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Mobile satellite services provider Iridium is willing to use pre-flown Falcon 9 first stage boosters for the second half of its fleet replacement if SpaceX can show that reuse will shorten Iridium's wait for launches. Sp...

By combining the power of a "natural lens" in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery--the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped ga...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Artificial intelligence is changing how we study Mars. A.I. software on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has helped it zap dozens of laser targets on the Red Planet this pas...

SES says its 14-year-old satellite that malfunctioned and strayed from its orbit over the weekend poses no collision or interference danger to other satellites in the vicinity. SpaceNews.com

"We are heavily dependent on space, and our adversaries know it. In any future conflict, space will be contested," Heather Wilson, who was sworn in last month as the 24th secretary of the U.S. Air Force, told a Capitol H...

The ESA recently decided to move forward with its LISA mission, a trio of satellites that will be the first space-based gravitational wave detector. The post LISA is On! Gravitational Wave Detection is Going to Space app...

When Apollo astronauts on the Moon spoke with Mission Control on Earth, there was a noticeable time gap between a statement from Tranquility Base and its immediate acknowledgment from Houston. The gap lasted almost three...

It isn't every day we get a new moon added to the list of solar system satellites. The combined observational power of three observatories--Kepler, Herschel and Hubble--led an astronomical detective tale to its climatic ...

For the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse will occur across the entire continental United States, and NASA is preparing to share this experience of a lifetime on Aug. 21.

An analysis of nearly 3,500 known exoplanets shows that planets in our galaxy overwhelmingly fall into two groups.

Historical accounts of bright nights go back centuries. Pliny the Elder described bright nights, saying, "The phenomenon commonly called 'nocturnal sun', i.e. a light emanating from the sky during the night, has been see...

The Multiple User System for Earth Sensing Facility (MUSES) will inspire and enable numerous branches of research and science through its ability to support many different kinds of investigations and hardware aboard the ...

Glavkosmos Director General Denis Lyskov said at the Paris Air Show Tuesday that future missions could fly two tourists and one professional cosmonaut, possibly visiting the ISS. SpaceNews.com

To celebrate the summer solstice and look ahead to the biggest astronomical event this year: the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse, the Slooh online community observatory will host a webcast today (June 21).

Replay: Panel discussion with leaders of industries and institutions on potential of space technology, applications and services for commercial purposes

The United Nations has declared 30 June to be International Asteroid Day, and ESA is joining other space agencies, astronauts, scientists and even rock stars for a 24-hour global telethon.

Alan Fitzsimmons from the Queen's University Belfast Astrophysics Research Center has said it is a case of when an asteroid collision will happen, rather than if it will happen. In 1908, a small asteroid exploded over Tu...

A leading astrophysicist from Queen's University Belfast has warned that an asteroid strike is just a matter of time. Joined by scientist Brian Cox and astronauts such as Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Internat...

Stars exploding as supernovae are the main sources of heavy chemical elements in the Universe. In particular, radioactive atomic nuclei are synthesized in the hot, innermost regions during the explosion and can thus serv...

A NASA-led and NASA-sponsored study of potential future missions to the mysterious "ice giant" planets Uranus and Neptune (above) has been released--the first in a series of mission studies NASA will conduct in support o...

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, has released new details of his vision to colonise parts of the solar system, including Mars, Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. His gung ho plans - designed to...

Magali Vassiere, Director of Telecom and Integrated Applications, discusses added value that satellite brings in the context of 5G