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In the very last second before liftoff Sunday, SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket to send a communications satellite into orbit, marking the third delay since last week.

Our Feb. 29 cover story, "Intelsat's Epic wager," SpaceNews Paris Bureau Chief Peter B. de Selding examines Intelsat's new Epic satellite series and what it represents to the company. The story features a hard-hitting in...

Although Tethys and Janus both orbit Saturn and are both made of more or less the same materials, they are very different worlds. Their contrasts are related, in large part, to their sizes....

Satellite fleet operator Thaicom on Feb. 26 reported record profit for 2015 as its conventional satellites booked more television channels, including an increase in high-definition broadcasts, and its Thaicom 7 satellite...

Use your telescopes to view Jupiter in the eastern skies in the evening. Saturn and Mars are visible after midnight. On March 8th, a total solar eclipse will be visible over parts of Asia, Indonesia and more.

Freelance animator and storyboard artist Stanley VonMedvey has started using his remarkable talents to create short videos to explain a pretty complex topic: how spacecraft work. He's made two so far and they are wonderf...

NASA scientists are closer to solving the mystery of how Mars' moon Phobos formed.

NASA's Technology Transfer program will host events on March 9 and 10 in the El Paso, Texas, area and Las Cruces, New Mexico, to discuss how students and entrepreneurs can capitalize on NASA's technology research and dev...

With its current flagship space competition set to end in less than two years, the X Prize Foundation is starting the planning for its next space-related challenge. SpaceNews.com

Last week we talked about knowledge, what we do and don't know. This week we talk about questions which are impossible to ask, where the answers don't actually exist. Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the aud...

Monday's briefing begins with a former SpaceX executive joining launch startup Rocket Lab, plus a look at the week ahead. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA's award of a contract for the preliminary design of a "low boom" flight demonstration aircraft. This is the first in a series of 'X-pl...

This ethereal scene captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft tells yet another story of Pluto's diversity of geological and compositional featuresthis time in an enhanced color image of the north polar area....

An international team of scientists using a combination of radio and optical telescopes identified the distant location of a fast radio burst (FRB) for the first time. This discovery has allowed them to confirm the curre...

This video will make you wonder if a year in free-fall finally got to him... --

The cold and dry conditions on Mars open the possibility that evidence for life may be found below the surface where negative effects of radiation are mitigated, in the form of organic molecules known as biomarkers. But ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy lies about 27,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation of Sagittarius. At its core is a black hole about four million solar masses in size. Around the black hole is a....

"The Martian" was left stranded without any Oscars on Sunday night (Feb. 28) at the 88th Academy Awards.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

This article is a modified and updated version of one I wrote in--oddly enough--2008 and then updated for 2012. Barring a colossal asteroid impact or a Trump presidency, I'll probably be around to do it in 2020, too. But...

The company, funded by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is quietly working to bring astronauts to and from the International Space Station.