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Satellite fleet operator Intelsat kicked off the beginning of a partial constellation replenishment focused on replacing the company's Galaxy line of satellites with a Jan. 8 order to Orbital ATK for the Galaxy-30 satell...

SpaceX successfully launched a classified payload on a Falcon 9 Jan. 7, starting what is planned to be the busiest year yet for the launch provider. SpaceNews.com

After delivering more than 4,800 pounds of science and supplies to the International Space Station, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft will depart the orbiting laboratory on Saturday, Jan. 13. NASA will provide live covera...

This year, a number of companies will begin deploying constellations of internet satellites to space with the intent of providing global internet The post This is the Year Internet From Space Gets Really Serious appeared...

Saturn's rings, made of countless icy particles, form a translucent veil in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft....

America's space program has long held a special place in the public's imagination, but NASA missions are limited by budget constraints. NASA must use its funding wisely to implement balanced, cost-efficient programs to d...

NASA's Juno spacecraft was a little more than one Earth diameter from Jupiter when it captured this mind-bending, color-enhanced view of the planet's tumultuous atmosphere....

SpaceX launched the classified payload for customer Northrup Grumman Sunday evening at 8:00 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida....

Media are invited to view the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S), the second in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) series of next-generation geostationary weather sat...

"Perhaps Earth was lucky to see technology arise (in the spirit of the novel Origin by Dan Brown)," observes Avi Loeb, chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University, founding director of Harvard's Black Hole In...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Atmospheric and space scientists gathering at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society this week will be sharing information on a wide range of topics, including future government a...

The odd tubular structures that NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been investigating lately were probably formed by crystal growth, not tiny burrowing creatures, mission team members said.

"The unique combination of a star almost identical to the Sun, except for the chemical composition, with a cycle that has been observed from both the Kepler spacecraft and from ground makes this star a Rosetta Stone for ...

"Modern metabolism has a precursor, a template, that was non-biological," says Greg Springsteen, first author of the new study at Furman University. Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a fasc...

A brief look at "America's spaceport," which is in a period of transition after the space shuttle's 2011 retirement.

The U.S. government's hush-hush Zuma satellite may have run into some serious problems during or shortly after its Sunday launch (Jan. 7), according to media reports.

"Strange Signals Have Been Detected" --China Aims to Be First to Discover an Alien Technological Civilization (A 2017 Most Viewed) "Planet Earth Report" --Mount Saint Helens is Acting Wacky, Earth is Being Observed, Tech...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, an international team of researchers has studied the disc surrounding the star MWC 758. The new observations reveal further insights into the complex morphology o...

This image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows a galaxy named UGC 6093. As can be easily seen, UGC 6093 is something known as a barred spiral galaxy--it has beautiful arms...

Backers of NASA's next great observatory contemplate its worst-case scenarios.

NASA scientists have built a flexible tire made of metal that springs back to its original shape after being bent or deformed. The tire could be used on Mars or even on Earth.

Scientists gathering this week for the country's largest astronomy meeting will discuss plans for future space telescopes, while raising questions about the status of upcoming missions. SpaceNews.com