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While project officials promoted the progress they had made in the last year, they couldn't avoid the fact that JWST's launch had slipped from October 2018 to sometime between March and June 2019. SpaceNews.com

A U.S. Federal Communications Commission requirement that developers of non-geostationary-orbit (NGSO) satellite systems provide full coverage of the United States to get market access has prospective megaconstellation o...

See the rare Super Blue Blood Moon total lunar eclipse of Jan. 31, 2018 in photos.

(Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)) When illuminating with LED light, chemists at ICIQ generated carbynes, a highly reactive chemical species that allowed them to modify drugs like anticancer paclitaxel,...

(Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)) This project, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is collaborating, has made a map with 300 galaxies close to the Milky Way, which they have classified o...

The technologies military organizations use in the field and at sea are only as effective as the communications infrastructure working in the background. SpaceNews.com

Researchers at Penn State are developing methods of turning human waste into food. And microbes, not plants, would provide the food. The post Microbes May Help Astronauts Turn Human Waste Into Food appeared first on Univ...

NASA has confirmed that their missing IMAGE satellite was indeed located by an amateur astronomer in Canada. But re-establishing contact with the long-lost satellite will be a demanding technical challenge. The post Now ...

The identity of the satellite re-discovered on Jan. 20, 2018, has been confirmed as NASA's IMAGE satellite.

We now know that all extant living creatures derive from a single common ancestor, called LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor. It's hard to think of a more unifying view of life. All living creatures are linked to a...

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Spanish IT company Indra will assist Barcelona-based Zero 2 Infinity in developing and promoting balloon-enabled systems for reaching the stratosphere and low Earth orbit. SpaceNews.com

Blue Origin, which is run by billionaire Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, successfully conducted a test-fire this month of the BE-4 rocket engine that will power the company's massive New Glenn rocket, which is slated to l...

Our species has long agonized over the concept of human consciousness. What exactly causes it, and why did we evolve to experience consciousness? Now, a new study has uncovered a clue in the hunt for answers, and it reve...

The second full moon of January passed through Earth's shadow in a Super Blue Blood Moon eclipse today (Jan. 31), a rare lunar sight visible to millions of observers around the world.

NASA's Earth Observing System is a collection of satellites that monitor the planet's climate system over an extended period.

Former astronaut Terry Virts; "The kind of person who learns how to fly an airplane and drop bombs is different than one who learns to fly spaceships." SpaceNews.com

Akash Systems, a San Francisco startup that sells RF power amplifiers for satellites, announced Jan. 30 it has raised $3.1 million in seed round funding, which it plans to use to develop its own line of cubesats. SpaceNe...

Satellite images of Earth can evoke both awe and complacency. We have a duty, therefore, to take a second look at any such photo that can be our greatest means of humility and our grandest moment of hope.

"Theory predicts that these stars could form just after, and using material from, the first supernovae, whose progenitors were the first massive stars in the Galaxy, around 300 million years after the Big Bang" says Jona...

The moon put on a rare cosmic show Wednesday: a red blue moon, super big and super bright.

Filipinos sheltering from the erupting Mayon volcano gasped in delight as an orange full-moon eclipse shone above the mountain's smouldering crater Wednesday in what was both a once-in-a-lifetime double spectacle and a r...