FORMOSAT-7, the Triton satellite, and the soon-to-be-launched FORMOSAT-8, Taiwan has established itself as a credible force ...

The SpaceNews Icon Awards celebrate the year’s most iconic achievements in shaping the future of the space industry. Today, ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s concept shows how they range in size and composition, although scientists ...

NASA is celebrating a big milestone after the 6,000th exoplanet discovery was confirmed this week. Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets ...

Humans are finally building the technology that could tell us where to look, when to look, and what signs to watch for. What ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer.

SpaceX is aiming to launch its Falcon 9 rocket Monday evening for the KF-03 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape ...

In this week’s special CEO Series edition of Space Minds, we’re at the World Space Business Week in Paris. In today’s episode, SpaceNews editor Mike Gruss talks with Mina Mitry, CEO of Kepler ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

A Northrop Grumman cargo spacecraft on a resupply run to the International Space Station has been waylaid in orbit due to mechanical troubles. The uncrewed resupply mission, the 23rd commercial ...

On May 21, 2010, the Akatsuki orbiter ("Dawn" in Japanese) launched from the Tanegashima Space Center atop a H-IIA Launch Vehicle, establishing orbit around Venus in December 2015. In so doing, ...