Space News

In the coming decades, NASA has ambitious plans to send astronauts back to the Moon and conduct the first crewed mission to Mars. In order to accomplish these lofty goals, the agency is investing in cutting-edge technolo...

Whether or not NASA wants to keep the International Space Station in business after 2024, other countries do.

Raytheon wants to show tat small satellites operated by military users on the ground can deliver tactical imagery faster than commercial providers and more economically than aerial drones. SpaceNews.com

Ready for one more? While all eyes are still following Comet 21/P Giacobini-Zinner as it glides through northern hemisphere skies, we'd like to turn your attention towards another icy interloper: periodic Comet 38P Steph...

On its last orbits in 2017, the long-running Cassini spacecraft dove between Saturn's rings and its upper atmosphere and bathed in a downpour of dust that astronomers call "ring rain."

NASA has launched a pilot program to evaluate how Earth science data from commercial small-satellite constellations could supplement observations from the agency's fleet of orbiting Earth science missions. On Sept. 28, t...

Some of the last data from the Cassini mission reveals more structure in Saturn's magnetic field, but still no answer as to how it formed.

Political humorist Mark Russel once joked, "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."

The Air Force made the next-gen OPIR missile warning satellites one its top acquisition priorities to keep pace with adversaries' advances in anti-satellite weapons. SpaceNews.com

NASA and the UAE Space Agency (UAESA) yesterday signed an Implementing Arrangement (IA) that outlines cooperation across a range of areas related to space exploration and human spaceflight.

Astronomers comparing data from an ongoing major survey of the sky using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to data from earlier surveys likely have made the first discovery of the af...

A new model suggests that merging supermassive black holes will glow in eerie ultraviolet and X-ray light as they spiral into an inevitable crash.

World Space Week starts today (Oct. 4), kicking off a weeklong celebration of space activities around the globe -- and even out at sea.

Deep-space missions, to Mars and beyond, could spell trouble for astronauts, according to new research showing that cosmic radiation can damage the digestive tract, stomach and colon.

To receive FIRST UP Satcom, a weekly SpaceNews newsletter for satellite and telecom professionals, sign up here. TOP STORIES Harris Corporation plans to work with Blue Origin on satellite antennas optimized for the New G...

Technology image of the week: this 6-m wingspan unmanned aircraft is on show at ESA's Open Day on Sunday, suspended inside the Hertz radio test chamber

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): Astronomers comparing data from an ongoing major survey of the sky using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to data from earlier surveys l...

Two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth on Thursday wrapping up a six-month mission at the International Space Station as tensions between Washington and Moscow threaten a rare area of cooperati...

Scanning the sky for X-ray sources, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has been busy with the XXL Survey, its largest observational programme to date. The second batch of data from the survey has just been released, incl...

A look back on the celebration of 50 years of ESRIN, ESA's establishment in Italy

Space Tango, a Kentucky startup that develops microgravity research platforms, announced plans Oct. 4 to form a subsidiary focused on the plant biology and properties of hemp. SpaceNews.com

Space Station Crew Returns Safely to Earth After 197 Days In Orbit