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A startup developing small communications satellites will fund the launch of a student-built satellite selected through a competition. SpaceNews.com

As governments, companies and everyone in between prepare to trade out 4G wireless infrastructure for 5G, questions linger about what the transition will entail. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered a fast-moving jet of material propelled outward from a type of neutron star previously thought incapable of launch...

At a news conference on the opening day of the International Astronautical Conference in Bremen, Germany, Landspace said it will launch the Zhuque-1 three-stage solid-propellant rocket near the end of October, with the e...

The mysterious "Death Comet" which flew past Earth in 2015 is coming around again, and will once again pass Earth safely on November 11th. The post The “Death Comet” Will Pass By Earth Just After Halloween appeared f...

The administrator of NASA and his Chinese counterpart have both expressed interest in working together despite the current constraints in U.S. law regarding bilateral cooperation. SpaceNews.com

Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding distant galaxies. The exquisite sensitivity of MUSE allowed for direct ...

Today - Binary Colloidal Alloy Test - Cohesive Sedimentation (BCAT-CS): The crew replaced all four SB-800 flash batteries with new AA batteries; they then verified the camera focus and alignment with manual images....

Jupiter has so many moons it could almost qualify as its own solar system.

Astronauts on the moon take the lunar rover for a spin.

Customers for Audacy, a Silicon Valley startup, have signed memoranda of understanding to spend more than $100 million annually on the company's proposed inter-satellite data relay network, Audacy announced Oct. 2. Space...

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Ten days after it officially began operations in 1958, NASA attempted its first moonshot.

Using ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope, two researchers have observed the symbiotic star AG Pegasi after the end of its outburst in 2015. The observations, detailed in a paper published September 24 on the arXiv pre-prin...

In December of 2017, President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive-1, in which the president directed NASA "to lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners t...

This Aug. 5 1968 image was taken aboard the MV Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico, where the Apollo 7 crew, Walter Schirra, Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele practiced water egress procedures in preparation for the October ...

You never know what you're going to see when you visit a world for the first time--particularly when it's on the solar system's most distant frontier - but you can get ready to see it.

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are the smallest, most dark matter dominated, and least chemically enriched stellar systems in the universe, and are important targets for understanding dark matter and galaxy formation. They c...

NASA turns 60 years old today, and while the agency has been particularly focused on its past in anticipation of the big milestone, that's business as usual for a whole office within NASA.

By analyzing methane in the skies of Jupiter and Saturn's moon Titan, scientists are now pinpointing what effects this global warming gas is having on Earth, a new study finds.

Researchers probe a mystery deep in the Earth's mantle.

Since its birth 60 years ago, NASA has managed to inspire people around the world without getting bogged down by partisan politics or the conflicts and controversies that have affected other branches of the U.S. governme...