Space News

Lt. Gen. David "DT" Thompson noted the U.S. is on the verge of a boom in commercial space, although the health of the industry is "always a little bit of a concern." SpaceNews.com

Commercial space companies regard Blackjack as a huge opportunity to break into the military market, and have urged DARPA to not allow Blackjack to turn into a typical plodding Pentagon procurement program. SpaceNews.com

Swarm Technologies, the startup that ran afoul of the FCC last year for its unauthorized launch, has raised $25 million to continue building and deploying a constellation of 150 very small satellites.

Time to change your desktop pictures. The Hubble Space Telescope just produced an amazing panorama image of the Triangulum Galaxy, one of the closest galactic neighbors to Earth.

The China National Space Administration has launched two rockets so far in 2019, placing five satellites in orbit for a variety of uses.

Auroras paint the sky around the poles when the sun is particularly active, flinging highly charged particles at Earth's atmosphere -- but to scientists' surprise, displays at the north and the south don't precisely matc...