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Viasat expects to file an insurance claim soon for an antenna glitch that reduced the performance of its newest satellite by around 15 percent, CEO Mark Dankberg said May 24. SpaceNews.com

The Okavango Delta in northern Botswana is one of the world's largest inland deltas....

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane performed a successful test flight May 29, bringing the company one step closer to realizing its long-delayed dreams of space tourism and research flights. SpaceNews.c...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced May 30 that its first next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite is now fully operational as the government moves to procure additional satellites. Spac...

Bestwick will be the second major executive departure for Avanti in less than a year. David Williams, chief executive and fellow co-founder, left the company in August 2017. SpaceNews.com

It’s that time again! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

Virgin Galactic recently conducted its second successful powered test flight of the VSS Unity, bringing the company one step closer to its goal of space tourism. The post Virgin Galactic Performs the Second Test of VSS U...

Astronomers have proposed a new model for the invisible material that makes up most of the matter in the Universe. They have studied whether a fraction of dark matter particles may have a tiny electrical charge.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

Two months after suggesting the next major review of priorities in astrophysics research and missions to achieve those goals be delayed, the head of NASA's science directorate says that study should stay on schedule. Spa...

In 1983, Peterson performed the first spacewalk from a space shuttle --

The Expedition 55 crew is unloading the Orbital ATK Cygnus space freighter today ahead of next week's crew swap at the International Space Station....

The historical die-offs are similar to "what we're seeing right now on the Great Barrier Reef," says Mark Eakin, a coral reef ecologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in College Park, Maryland. Th...

In 50 years American citizens will look back on today and thank NASA for bringing all of us along with them as America expands into the solar system. SpaceNews.com

Actor Cas Anvar of "The Expanse" was about to shoot a scene in which, suspended by wires, he would jump off a set of stairs, spin around in simulated zero gravity, and catch a blob of beer in his mouth that he had spurte...

Using a pioneering method, researchers from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) have found a neutron star of abou...

If you've ever heard of the phrase two sides of the same coin, you know it means two things that at first appear to be unrelated are actually parts of the same thing. Now, a fundamental example can be found in the deep r...

A Cardiff University academic has spent two years embedded with the teams working on the International Space Station (ISS) programme to compile the most comprehensive study of its work.

C/2016 R2 (Pan-STARRS) is a comet abundant in carbon monoxide and lacking hydrogen cyanide, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, Florida. The finding is d...

NASA photographers have always understood that taking pictures of space launches is a risky business. No one is more familiar with this than Bill Ingalls, a NASA photographer who has taking pictures for the agency for th...

In some situations, spacefarers with visual or other impairmentscould actually make a mission safer --

German Aerospace Center (DLR):