As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and discovered many Earth-sized and smaller planets, some of them in the habitable zone where liquid water, and therefore life as we know it, could exist.
Two flagship space telescopes are returning to their respective operations after they both entered safe…
Arianespace has conducted the opening part of the BepiColombo mission with the launch of the spacecraft…
United Launch Alliance’s workhorse Atlas V rocket launched an advanced communications satellite for the US…
The Carnegie Institution for Science and the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center has announced…
The Japanese asteroid sampling mission Hayabusa2 – launched on December 3, 2014 aboard an H-IIA…
A new milestone for the future of United Launch Alliance’s rockets was conducted by Northrop…
The joint NASA / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS,…
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket has launched two British satellites into a 583…
After twenty-nine years of reliable service, United Launch Alliance’s veteran Delta II rocket made its…
When United Launch Alliance’s final Delta II rocket deploys NASA’s ICESat-II satellite on Saturday, the…
As the end of its launch campaign for the Iridium NEXT constellation nears, Iridium Communications…
The Pegasus launch of NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite is now set to take…
A mission nearly 60 years in the making has launched on a historic flight to…
For the first time in human exploration of Mars, the presence of a stable, subterranean…
Just over two weeks after their previous launch, SpaceX is again preparing their Falcon 9…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is in its final, home-stretch of processing prior to its scheduled…
Cape Canaveral’s LC-17 has been leveled after the demolition of its two service towers on…
With the first half of 2018 in the books, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance’s near…
The CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) spacecraft has completed integration work at Airbus’ Madrid-Barajas site and is…