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LOS ANGELES—Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit reached space on Sunday, eight months after the first demonstration flight of its air-launched rocket system failed, the company said. A 70-foot-long LauncherOne rocket was ...

The CSIRO took less than two weeks to map three million galaxies using the Australian Square Kilometre Array ...

Britain has announced an extra £24.1 billion ($31.8 billion) in military spending, as part of the country’s biggest ...

Russia and China have weaponized space and pulled far ahead of America in the space race, says geopolitical ...

The United States needs to invest a trillion dollars in space technology over the next decade, according to ...

The British government pledged a million pounds ($1.3 million) on Wednesday to tackle dangerous “space junk,” which could ...

Britain is putting space at the heart of its defense in order to counter threats from China and ...

U.S. Space Command says Russia has carried out a test of a "nesting doll" anti-satellite weapon in space, ...

Astronomers have discovered two super-Earth exoplanets orbiting a star 11 light-years away from Earth, according to a new ...

Former NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes the first woman to reach the lowest point on Earth.

The Earth's magnetic field is weakening between Africa and South America, causing problems for spacecraft and satellites, scientists ...

The U.S. Air Force launched its high-tech reusable drone X-37B, also known as an Orbital Test Vehicle, from ...

Congress should do more to block funds and know-how from finding their way into Chinese space programs, according ...

RECIFE, Brazil—On his first official visit to the United States in March 2019, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced, ...

President Donald Trump established the United States Space Command in August 2019. The Space Command is headed by ...

Gen. John Raymond, leader of the U.S. Space Command—a precursor to the yet-to-be-established Space Force—outlined on Nov. 18 ...

WASHINGTON—Vice President Mike Pence said that the U.S. Space Force will soon be a reality and positioned it ...

President Donald Trump spoke to two NASA astronauts via video conference on Oct. 18 to praise them for ...

ZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakhstan—An American, a Russian and the first person from the United Arab Emirates to fly into space ...

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall is over the moon that Australia will support the U.S. space project, saying ...

The lead actor in a soon-to-be-released space drama film will examine the experiences of astronauts who live and ...

News Analysis The first strategy report following President Donald Trump's launch of the U.S. Space Command warns that China ...

BEIJING—A rocket developed by iSpace put satellites into orbit after a launch from a state facility in northwestern ...

China carried out a controlled de-orbiting of its Tiangong-2 space lab on July 19 that splashed into the South Pacific ...

LONGUEUIL, QB.—Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says returning to normal life after his six-month stint aboard the International Space ...