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Thornberry said he worries that too much attention is being paid to org charts and not enough to the substance of what space forces need. SpaceNews.com

To receive FIRST UP Satcom, a weekly SpaceNews newsletter for satellite and telecom professionals, sign up here. TOP STORIES Thales InFlyt’s new CEO Philippe Carette said he wants the company to offer worldwide Ka-band...

Lockheed Martin vice president Kay Sears said the new GPS 3F is a "brand new" satellite design and not a "carbon copy" of the GPS 3. SpaceNews.com

A December deadline looms for the Pentagon to submit a legislative proposal to the White House on how to organize an independent military service for space. And internal battles are heating up. SpaceNews.com

So far the company that has most benefitted from the push for faster acquisitions and more security is Lockheed Martin. SpaceNews.com

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Blackjack is small compared to traditional military space procurements but it is one of the most talked about space projects. SpaceNews.com

The Expedition 56 crew is ramping for a busy traffic period at the International Space Station during the next couple of weeks....

In a new experiment, a team of researchers used laser pulses to accelerate photons to near the speed of light, which could have immense applications for space flight and particle physics. The post Optical Rocket Boosts E...

Noctilucent clouds 50 miles above the Earth in the mesosphere. A NASA mission spent five days above the Arctic photographing and measuring them. The post Noctilucent Clouds Perform Delicate Dance for NASA’s Balloon-Cam...

Astronomers have detected radio jets emitted by a neutron star with a strong magnetic field--something not predicted by current theory, according to a new study published in Nature today.

Astrophysicists finally have an explanation for the violent mood swings of some of the biggest, brightest and rarest stars in the universe.

NASA has funded five new projects to develop tools and technology to make the agency's massive Earth science datasets more accessible and user-friendly.

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New data from the Mars Science Laboratory demonstrating the presence of methane presents novel challenges to explain how it was formed and what it suggests about the potential for life to exist or be supported on Mars. A...

A High-Level event, "Space2030: Space as a Driver for Peace," was held yesterday on the side-lines of the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly during the High-Level Segment.

For the first time, the two halves of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope--the spacecraft and the telescope--were connected together using temporary ground wiring that enabled them to "speak" to each other like they will i...

We love our technology, so maybe it's natural to hope that somewhere else in the universe, another form of life also clings to similarly shiny tools, and perhaps in ways we could spot at a distance.

With the Radar Altimetry Symposium underway in the Azores, Marcello Passaro joins ESA web TV to explain how satellite altimeters measure the height of the sea surface

The Apollo 12 crew needed to land close to their target area to fulfill their mission.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory views our sun in 10 different wavelengths because each wavelength reveals different solar features. This Sept. 21, 2018, view of the sun uses two selected images taken at virtually the s...

Nature journalist Alison Abbott has published a News and Comment piece in the journal detailing the finding of a letter in a Royal Society library purported to have been written by famed early scientist Galileo Galilei. ...