Space News

The European Space Agency on Feb. 8 announced five companies will study potential small launch vehicles for the agency's Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP). SpaceNews.com

Watching a bubble float effortlessly through the International Space Station may be mesmerizing and beautiful to witness, but that same bubble is also teaching researchers about how fluids behave differently in micrograv...

As the administration prepares to release a fiscal year 2019 budget proposal that may call for ending International Space Station operations in the mid-2020s, advocates for the station in Congress and industry are making...

Sometime in the 20th century a theory arose, claiming that the famous inventor Nikola Tesla was actually contacted by a 13,000 year old alien artifact in orbit around Earth, an object which has since become known as the ...

Planet and Spire, operators of the two largest commercial cubesat constellations in orbit, say they manage their fleets to prevent retired spacecraft from lingering in space beyond internationally accepted guidelines. Sp...

In the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a team of astronomers recently searched through the Kepler field to look for signatures of technologically-advanced civilizations. The post Researchers Just Scanne...

Satellite fleet operator SES has agreed to join Intelsat on an amended proposal to let 5G networks use some of the satellite industry's coveted C-band spectrum for next-generation cellular systems in the United States. S...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has begun extra stargazing to help the space agency accomplish advances in Mars exploration over the next decade....

It’s that time again! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has begun extra stargazing to help the space agency accomplish advances in Mars exploration over the next decade.

The Tesla Roadster and its mannequin driver that launched into space aboard SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday (Feb. 6), has been spotted by a telescope on the ground.

Winter is shrinking in places like Hayward, Wis., reports the New York Times, a town of 2,300 that swells to more than 12,000 people in late February during the American Birkebeiner, North America's largest cross-country...

The Tesla Roadster that launched aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6 has been assigned an interplanetary ID number by NASA.

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over the Atlantic Ocean close to Spain and Portugal where the sky not only features clouds but also criss-cross tracks from maritime vessels....

A Russian cargo craft is getting ready to roll out to its launch pad for a Sunday morning lift-off to resupply the International Space Station and the Expedition 54 crew....

New observations of a supermassive black hole in a faraway galaxy hint that planets are plentiful throughout the universe --

"It's almost like there was a speed limit for 100 million years," says Ross Mitchell, a geologist at Curtin University in Australia. The planet's plates slowed to a snail's pace, its mountains were cut short and its volc...

An asteroid bigger than a city bus is on track to zoom by Earth Friday at a safe but close distance, less than one-fifth as far away as the Moon, NASA said.

The growth of crypto was a theme at the Space Tech Summit conference. It was a new, and puzzling, experience for some in the space industry, for whom ICO is a failed communications satellite venture and not "Initial Coin...

"We now know for sure that turbulent dynamo exists, and that it's one of the mechanisms that can actually explain magnetization of the universe," said Petros Tzeferacos, research assistant professor of astronomy and astr...

Our week through the lens: 5-9 February 2018