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"We can put a satellite phone in the hands of folks who don't know how to use it and it won't make a hill of beans difference," said Ken Flowers, Iridium Communications vice president government. SpaceNews.com

One of the brightest minds, Stephen Hawking has died at age 76. As we mourn his death and celebrate his life, here's a look back at some of his most intriguing words.

LeoSat sees itself as a disruptor in a military market where GEO satellite operators are the only commercial options. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are.

Trailing Earth's orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential knock-outs during its nine years in flight, from mechanical failures to being blasted by cosmic rays. At this rate, ...

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Notanee Bourassa knew that what he was seeing in the night sky was not normal. Bourassa, an IT technician in Regina, Canada, trekked outside of his home on July 25, 2016, around midnight with his two younger children to ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Stephen Hawking passed away on Wednesday morning, March 14th, at his home in Cambridge. He leaves behind a loving family, millions of admirers, and an unparalleled scientific legacy. The post Stephen Hawking has passed a...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

When Stephen Hawking postulated in the mid-1970s that black holes leak radiation, slowly dissolving like aspirin in a glass of water, he overturned a core tenet of the Universe.

Despite uncertainty about who will lead the agency after the end of April, NASA's current acting administrator says he expects little change in the agency's activities in the near future. SpaceNews.com

The downward trend of satellite capacity pricing, brought about largely by the increase in more powerful high-throughput satellites, has prices trending between 35 and 60 percent lower than where they were two years ago,...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, March 19, to discuss a number of science investigations and instruments launching in April to the International Space Station on the next SpaceX commercial res...

Technology image of the week: extending ESA's Test Centre back in 1983 to clear space for Europe's largest thermal vacuum chamber

Two relativists present their distinctive views on the universe, its evolution and the impact of quantum theory --

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory launch into space. The Crab Nebula was one of the first objects that Chandra examined with its sharp X-ray vision, and it has been a frequent targe...

Geneticist David Reich used to study the living, but now he studies the dead. The precipitating event came in the form of 40,000-year-old Neanderthal bones found in a Croatian cave. So well-preserved were the bones that ...

Inhabitants of the tiny tropical island pay through the nose for internet service that mainlanders would have considered painfully slow during the pre-Netflix era. SpaceNews.com

The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on the passing of visionary physicist Stephen Hawking, who died at his home in Cambridge, England, early Wednesday morning.

"My goal is simple: a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorized wheelchair, with head...       

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