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Spaceflight Industries said March 6 that the first operational satellite for its BlackSky Earth imaging constellation is now complete and awaiting launch later this year. SpaceNews.com

Two telescopes due to launch this year should reveal a host of new exoplanets --

A SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment happened decades before Project Ozma -the pioneering SETI project started in 1960 by Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake, at the National Radio Astronom...

The ESA is working on artificially intelligent robots that could be controlled from a distance by astronauts. The pair could work as a team to accomplish maintenance and other tasks on future planetary missions. The post...

Karim Michel Sabbagh, president and CEO of satellite fleet operator SES, will return to the United Arab Emirates to lead a cybersecurity company headquartered there. SpaceNews.com

The Polish Space Agency is currently consulting on its draft National Space Program under which it aims to spend close to 1.43 billion Polish zloty ($420 million) over an eight-year period. SpaceNews.com

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of a NASA spacecraft that will search for planets outside of our solar system with a field of view almost 400 times larger than that of the agency's Kepler mission.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

In 1969, astronauts aboard the Apollo missions collected rocks and other geological samples from the surface of the moon, sealed them in special containers, and brought them safely back to Earth. According to Leonard Dav...

Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis: "The biggest challenge we face is the acquisition system." SpaceNews.com

SpaceX is marking the 50th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, its satellite-delivery workhorse.

Netflix has released a new trailer for its "Lost In Space" reboot, which introduces the space family Robinson's new robot - and explores their alien environment. Check it out!

"Once these elements had been extracted, intense flashes of light were detected in the image sequences," says Samuel Grant from Queen's University."These intense flashes had all the hallmarks of the Alfvén waves convert...

A signal caused by the very first stars to form in the universe has been picked up by a tiny but highly specialized radio telescope in the remote Western Australian desert. Details of the detection were revealed in a pap...

A United Kingdom-based researcher claims he's seen evidence of ancient animal tracks on Mars, but don't get too excited. The features he's talking about are widely documented by NASA as interesting crystal shapes that li...

As Blue Origin continues tests of its BE-4 engine, United Launch Alliance is keeping quiet about when it might select that engine or an alternative for its Vulcan rocket.

Skyscraper-sizied asteroid VR12, 287 meters long, is nearing our Earth with every passing second as the terrifying combination of space rock, ice and metal speeds through the our Solar System. VR12 is one of 1,882 astero...

Buckle up and pack your popcorn: we're in for some intergalactic fireworks, only not quite like we were expecting.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a circumbinary disk around the system Oph-IRS67AB and analyzed its chemistry as well as physical properties. The finding is detailed in a paper published February 26 on...

The speed of light in a vacuum is 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second), and in theory nothing can travel faster than light.

In this 2006 image, astronauts Joan Higginbotham (foreground) and Suni Williams refer to a procedures checklist as they work the controls of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) or Canadarm2 in the Destiny...

Comets which consist of two parts, like Chury, can form after a catastrophic collision of larger bodies. Such collisions may have taken place in a later phase of our solar system, which suggests that Chury can be much yo...