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Satellite fleet operator Intelsat on Feb. 22 said it had hired Guggenheim Securities to assess unspecified "financing and balance-sheet initiatives" that company officials stressed was not a prelude a merger or acquisiti...

In the category of why-didn't-I think-of-that ideas, Dr. Geoffrey Evatt and colleagues from the University of Manchester struck upon a brilliant hypothesis: that a layer of iron meteories might lurk just below the surfac...

Pentagon leaders say a new ground system for the next-generation of GPS satellites, one that has stymied Air Force officials and led to expensive cost overruns, is the Defense Department's most troubled acquisition progr...

Satellites aren't small or cheap. The Solar Dynamics Observatory launched by NASA in 2010 weighs about 6,800 pounds and cost $850 million to build and put into orbit.

Canadian Space Agency:

Recent news stories claim that Apollo astronauts reported hearing strange music during their mission. NASA has debunked this claim with a statement issued today....

There the things we know, the things we don’t know, and the things we can’t know. How do we know which one is when when we’re deciding to fund research and direct our scientific inquiry. Visit the Astronomy Cast Pa...

NASA has made public a recording of strange "music" that astronauts reported hearing in 1969 while on the far side of the Moon, out of radio contact with the Earth.

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers continue exploring gravitational waves in a series of upcoming papers. Their reports follow the first direct detection of these waves, predicted by Albert Einstein's general ...

In 2013 an international team of astronomers discovered that Milky Way galaxy "wobbles." In addition to the regular Galactic rotation the scientists found the Milky Way moving perpendicular to the Galactic plane. The Mil...

Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union launched the core module for the space station Mir. Mir was the first modular space station assembled in orbit, finally completed in 1996.

Look to the skies tonight and tomorrow to see Jupiter and the full moon close together.

NASA is sticking to the 2030s timeline for now, and one way it is promoting it is by letting you stroll on the Red Planet in virtual reality.

"The launch of Hitomi represents the beginning of a new era for X-ray observatories," says Roger Blandford from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), a joint institute of Stanford Universit...

On Friday, Richard Branson unveiled Virgin Galactic's newest rocket plane: SpaceShipTwo, called the VSS Unity. Virgin Galactic is one of several companies that want to take humans to space. The flight plan is pretty dram...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Monday's briefing begins with NASA receiving a record number of applicants for 8-14 astronaut jobs, plus a look at the week ahead. SpaceNews.com

"Having a more sensitive telescope, we can receive weaker and more distant radio messages," Wu Xiangping, director-general of the Chinese Astronomical Society, said of the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FA...

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly's final news conference from orbit will air live on NASA Television at 12:05 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 25.

The Expedition 46 crew took out the trash today when it released the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft from the grips of the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm. In less than two weeks, another spacecraft wil...

Astronomers have discovered a spectacular tail of gas more than 300,000 light years across coming from a nearby galaxy that is made up of hydrogen gas--the material new stars are made of--and is five times longer than th...

I hope you're sitting down, because my goal here is to reduce your brain to a small pile of gibbering goo. Luckily, I have help. Behold, the Tarantula Nebula! Holy WOW. This composite image by Robert Gendler and Roberto ...