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As the commercial launch industry seeks regulatory reforms to streamline the licensing process, other are raising concerns about a schedule that calls for those changes to be completed next year. SpaceNews.com

"If you build it, they will come" is the motto of BridgeSat, a company building a network of laser-equipped ground stations for high-speed communications with satellites. "Optical communications is technically possible t...

The postponement brings the project's total estimated lifetime cost to $9.66 billion—and further delays are possible --

A new study led by researchers from John Hopkins University tackles the question of where Titan's mysterious sand dunes come from. The post There’s Sand on Titan, Where Does it Come From? appeared first on Universe Tod...

"We are the biggest users of space," said Brig. Gen. Tim Lawson, deputy commanding general for operations at the Army Space and Missile Defense Command. SpaceNews.com

NASA announced yet another launch delay for the James Webb Space Telescope June 27, pushing the flagship observatory's launch to no earlier than late March 2021 while breaking a cost cap set by Congress. SpaceNews.com

The crust that encases rocky planets and makes possible the emergence of life took shape on Mars earlier than thought and at least 100 million years sooner than on Earth, researchers said Wednesday.

"The true nature of this enigmatic interstellar nomad may remain a mystery," concluded team member Olivier Hainaut, an astronomer at ESO. "`Oumuamua's recently-detected gain in speed makes it more difficult to be able to...

An object from another star system that made a brief appearance in our skies guised as an asteroid turns out to be a tiny interstellar comet....

Last year's visitor from another star system--a cigar-shaped object briefly tumbling through our cosmic neck of the woods--has now been identified as a comet.

Using mass spectrometry data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists found that large, carbon-rich organic molecules are ejected from cracks in the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Southwest Research Institute ...

'Oumuamua, the first-known visitor from outside the solar system, may not have been an asteroid after all --

An object from another star system that made a brief appearance in our skies guised as an asteroid turns out to be a tiny interstellar comet.

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Using observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, an international team of scientists have confirmed ′Oumuamua (oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah), the first known interstellar object to travel throu...

The request for proposal, released June 25, is for the construction of satellite mu Space says it will launch in 2021 on Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket. SpaceNews.com

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is exploring the asteroid Ryugu and will return samples to Earth in 2020. But before the probe arrived at the asteroid in June 2018, scientists weren't sure what it actually looked like.

The Expedition 56 crew members are configuring the International Space Station for several new experiments being delivered on the upcoming SpaceX Dragon cargo mission. The orbital residents also explored space physics an...

The explorer probe Hayabusa2 has successfully rendezvoused with Ryugu, beginning an 18-month stay at the diamond-shaped asteroid.

NASA will host a teleconference for members of the media and aviation industry at 4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 28, to discuss the details and preliminary results of the agency's first large-scale, remotely piloted aircra...

"We have now simulated, for the first time, the RAR of dwarf galaxies on the assumption that dark matter exists," explains Prof. Dr. Cristiano Porciani of the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the University of Bonn....