Bill establishing Maine Space Corp. signed into law

The public-private partnership will be charged with developing the Maine Space Complex and overseeing the launching of small satellites.

Space junk on 5,800-mph collision course with moon

An asteroid tracker says the object is likely the 3rd stage of a Chinese rocket that sent a test sample capsule to the moon and back in 2014, but China says the junk isn't theirs.

James Webb Space Telescope: An astronomer on the team explains how to send a giant telescope to space – and why

How the Hubble Space Telescope opened our eyes to the first galaxies of the universe

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached its destination, 1.5 million km from Earth. Here’s what happens next

All of Webb’s major spacecraft deployments, including the unfurling of the primary mirror and sunshield, were completed on January 8.

The James Webb Space Telescope will map the atmosphere of exoplanets

Space station remains at high risk from debris from Russian weapons test

NASA and the State Department have condemned the missile strike, saying it also puts satellites and China’s space station at risk.

Cosmic gulp: Astronomers see black hole swallow neutron star

The collision was more than one billion light-years away.

NASA releases Mars landing video: ‘Stuff of our dreams’

The Perseverance rover will spend the next two years exploring the dry river delta and drilling into rocks that may hold evidence of life.

Two black holes merged into a size astronomers have never before seen

The first ever discovered intermediate black hole, which is 142 times the mass of the sun, formed in a violent collision about 7 billion years ago.