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Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies reported contrasting financial performances for their space activities Jan. 29, with Harris charting growth in classified smallsat programs and L3 recording losses in satellite communicat...

The Kuiper Belt, or the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, is home to ancient rocks. Kuiper Belt Objects, or KBOs, are remnants of the early planet-formation days of our Solar System. Small KBOs, in the 1 km. diameter range, have be...

James Vedda, analyst at Aerospace Corp., said the RSGS setback should not be read "as an indictment of satellite servicing." SpaceNews.com

A recent study has determined that the oldest sample of Earth rock ever discovered (~4 billion years old) was actually found on the Moon. The post One of the Oldest Earth Rocks Turned up on the Moon, of all Places appear...

Despite a recent wave of layoffs and a five-week partial government shutdown, companies remain optimistic about the overall prospects for the space industry in the coming year. SpaceNews.com

The Ariane 5 launch will carry two telecom satellites: Arabsat's SaudiGEOSat-1/Hellas Sat 4, and the Indian space agency ISRO's GSAT-31. SpaceNews.com

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A lightweight object resembling an empty trash bag is winging around Earth in a truly bizarre orbit.

It's winter in the United States, and swaths of the country are experiencing bitter cold brought on by a phenomenon nicknamed the polar vortex, a pattern weather satellites are watching closely.

SpaceX's net-equipped ship had a fairing temporarily in its clutches during a recent test off the California coast, a newly released SpaceX video shows.

Bluefield Technologies is signing up additional customers in the wake of a recent aerial demonstration of its optical sensors to detect methane leaks. SpaceNews.com

Earth's north magnetic pole is so out of whack that scientists need to update the global magnetic-field model they released only four years ago. Could that be a sign that the magnetic pole will flip soon?

Since construction began in 2007, the Vostochny Cosmodrome has been closed to Western journalists. But Dec. 24 -- Christmas Eve -- Roscosmos granted SpaceNews access to the cosmodrome as part of a revealing, though highl...

For over a century and a half, Eta Carinae has been one of the most luminous - and most enigmatic - stars of the southern Milky Way.

On Jan. 19, 2019, just 161 days after its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its first orbit of the Sun, reaching the point in its orbit farthest from our star, c...

The first qualification model of the P120C solid-fuel motor, configured for Vega-C, was static fired yesterday on the test stand at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

The company said it backed out the servicer program in order to focus on "other capital priorities, such as WorldView Legion." SpaceNews.com

Getting a science experiment on the world's only floating outpost in Earth orbit is a costly and time-consuming endeavour. ICE Cubes is ESA's faster, lower cost answer to making science happen in space.

After flying in space for more than two years, NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) recently entered into orbit around its target, the aster...

Scientists keep getting conflicting calculations of the expansion rate of the universe, but a new technique could help --

Scientists keep getting conflicting calculations of the expansion rate of the universe, but a new technique could help --