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York Space Systems, a Denver-based satellite manufacturer, announced plans April 17 to work with Swiss satellite and rocket component supplier Ruag Space on payload adapters for York's S-Class satellites. SpaceNews.com

Blue Origin's CEO says he expects the company's BE-4 engine to complete qualification testing by the end of the year as the company ramps up work on its New Glenn orbital rocket. SpaceNews.com

The number of space-related technology patent applications filed in China over the five-year period grew by 13.3 percent. SpaceNews.com

As Curiosity rover marches across Mars, the red planet's watery past comes into clearer focus.

WASHINGTON -- French fleet operator Eutelsat finished a lengthy 302 million euro ($372.9 million) sale of its stake in Spanish fleet operator Hispasat after gaining long-awaited approval from Spain's government. The dive...

NASA's latest nail-biting drama was far from orbit as the Senate narrowly confirmed President Donald Trump's choice of a tea party congressman to run the space agency in an unprecedented party-line vote.

Los Angeles harbor commissioners have approved a permit for Space Exploration Technologies to build a facility on 19 acres of port land to manufacture a Mars rocket that will be so big it will require an oceangoing barge...

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The most contentious nomination process for a NASA administrator in the agency's six-decade history came to an end April 19 when the Senate voted to confirm Jim Bridenstine. SpaceNews.com

The following are statements from Rep. Jim Bridenstine and acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on Thursday's U.S. Senate confirmation of Bridenstine as the 13th Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space...

Arianespace on April 19 announced a agreement Japan's Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation BSAT and satellite manufacturer Space Systems Loral to launch the BSAT-4b satellite on an Ariane 5 rocket in 2020. SpaceNews...

DARPA announced a prize competition April 18 to demonstrate the ability to rapidly launch small satellites, a competition whose regulatory challenges may tower over its technical ones. SpaceNews.com

Oh, my! Humans have been performing brain surgery--or at least drilling holes in one others' skulls--for thousands of years, reports today's Science. But how did they get their practice? A new study analyzing an exquisit...

Thousands of Australians are invited to help set a new Guinness World Record for the most people stargazing at multiple venues.

Saturn may have played a key role in the birth of Jupiter's largest moons, a new study finds.

This mayhem is all happening at the heart of the Lagoon Nebula, a vast stellar nursery located 4,000 light-years away and visible in binoculars simply as a smudge of light with a bright core.

A docked Russian cargo craft automatically fired its engines this morning boosting the International Space Station's altitude a little higher. During the rest of the day, the Expedition 55 crew supported life science and...

These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images compare two diverse views of the roiling heart of a vast stellar nursery, known as the Lagoon Nebula. The images, one taken in visible and the other in infrared light, celebrate H...

"The really amazing thing about this research is that it changes the way astronomy has been conducted in the past," said Don Winget, the director of CAPP and a professor in the Department of Astronomy. "There were a lot ...

When Elon Musk of SpaceX tweets something interesting, it generates a wave of excitement. So when he tweeted recently that SpaceX might be working on a way to retrieve upper stages of their rockets, it set off a chain of...

"Once upon a time, there was a city so dazzling and kaleidoscopic, so braided and water-rimmed, that it was often compared to a single living body. It clustered around a glimmering emerald spine, which astronauts could g...

Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory have probed the gas-filled haloes around galaxies in a quest to find 'missing' matter thought to reside there, but have come up empty-handed - so where is it?