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In an interview, Isotropic founder and CEO John Finney said Boeing and Isotropic agreed to several "strategic elements" that go beyond the cash investment. SpaceNews.com

Aireon said it signed the credit facility Dec. 21, and that it used the new funds to pay satellite operator Iridium $35 million before the end of 2018 for hosting its sensor payloads on the Iridium Next constellation. Sp...

Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one.

It was bound to happen. While the rest of us look up at the night sky, and wonder at what we’re seeing, ponder how it all fits together, and strain ourselves trying to understand how our origins are intertwined with al...

What it was like to be with the science team as the New Horizons probe reported back from the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft --

The U.S. Air Force has obligated about $7 million of its $20 million budget for commercial satellite weather data. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

An international team of scientists is challenging our understanding of a part of Earth's history by looking at the Moon, the most complete and accessible chronicle of the asteroid collisions that carved our solar system...

One of the last acts of NASA's Cassini spacecraft before its death plunge into Saturn's hydrogen and helium atmosphere was to coast between the planet and its rings and let them tug it around, essentially acting as a gra...

Amid difficulties for the European launch industry, and with Brexit looming on the horizon, European Space Agency executives face a challenging year ahead. SpaceNews.com

Relativity, the startup developing a small launch vehicle using additive manufacturing technologies, announced Jan. 17 it has won approval from the U.S. Air Force to build a launch site at Cape Canaveral. SpaceNews.com

Navigation software destined for the ExoMars 2020 mission to the Red Planet has passed a rover-based driving test at ESA's 'Mars Yard'.

Japan launched seven spacecraft to Earth orbit today (Jan. 17), including a little satellite designed to create dazzling artificial meteor showers.

The distant object Ultima Thule spins into view in a dramatic new video captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

The China Lunar Exploration Program has given the Maisto Tech toy company exclusive rights to manufacture toy versions of the Chang'e-4 lunar rover, which landed on the lunar farside on Jan. 2, 2019. See how the toys are...

Here's something you don't see every day -- the glint of freshly fallen rain on the surface of an alien world.

The second season of "Star Trek: Discovery" will be back on your screens via CBS All Access this Thursday evening at 8:30 p.m. EST.

The White House has once again nominated Barry Myers to be administrator of NOAA, as well as four people to serve on the board of the Export-Import Bank. SpaceNews.com

Cherenkov Telescope Array: Media: pSCT Photo 1 pSCT Photo 2 SCT Rendering CTA-South Rendering pSCT Live Webcam Credit: Amy Oliver, Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian AMADO,...

ESA Web TV talks with DG Jan Wörner to learn more about 'Space19+', ESA's next Ministerial Council, and its benefits for citizens

A cotton seedling that sprouted on the moon has been left to die as China's historic lunar lander continues a freezing night-time nap that will last as long as two earth weeks, scientists said.

Barnard b (or GJ 699 b) is a recently discovered Super-Earth planet orbiting Barnard's Star, making it the second nearest star system to the Earth. Although likely cold (-170 degrees centigrade), it could still have the ...