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Humanity's next giant leap could be enabled by nuclear thermal propulsion, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said.

When a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launches from Kazakhstan for the International Space Station Wednesday, it will carry a humanoid robot called Skybo F-850.

Elon Musk is an entrepreneur best known in space circles for launching SpaceX, the first private company to ship cargo to the International Space Station.

The United States Space Command will officially be up and running by the end of the month, Vice President Mike Pence said today (Aug. 20) at a meeting of the National Space Council.

A nearby, rocky exoplanet may be just a plain rock with no atmosphere — supporting a theory that planets orbiting small stars are more susceptible to lacking an atmosphere.

NASA has called for companies to submit proposals to create spacecraft that will deliver cargo to the lunar gateway.

India's Chandrayaan-2 mission has ticked off another key milestone in its journey to land safely on the moon: The spacecraft has successfully entered lunar orbit.

On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. See how it happened in our "On This Day in Space" video series!

Researchers at LIGO and Virgo may have detected a gravitational-wave signal from the merger between a black hole and neutron star. This would be a major first.

A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket will send Astrobotic's Peregrine lander on its way toward Earth's nearest neighbor two years from now.

The National Space Council (NSC) will convene for the sixth time today morning (Aug. 20), and you can watch the proceedings live.

The spacesuit-clad mannequin, who sits behind the wheel of SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster, launched into space on Feb. 6, 2018, on the inaugural flight of the huge Falcon Heavy rocket.

Vice President Mike Pence will convene the latest meeting of the National Space Council today, Aug. 20, and you can watch it live here.

In a new video, former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino unboxes and assembles a new, NASA-inspired Lego set in zero gravity.

The private Smart Dragon-1 rocket, built by the China Rocket Co. Ltd., completed its first mission Saturday (Aug. 17), successfully launching three small satellites to Earth orbit, Chinese media outlets reported.

It's time to talk about Apophis again, I guess. Please calm down first.

Kerbal Space Program 2 has been announced with new features, new planets and, perhaps most surprisingly of all, a new developer.

A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched a new communications satellite into orbit today (Aug. 19) — but there appears to be a problem with the satellite.

Rocket Lab's Electron mission dubbed "Look Ma, No Hands" blasted off smoothly today from a pad in mountainous New Zealand, funny name and all.

The first astronauts assigned to launch on Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft now have a mission patch to represent their flight.