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With the new financing, Ursa plans to expand its customer base for products related to the global oil and gas industry, while continuing to develop the machine vision and machine learning algorithms it uses to create new...

While additive manufacturing is changing the way spacecraft are built, more innovation will come from combining advanced manufacturing tools with new materials and design strategies. SpaceNews.com

Forced to find nearly $30 million in cost savings, NASA's astrophysics program has trimmed budget reserves on one mission approaching launch and delayed the schedule of another. SpaceNews.com

The European Union might ban the use of the toxic satellite propellant hydrazine as early as 2021, which would present a major setback for the block's space industry. SpaceNews.com

The glow from this titanic collision, shining within the galaxy NGC 4993 is at a distance of 130 million light-years away....

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will wait until next spring to begin a second round of a commercial satellite weather data pilot program as it wraps up the analysis of the program's initial round. Spa...

With its economic ties to Japan and China, in addition to its bond with the British Commonwealth and the citizens of the United States, Australia is ready to co-write the next chapter of the New Space Age. SpaceNews.com

A new study by an astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research shows that the first exomoon ever discovered could actually be a gas giant moon! The post Neptune-Sized Exomoon Found Orbiting a J...

A very small, low cost, visible imagery satellite that soldiers in the field will be able to control, giving them access to real-time intelligence. SpaceNews.com

A new study led by Princeton University shows that water worlds are likely to be stripped of their atmospheres (and most of their water) before too long The post Water Worlds Don’t Stay Wet for Very Long appeared first...

A big unanswered question in astronomy is the nature of the source Fast Radio Bursts: What powers these bursts and are there other ones that repeat? "We think it may be a magnetar - a newborn neutron star with a...   �...

Google's experimental high-altitude balloon project is using connectivity from O3b satellites to provide emergency communications in hurricane-ravished Puerto Rico.

Vector, an Arizona-based company that has done test flights from California and Georgia, announced Oct. 19 it plans to make its first orbital launch from a Virginia site as soon as next summer.

More than 500 years ago, a fierce storm sank a ship carrying the earliest known marine astrolabe -- a device that helped sailors navigate at sea, new research finds.

Downloads of the physicist’s 1966 doctoral thesis overwhelm University of Cambridge servers --

Today - Extravehicular Mobility Unit Loop Scrub: Today, the crew configured Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suits 3003 and 3008 for loop scrubbing....

During the first year after Curiosity's landing near Mount Sharp, the mission accomplished a major goal by determining that, billions of years ago, a Martian lake offered conditions that would have been favorable for mic...

If Europe wants to take a lead role in this necessarily global endeavor, it needs to step up its game, Rolf Densing, head of the European Space Agency's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) said Oct. 25 at Space Tech ...

Countless galaxies vie for attention in this monster image of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster, some appearing only as pinpricks of light while others dominate the foreground. One of these is the lenticular galaxy NGC 1316. The...

The geologic record can sometimes provide clear-cut evidence of epoch changes. For example, when a meteorite collided with Earth 66 million years ago, levels of the metal iridium from the space rock spiked in sediments a...

Ariane 5 is one of the world's most reliable launcher but its makers aren't resting on their laurels. Following the 2015 creation of Airbus Safran Launchers, a joint venture between the two main contributors to the Europ...

This year's Atlantic hurricane season has been a harsh reminder of the grief and devastation brought by these vast storms. Imaging the top of hurricanes from space is nothing new, but the Sentinel-1 satellites can see ri...