Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. COLORADO SPRINGS — Despite ongoing trade disputes and disagreements between ...

Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, speaks April 9 at the 40th Space Symposium. Credit: Thomas Kimmell Photography Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every ...

"Mind-boggling" is the word Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman used to describe China’s explosive advances in space as he warned the U.S. is on a path to losing its dominance in orbit. Testifying ...

A Pakistani astronaut will become the first foreign national aboard China’s Tiangong space station, as Beijing steps up space diplomacy amid a burgeoning battle with the United States for ...

The U.S. Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as the cosmic equivalent of an aircraft carrier. Appropriately known as an "orbital carrier," the ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has been awarded $2.4 billion in the U.S. Space Force’s latest round of procurement for future national security launches. “It’s an honor and huge ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

"We call these weapons, and we need them to deter a space conflict and to be successful if we end up in such a fight." COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — It all goes back to Ronald Reagan. At the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—A Space Force program that buys commercial satellite imagery and analytics has seen success across combatant commands—and with a plus-up from Congress, the service ...

Read full article: WATCH LIVE at 9:52 p.m.: SpaceX rockets more Starlink satellites into space China's Long March 2F rocket, carrying three astronauts for the Shenzhou 20 manned space mission ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...