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The Pentagon justifies increased spending on space as necessary to ensure "unfettered access to and freedom to operate in space." SpaceNews.com

NASA's plans to develop a crewed facility in lunar orbit to support exploration of the moon got boosts both in the White House's budget request for the agency as well as from the partners in the International Space Stati...

The White House said the Space Force will "initially realign existing space forces and materiel from the military services and will scale up responsibly and deliberately over the next several years."

Leaders of the House Science Committee and three House Appropriations subcommittees are calling on the FCC to delay the auction of 5G radio frequency spectrum scheduled for March 14 due to concern about interference with...

On a distant space rock being explored by a NASA probe, days are slowly shortening -- and scientists are still trying to figure out why.

OmniAccess, a maritime connectivity provider who demonstrated service with Telesat's prototype satellite, signed a "major, multiyear contract" for broadband service from the constellation. SpaceNews.com

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released some new photos and updated the world on their lunar rover mission. The Yutu-2 rover is working its way into the history books on the lunar far side, exploring ...

According to a new study, black holes could be used as a gravitational slingshot, allowing for interstellar space exploration. The post Using Black Holes to Conquer Space: The Halo Drive! appeared first on Universe Today...

Omega is celebrating the golden anniversary of the first moon landing by going gold.

The first director of the Space Development Agency will be Fred Kennedy, who until now served as the director of DARPA's Tactical Technology Office. SpaceNews.com

Astronauts who survived an abortive Soyuz launch said Wednesday they were confident about their upcoming flight to the International Space Station despite some last-minute malfunctions.

NASA is considering launching its Orion crew capsule on a commercial rocket rather than the Space Launch System, the agency's own megarocket that is currently under development.

NASA is considering moving the Orion spacecraft that was to fly on the first Space Launch System mission to a commercial rocket to keep that mission on schedule for mid-2020. SpaceNews.com

In a beautiful 3-minute video, hear the sounds of the first whirling pulsar ever observed and learn the story of its discovery by Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

But yeah, Optimus Prime and Megatron still don't get along.

Astronomers from Japan, Taiwan and Princeton University have discovered 83 quasars powered by supermassive black holes in the distant universe, from a time when the universe was less than 10 percent of its present age.

NASA will open one of its last remaining lunar samples sealed by Apollo astronauts on the moon nearly 50 years ago.

NASA officials say that some rare and distinct meteorites found on Earth were actually blasted off Mars by a large impact event. One such rock from the red planet made its way to an Army laboratory recently for a special...

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To find out how planets form, astrophysicists run complicated and time-consuming computer calculations. Members of the NCCR PlanetS at the University of Bern have now developed a totally novel approach to speed up this p...

NASA is putting its money on the moon, preparing for what the space agency says will be the nation's long-awaited, sustainable return to missions outside of Earth's orbit.

Solar flares are sudden explosive processes that convert the energy of the magnetic field into the kinetic energy of electrons and ions. Since the beginning of the century, millimeter observations of solar flares became ...