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WASHINGTON -- The Air Force on Wednesday awarded two major launch contracts to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance. Under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program, SpaceX received a $290 million firm-fixed-pric...

Satellite manufacturers say they are trying to protect their component suppliers from the drought of commercial telecom spacecraft that threatens to put such companies out of business. SpaceNews.com

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry: "We will not relax our effort on space reforms. This topic is just too important." SpaceNews.com

A team that participated in the ESA's Pangaea-X program recently produced the largest 3D image of a cave system in Spain, and the technology could be used to map out lava tubes on the Moon and Mars too The post This Biza...

The hand-wringing continues at the Pentagon over how to respond to Chinese and Russian missile advances. SpaceNews.com

You can now enable the Amazon Astronomy Cast skill on your Alexa enabled device (in the US now, Canada soon)! You just log into your Alexa dashboard, go to the Skills, and look for “Astronomy Cast.” Or, even easier t...

According to a new study that included the Frank Drake, any alien signals humanity detects will have likely come from a civilization that has since gone extinct The post If We Do Hear Signals From Aliens, They’re Proba...

With a stopgap spending bill set to expire in just over a week, House and Senate appropriators are continuing to negotiate provisions of an omnibus bill, including funding levels for some NASA programs. SpaceNews.com

ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana:

The defining question of Hawking's later career was never resolved in his lifetime, but he offered physicists the tools to do so.

There's a lot we still don't know about black holes, but these light-gobbling behemoths would be even more mysterious if Stephen Hawking hadn't plumbed their inky depths.

Physicist Stephen Hawking, whose death was announced March 14, wrote prodigiously for both a popular audience and the scientific community over the course of his career. Here are the highlights.

The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on the Senate's March 14 confirmation of Jeff DeWit to serve as agency's Chief Financial Officer.

"With Juno only about a third of the way through its primary mission, we are being presented with a whole new Jupiter that is shaking up our basic understanding of giant planets throughout the universe," said Scott Bolto...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Phytoplankton are microscopic plants whose growth in ocean surface waters supports ocean food webs and global marine fisheries. They are also key agents in the long-term removal of carbon dioxide (CO2). A team led by sci...

Phytoplankton are microscopic plants whose growth in ocean surface waters supports ocean food webs and global marine fisheries. They are also key agents in the long-term removal of carbon dioxide (CO2). A team led by sci...

The reaction among physicists yesterday to Hawking's death is "just profound shock and sadness," says Malcolm Perry, a Cambridge theoretical physicist who was a student of Hawking's in the early 1970s. "He was a truly ex...

It might sound like something from a science fiction plot - astronauts traveling into deep space being bombarded by cosmic rays - but radiation exposure is science fact. As future missions look to travel back to the moon...

University of New Hampshire:

The introduction of 5G services will bring users globally the ability to have true anytime, anywhere capabilities to support a myriad of user devices and applications never imagined. SpaceNews.com