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The White House’s core space policy body will be led by Chirag Parikh, a veteran intelligence official and senior director for Microsoft’s space-based cloud services, Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Monday.

Microsoft director with intelligence background to lead White House’s space council

August 2, 2021

Russia’s space agency blamed a “short-term software failure” for yesterday’s engine mishap with its new science module.

Russia blames software glitch for misfired engines that shoved ISS

July 30, 2021

The Nauka (Science) Multipurpose Laboratory Module is seen docked to the International Space Station (ISS) next to Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on July 29, 2021. Picture taken July 29, 2021. Oleg Novitskiy/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT.

Russian space module misfire mishap knocks ISS out of position

July 30, 2021

A general view of the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket booster at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States April 5, 2017. REUTERS-Isaiah J. Downing-File Photo

Jeff Bezos, world’s richest man, lifts off on inaugural space voyage

July 20, 2021

Staff of department of fish studies at the National Museum of Kenya on Nov. 19, 2001, display a coelacanth fish weighing 77 kilograms and measuring 1.7 metres caught by Kenyan fishermen at the coastal town of Malindi in April 2001. REUTERS/George Mulala/File Photo

Fish once labeled a ‘living fossil’ surprises scientists again

June 18, 2021

A fountain in Leipzig, Germany on June 18, 2021 - Photo by Sebastian Willnow-picture alliance via Getty Images

Earth trapping heat at an alarming new rate – study

June 18, 2021

Chinese scientists developing inhalable coronavirus vaccine

June 5, 2021

China’s Zhurong rover has beamed back its first images from the surface of Mars after landing on a vast plain called Utopia Planitia. The rover plunged through the Martian atmosphere last Friday, bundled together with a lander after separating from China’s Tianwen-1 probe.

China releases first images from its Zhurong rover on Mars

May 19, 2021

China's probe to Mars touched down on the Red Planet early Saturday to deploy its Zhurong rover, state media reported, a triumph for Beijing's increasingly bold space ambitions and a history-making feat for a nation on its first-ever Martian mission.

NASA congratulates China on successful landing of spacecraft on Mars

May 16, 2021

China's probe to Mars touched down on the Red Planet early Saturday to deploy its Zhurong rover, state media reported, a triumph for Beijing's increasingly bold space ambitions and a history-making feat for a nation on its first-ever Martian mission.

China lands unmanned spacecraft on Mars for first time

May 15, 2021

China’s Long March 5B rocket lifting off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on April 29. Matjaz Tancic-EPA, via Shutterstock

Large Chinese rocket segment disintegrates over Indian Ocean

May 9, 2021

SpaceX launched its third crew of astronauts to the International Space Station early Friday morning, reusing a Crew Dragon space capsule to fly humans for the first time. The mission, dubbed Crew-2, is the latest flight under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and will add four more astronauts to the orbital space station.

Astronauts arrive at space station aboard SpaceX Endeavour

April 24, 2021

SpaceX launched its third crew of astronauts to the International Space Station early Friday morning, reusing a Crew Dragon space capsule to fly humans for the first time. The mission, dubbed Crew-2, is the latest flight under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and will add four more astronauts to the orbital space station.

SpaceX launches its third astronaut crew, the first on a used Crew Dragon capsule

April 23, 2021

Bejing will announce the name of its first Mars rover on the Space Day of China, which falls on April 24, according to authorities on Monday.

China to announce name of its first Mars rover

April 19, 2021

Facebook converts Menlo Park headquarters into vaccination site

April 11, 2021