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For the first time since a Russian Soyuz rocket launched 73 satellites in July 2017, Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, is confirming a problem with the Fregat upper stage. SpaceNews.c...

Water is crucial for life, but how do you make water? Cooking up some H2O takes more than mixing hydrogen and oxygen....

An anticipated growth in commercial and government demand for small satellite antennas means more competitors are breaking into the market. SpaceNews.com

The NASA Twin Study, which assessed how spending a year aboard the ISS affected Scott Kelly's health (compared to his twin brother, Mark), has just been released The post 7% of Scott Kelly’s Genes Changed After a Year ...

NASA has awarded a contract to Leidos, Incorporated in Reston, Virginia, for safety, health and mission assurance services at its Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

Spaceflight Industries announced March 13 that it has raised $150 million to fund development of the next phase of its BlackSky Earth imaging constellation, with Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio taking minority stakes....

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson is using regular meetings with her Army and Navy counterparts to keep her colleagues up to date on space issues and on the emerging concept of "multi-domain" military operations that re...

OneWeb's largest investor SoftBank expects to bring on several partners to help sell OneWeb capacity, including potentially other geostationary satellite operators. SpaceNews.com

In honor of the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy, SpaceX has released an inspiring video of the event that shows the highlights of the event The post Hard Not to Get a Little Teary Watching this Video from SpaceX Ab...

Once deployed, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be the most powerful telescope ever built. As the spiritual and scientific successor to the Hubble, Spitzer, and Kepler space telescopes, this space observatory w...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

An interim administrator has been overseeing the space agency for more than 13 months--and now he's leaving, too. There was only one witness at a congressional hearing about NASA's budget last week, and he wasn't even su...

After steering Sea Launch into the hands of a new owner, chief executive Sergey Gugkaev will leave the company to look for a new role elsewhere in the space industry. SpaceNews.com

WASHINGTON — If satellite constellations are to fulfill their promise of offering global communications services, they will need key technologies including low-cost antennas and laser cross-links, according to speakers...

Imagine an extraterrestrial (E.T.) civilization on the surface of a planet that is deficient in uranium relative to Earth. Such a civilization will be less likely to develop nuclear weapons and to annihilate itself throu...

The organic and intricate features of a volcanic cave come alive in great detail in this three-dimensional image of La Cueva de Los Verdes in Lanzarote, Spain. Some of the most innovative scanning technologies have produ...

Using Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) mounted on the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified nearly 200 "protoclusters," the progenitors of galaxy clusters, in the early universe, about 12 billion years ago, about ten time...

One former official said the government is turning away from its responsibilities.

Theireconomies and their fatemay depend on the abundance of gold and uranium, forged in relatively nearbyneutron star mergers --

A team of researchers from the U.S., New Zealand, Australia and Germany has found evidence suggesting that a type of star formation near the center of the Milky Way is responsible for large gamma ray emissions, not dark ...

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: The bowels of Earth in 3D

A team of quantum physicists has busted the limit on how fast information can move through the universe.