Space News

Fleet operators SES and Intelsat asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to extend the deadline for their customers to register C-band dishes before the commission decides on the band's future use. SpaceNews.com

Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James: "The Air Force and the DoD have to come up with something to back up what the president said." SpaceNews.com

The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to protect the planet from incoming asteroids that could wipe out entire regions or even continents.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

After a nearly twenty-year long game of cosmic hide-and-seek, astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory have finally found evidence of hot, diffuse gas permeating the cosmos, closing a puzzling gap in the over...

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Operations image of the week: Lucky timing led to this brilliant photo, showing our Moon and the planet Venus, together with a meteor burning up in the atmosphere over Belgium

China has lowered the orbit of its Tiangong-2 space lab, likely in preparation for deorbiting the orbital facility and thus averting a similar scenario to the uncontrolled re-entry of Tiangong-1 earlier this year. SpaceN...

A moon rock gifted to Cambodia by the U.S. amidst the Vietnam War has been found and put on display after being all but lost to time and strife.

Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to discover the tale-telling signs of planets in the young, likely planet-forming disk around the star MWC 758....

Before Sally Ride left her personal stamp on space history, the astronaut found a passion for collecting space-topical stamps. The first American woman to fly into space, Ride was honored with a United States postage sta...

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems brings together decades of work by pervious companies in the aerospace industry.

A trio of researchers with the University of California and Sorbonne Universités has found a possible explanation for why Venus probes have found different day lengths for the planet. In their paper published in the jou...

The presence of dark energy in our universe is causing space to expand at an accelerating rate, Hooper observes. As a result, over the next approximately 100 billion years, all stars residing beyond the Local Group will ...

Dan Hooper, a senior scientist with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has written a paper outlining a way future aliens could keep their civilizations alive in spite of the isolation due to an expanding universe. In ...

From an evolutionary standpoint, "there's no reason to think grief would be restricted to humans," says Richard Connor, a cetacean biologist at the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth. When an adult striped dolphin ...

Those who loathe or love a Space Force "separate but equal" to the Air Force must think and act decisively and quickly. Regardless of whether the Space Force actually materializes, deliberation alone could finally spring...

An advisory group dubbed the "think tank" for the National Space Council formally kicked off its work June 19 with a broad but vague mandate to study space policy issues. SpaceNews.com

In a meeting of the National Space Council yesterday (June 18), President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to get cracking on building a sixth branch of the U.S. military called the Space Force. We have one. It's called...

President Donald Trump's call this week that to create a sixth branch of the U.S. military -- which he called the "Space Force" -- has reopened a wider debate on the military's role in space.

This image captures the intensity of the jets and vortices in Jupiter's North North Temperate Belt.

Two astronomers from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) have developed a software library that can effortlessly generate visualisations based on hundreds of millions of data points. Maarten Breddels and Jovan ...