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Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce said Wednesday the two purchase offers Inmarsat received from EchoStar this summer priced the company too low to take seriously. SpaceNews.com

Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart: If the military wanted to transport cargo across the globe, the technology is available to do that, but a lot of planning and engineering would be required. SpaceNews.com

As part of their 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge, NASA recently awarded five teams with a total of $100,000 for their designs for Martian habitats. The post Five Teams Compete to Design a 3D Printed Mars Habitat ...

NASA announced Aug. 3 the assignment of eight agency astronauts, a mix of veterans and rookies, as well as one company astronaut to fly on the first set of commercial crew missions by Boeing and SpaceX. SpaceNews.com

NASA announced today (Aug. 3) the nine astronauts who will fly on the test and maiden flights of two new U.S. crew capsules: Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. Here's who will be on board.

NASA introduced to the world on Friday the first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station....

After years of vehicle development and building anticipation, NASA has now put the crew in commercial crew spacecraft. The space agency announced the nine men and women who will be the first to fly on new spacecraft oper...

President Donald Trump fired off a celebratory tweet today to laud NASA's first astronaut crews to fly on private spacecraft built by Boeing and SpaceX, a message that also appeared to hail the president's proposed milit...

NASA on Friday announced the first nine astronauts who will fly to space on Boeing and SpaceX vehicles in 2019, a mix of novices and space shuttle veterans.

NASA introduced to the world on Friday the first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station - an endeavor that will return astronaut launches to U.S. ...

In medium Earth orbit, the only system providing satellite broadband today is SES Networks' constellation of 16 O3b satellites. A British startup with its own 16-satellite constellation idea wants to change that. SpaceNe...

Our week through the lens: 30 July - 3 August 2018

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner is one of two commercial spacecraft types that NASA plans to use for International Space Station flights. Here's a brief overview of how it works.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have made the first radio-telescope detection of a planetary-mass object beyond our Solar System. The object, about a dozen times ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The evolution of human language was once thought to have hinged on changes to a single gene that were so beneficial that they raced through ancient human populations. But an analysis now suggests that this gene, FOXP2, d...

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner is a 21st century space capsule designed to launch NASA astronauts into orbit on commercial trips to the International Space Station and beyond. See photos of how it works here.

Join space via the ESA Grand Challenge offering prizes to teams bringing solutions to complex problems on Earth and in space.

Register now to see behind the scenes of Europe's space adventure. We will open our doors for the annual ESA Open Day in the Netherlands on 7 October.

Work on the camera for the future Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) has reached a major milestone with the completion and delivery of the camera's fully integrated cryostat. With 3.2 gigapixels, the LSST camera will...

A grain of asteroid dust observed under a microscope looks like a strange, "extraterrestrial" hair.

The Marvel hero's origin story has implications for human adaptation to living on other planets --