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Earlier this year, on a quiet Sunday night, my colleague Jack and I found the fastest-growing supermassive black hole in the known universe. We were fortunate to be part of the team that made one of the greatest discover...

Hyten: At some point someone has to decide it's time to pull the plug and invest in the future. SpaceNews.com

Two years ago, Firefly Space Systems appeared to be flying high. Then the bottom fell out of the company. SpaceNews.com

In the coming years, defense and intelligence agencies will rely on small satellites to enhance the capabilities of large government-owned and -operated spacecraft. SpaceNews.com

Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15, with a 40-minute window opening at 8:46 a.m. EDT (5:46 a.m. PDT).

The first of Christa McAuliffe's lost lessons finally was released from space Tuesday, 32 years after she died aboard Challenger.

NASA has selected 20 research and technology proposals -- valued at $15 million -- from 19 American small businesses.

The Golden State’s fiery woes are clearly visible all the way from low-Earth orbit --

On August 11, NASA plans to launch Earth's first spacecraft to venture inside the orbits of Venus and Mercury to touch the very edge of the sun's fiery corona.

How about that Total Lunar Eclipse this past July 13th? It has been a busy year for astronomy for sure, with two total lunar eclipses, a comet fading out from an unexpected burst of glory and Saturn, Jupiter and Mars rea...

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: the Fluid Science Laboratory on the Space Station gets upgraded

Mark Sirangelo, who left Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) in June after heading the company's space division for a decade, has joined the University of Colorado Boulder as an "entrepreneur-in-residence" in its aerospace e...

The star of the show is a dark gray block, about the size of a textbook, and several inches thick. As an audience of reporters watches, an engineer runs a flaming blowtorch over the block until its face heats to a red gl...

Forecasting space weather is even more challenging than regular meteorology. The ionosphere--the upper atmospheric layer containing particles charged by solar radiation--affects many of today's vital navigation and commu...

The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial event beloved by millions of skywatchers around the world, is about to make its annual return to the night sky. And thanks to a new Moon, there'll be no bright moonlight to ...

The Earth, in all its majesty and its tragedy, is the subject of images taken aboard the International Space Station. This image of the Carr and Ferguson fires was captured by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Ge...

Smallsat 2018 is underway in Logan, Utah, and our photographer is getting great shots of cool hardware and other photo-worthy highlights of the 32nd Conference on Small Satellites. SpaceNews.com

If you had to live the rest of your life on Mars, what would you miss the most? Figuring out how we could we be comfortable living on the red planet is a challenge but with increasing discussion about how to send people ...

Jordi Puig-Suari, the California Polytechnic State University professor who along with Bob Twiggs, now a professor at Morehead State University in Kentucky, invented the cubesat in 1999 as a university teaching tool, is ...

Colorado startup Ursa Major Technologies is building a line of rocket engines that it hopes smallsat launch companies will choose over building their own engines in-house. SpaceNews.com

"It's a really surprising and puzzling observation showing that a moon with a magnetic field can create such a tremendous intensification in the power of waves," says the lead author of the study, Professor Yuri Shprits ...

The Oort-Cloud Invader --"70,000 Years Ago a Small Reddish Star Disrupted Our Solar System" Mystery Signal from the Dawn of the Universe Homo Naledi, Newly Discovered Species --"Maybe We've Had the Story of Human Evoluti...