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Satellite manufacturers are trying to figure out how to maximize their share of the electric propulsion market while not abandoning more conservative customers. SpaceNews.com

The 10 companies and six individuals targeted by Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control are alleged to have continued to conduct business with North Korea in violation of United Nations' sanctions aimed at preventin...

Made In Space is changing the way people plan for spaceflight missions by demonstrating that tools, spare parts and spaceflight hardware can be manufactured in orbit. The company is building Archinaut, a sophisticated 3-...

This composite image, made from seven frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second during a partial solar eclipse, Monday, Aug. 21, 20...

A new study of the "Rusty Rocks" returned by the Apollo 16 mission suggest that the Moon's interior is very dry, contrary to what recent studies have claimed The post Study of Moon Rocks Suggest Interior of the Moon is R...

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, who are making final preparations for a Sept. 12 launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews at 7 and 9 a.m. EDT, respectively,...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is eager to compare its near-term needs with the capabilities of companies that obtain data from small satellites or have innovative ways of using space-based data to make sens...

Armed with eclipse glasses, solar binoculars and random kitchen implements, Team Lewin set out to find the best way to look at Aug. 21's total solar eclipse.

Mars may experience snowstorms at night, a new study finds, suggesting that the Martian atmosphere is far more active than previously thought.

Shiveluch, one of the world's most active volcanoes, is seen poking through above a solid cloud deck, with an ash plume streaming to the west....

Helios Wire will use the money to pay for satellites to help customers track and communicate with billions of devices worldwide. SpaceNews.com

Many watchers of today's solar eclipse may have glanced at the sun without proper eye protection. But how do you know if you've hurt your eyes?

"The extinction of many of the large animals on land could have been caused by the immediate aftermath of the impact, but animals that lived in the oceans or those that could burrow underground or slip underwater tempora...

They came, they saw, they battled clouds, traffic and strange charger adapters in a strange land. Yesterday, millions stood in awe as the shadow of the Moon rolled over the contiguous United States for the first time in ...

Helios Wire, a satellite-enabled Internet of Things startup led by former UrtheCast founder and chief executive Scott Larson, announced Aug. 21 that it closed a $4 million funding round.

Fu Zhiheng, executive vice president of Beijing-based China Great Wall Industry Corp. , speaks with SpaceNews about his company's global ambitions. SpaceNews.com

"Our experiments are also providing us with better insights into the structure of exoplanets," says Dominik Kraus, who is the head of a Helmholtz Junior Research Group at HZDR. Researchers can measure two main metrics in...

Today - Solar Eclipse Viewing: The crew removed scratch panes from Cupola windows #4 and #6 and cleaned the window #3 scratch pane....

Imagine you're on your way to Mars, and you lose a crucial tool during a spacewalk. Not to worry, you'll simply re-enter your spacecraft and use some microorganisms to convert your urine and exhaled carbon dioxide (CO2) ...

Museum experts criticized Ray Bradbury's rejected planetarium script, written in 1981 for the National Air and Space Museum, for its unscientific and overly poetic language.

(Phys.org)--Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), a team of astronomers has detected methanol emission toward a nearby galaxy known as NGC 4945. The finding, reported Aug. 18 in a paper published on arXiv.o...

ESA astronauts Matthias Maurer and Samantha Cristoforetti participate in Chinese sea survival training