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The contract is a continuation of a previous cooperation between ESA and Serco and could be extended up to five years, which would increase its total value to 66 million euros, Serco spokesman Adam Williams said. SpaceNe...

A recent funding round for SpaceX has made Elon Musk several billion dollars richer. SpaceX raised $351 million last month in a funding round that increased the company's valuation to more than $21 billion. That, in turn...

A recent study by a team of astronomers, using data provided by Hubble, has provided the best evidence to date of a stratosphere around an exoplanet. The post Hubble Eyes Stratosphere Around a Very Hot, Watery Jupiter! a...

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Virgin Galactic performed the latest glide flight of its second SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane Aug. 4, calling it a "dry run" for upcoming powered test flights. SpaceNews.com

Inflight connectivity startup SmartSky Networks has pushed back the start date for its terrestrial air-to-ground network from late this year to mid-2018, the company said Aug. 3. SpaceNews.com

Satellite fleet operator SES says it will retire the malfunctioning AMC-9 satellite a year early if it can regain control of the spacecraft. SpaceNews.com

Satellite antenna startup Phasor Solutions has completed full system testing of its electronically steered, phased-array antenna, and is now preparing for commercial release next year. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The star of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a galaxy known as NGC 4656, located in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs). However, it also has a somewhat...

A problem with the power regulator on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF)-4 satellite is forcing the U.S. Air Force to slip the launch of the satellite until the coming calendar year but the service says the del...

A new study led by researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center indicates that Proxima b would be likely to retain an Earth-like atmosphere. The post Bad News For Proxima b: An Earth-Like Atmosphere Might Not Surv...

The additional connectivity will be provided via SES's medium-Earth-orbit (MEO) O3b fleet as part of a high-throughput, low-latency satellite communications system SES GS is providing to the Pentagon, the company said. S...

Hardware from one of NASA's retired space shuttle orbiters had a critical role in landing the Curiosity Mars rover.

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Flight 19 will soon cease transmitting weather data after nearly three and a half years of operational service, the U.S. Air Force said.

Vector, a company developing the Vector-R small launch vehicle, carried out what it said was a second successful low-altitude test flight of the rocket from a Georgia site Aug. 3.

A little satellite named after the mythological Norse god of the dawn will be sent into orbit in August and carry along six technologies -- one of which is smaller than a fingernail -- to collect data about the Earth's a...

Virgin Galactic performed the latest glide flight of its second SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane Aug. 4, calling it a "dry run" for upcoming powered test flights.

When New Horizons flies by Kuiper belt object MU69 in 2019, it may find two space rocks rather than one --

Rigel is the brightest star in Orion, and will eventually explode into a supernova, most astronomers say.

On July 5, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory watched an active region--an area of intense and complex magnetic fields--rotate into view on the Sun. The satellite continued to track the region as it grew and eventua...

"Inside neutron stars there may be exotic states of matter unlike anything realized anywhere else in the universe," said Daniel Kasen, a scientist in the Nuclear Science Division at Berkeley Lab and associate professor o...

When a total solar eclipse sweeps across U.S. skies on Monday, Aug. 21, UMass Lowell faculty and students will be stationed around the country, conducting research that will be used to better predict the weather and impr...