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The private spaceflight company SpaceX called off the attempted launch of an advanced GPS satellite for the U.S. Air Force on Saturday (Dec. 22) due to high winds in the upper atmosphere. The next attempt will be Sunday.

CBS is clearly saving the best for last in its four-part "Short Trek" mini-series.

Just in time for the holidays, the ESO's Mars Express mission revealed a breathtaking image of a Martian crater that is ice-filled all year round. The post This Crater on Mars Traps the Cold, and Remains Filled With Ice,...

When I was growing up in the 60s you needed a guide book to figure out the constellations in the night sky. Flash forward. Now all you need is an app on your iPhone....

A bill designed to reform commercial space regulations and extend the life of the International Space Station failed to win approval in the House Dec. 21 amid lackluster support for the bill and opposition from some Demo...

A partial government shutdown that started Dec. 22 will once again force NASA to halt most of its non-essential activities and could hinder coverage of spaceflight events planned for the end of the year. SpaceNews.com

Swarm Technologies will pay $900,000 to settle an investigation by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission into the startup's launch of four picosatellites on an Indian rocket this January without regulatory approval,...

Lots of people got to admire, and puzzle over, the fireball that blazed up off the coast of Northern California just after sunset on Wednesday (Dec. 19).

Images of an "ever-icy" Martian crater reveal a distant yet mesmerizing winter wonderland.

Astronauts already decked the halls of the International Space Station for the holidays, if a new video is any indication.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the island of South Georgia. Linked with the South Sandwich Islands to form a British Overseas Territory, this southern Atlantic island is a haven for a vast array of wildl...

A preface to the draft legislative proposal says this "represents an initial effort to statutorily establish a United States Space Force as a 6th Armed Force within the Department of the Air Force."

The Senate approved legislation Dec. 20 to reform commercial space regulations and extend the life of the International Space Station, but the passage may be too late for this bill to become law.

New Horizons:

The December 2018 close approach by the large, near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 has provided astronomers an outstanding opportunity to obtain detailed radar images of the surface and shape of the object and to improve the ...

It’s relatively easy for galaxies to make stars. Start out with a bunch of random blobs of gas and dust. Typically those blobs will be pretty warm. To turn them into stars, you have to cool them off. By dumping all the...

A satellite-deorbiting program the European Space Agency that's been struggling to gain traction with its member states and industry has been redesigned to be more appealing. SpaceNews.com