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OneWeb said will go far beyond what international guidelines recommend to reduce the chance that its 720-satellite constellation will create orbital debris. SpaceNews.com

The French government, determined that its industry not lose out on what might be a large new business in building low-orbiting satellite communications constellations, has issued a request for bids to industry for ideas...

Protecting astronauts from radiation while in space is critical if humans are to continue exploring the space environment beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO). In July, StemRad Ltd an Israeli company based in Tel Aviv and Palo A...

Waking up hundreds of miles above the Himalayas, astronaut Scott Kelly broke the U.S. record Friday for the most time spent in space with 383 days.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Phenomenally durable crystals called zircons are used to date some of the earliest and most dramatic cataclysms of the solar system. One is the super-duty collision that ejected material from Earth to form the moon rough...

Author and PBS host Robert Lawrence Kuhn brings his unique, mind-bending questions to the Expert Voices platform.

A mysterious Russian satellite that spent five months parked between two Intelsat satellites left that location in late September and has now cozied up to a third Intelsat satellite. SpaceNews.com

With its terrific performance at the box office, The Martian joins Gravity and Interstellar in the club of science-fiction movies that succeed by emphasizing the science and downplaying the anything-goes fantasy elements...

40 years ago today, on October 16, 1975, NOAA's first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite was launched....

Forty-five years ago, NASA's final Saturn V rocket stage arrived back at its birthplace. It was moved by barge to its assembly facility outside of New Orleans after being test fired in Mississippi for a last time.

The fascinating speculation surrounding a recent Kepler observation of a star 1,500 light-years away has reignited questions of alien life in our universe and what it means for future studies.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Carolyn Porco is the leader of the Cassini Imaging Science team and the Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) at the Space Science Insti...

Let’s deal with the big question first. Has Planet Hunters discovered aliens? The answer is no. But that doesn’t mean that all of the press who have written about us in the last 48 hours, sending a flood of volunteer...

The future is morally complicated, visually spectacular and set on far-flung worlds -- complete with equally far-flung plotlines and awesome special effects -- in Syfy's new show "The Expanse," which premieres Dec. 14.

A new snapshot of Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, reveals details of the great planet. Scientists use images like this to determine wind speeds, identify atmospheric phenomena and even track changes in i...

Layoffs at DigitalGlobe -- OneWeb makes orbital debris promise -- SpaceX, Qualcomm reach agreement -- Remembering George Mueller SpaceNews.com

SpaceX on Oct. 16 said it had changed its return-to-flight plans and would first launch 11 small Orbcomm messaging satellites into low Earth orbit, and then test reignition of the redesigned second-stage engine during th...

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING):

George Mueller, who from 1963 to 1969 led NASA's manned space flight efforts through the first moon landing and who was credited as the "father of the space shuttle," died on Oct. 12 after a brief illness. He was 97.

George Mueller, who led NASA's human spaceflight efforts through the first moon landing and was credited as the "father of the space shuttle," died Oct. 12 after a brief illness. He was 97. SpaceNews.com

New Horizons has revealed a degree of diversity and complexity in the Pluto system that few expected in the frigid outer reaches of the solar system....