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Two commercial satellites have been placed in orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket but have yet to reach their correct position, Arianespace said Thursday, after mission control briefly lost contact with the craft in a rare malfu...

The two satellites that launched Thursday evening on an Ariane 5 are in orbit and communicating with the ground despite a harrowing loss of telemetry after the rocket's upper stage ignited. SpaceNews.com

A Delaware jury awarded $4.1 million in cash and Moon Express equity to Intuitive Machines, a Houston-based company Moon Express hired to write flight software and develop a terrestrial return vehicle for its commercial ...

NASA's InSight lander will launch in May 2018, NASA has announced. InSight will study the interior structure of Mars to learn how it, and other rocky planets, formed and evolved. The post NASA’s Insight Lander Spreads ...

Extended spaceflight takes a toll on many systems within the human body, including the musculoskeletal system. An investigation aboard the International Space Station will examine a drug compound and drug delivery system...

Two satellites placed into incorrect orbits by an Ariane 5 that suffered an anomaly during its Jan. 25 launch can be recovered and placed into their desired orbits, their operators said Jan. 26. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The satellite company SES confirmed that its SES-14 communications satellite, which hosts an upper-atmosphere-observation mission from NASA, will be able to reach its final orbit just four weeks late after a launch anoma...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

"There are a few things that make the solar system kind of strange." Lauren Weiss, an astrophysicist at the University of Montreal. "One of which is we have a giant planet. Only about 10 percent of sunlike stars have a.....

Can you feel the tremor in the Force? Early next Wednesday morning internet astro-memes collide, in one of the big ticket sky events of the year, with a total lunar eclipse dubbed as - get ready -- a Super Blue Blood Moo...

January 31st will be a busy day in the sky, as three skygazing events are occurring together. First, there's a total lunar eclipse--the first time the moon has been completely immersed in Earth's shadow since September 2...

Our week through the lens: 22-26 January 2018

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover and from the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz Universität Hannover has developed a...

Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan has been the launch site for Soviet and Russian space missions since the beginning of space exploration in 1957.

The White House's next budget request for NASA will likely include plans to end the agency's operations of the International Space Station by the mid-2020s, a plan that could create new opportunities for commercial space...

Triton has some peculiarities about its environment, including the fact that it orbits backward to Neptune's rotation and seems to have undergone a huge melt in the past.

You're a smart young woman who holds down a job and watches "Star Trek" as a hobby. Then the dream of a lifetime comes -- you have the chance to send a movie-length script into Paramount Studios for a "Star Trek" fan con...

Europa's surface may be extremely porous, so any probe that touches down there might sink into a sort of extraterrestrial quicksand, a new study suggests.

The successful launch of Rocket Lab's Electron rocket Jan. 20 also tested a kick stage designed to circularize the orbits of its satellite payloads.

Canada's Kepler Communications is one of 11 companies that has filed for FCC licenses for Ku- or Ka-band spectrum for non-geostationary orbit satellite services.

Some 150 million years ago in what is now Northern Bavaria, Archaeopteryx - the oldest bird species yet discovered ¬- inhabited a subtropical environment characterized by reef islands and lagoons set in a shallow sea th...