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Polish space industry startup KP Labs has awarded an order to Scottish cubesat manufacturer Clyde Space which will act as a subcontractor for the company's Intuition-1 project SpaceNews.com

In "Delta-V" (Dutton, 2019) by Daniel Suarez, out today (April 23), an unpredictable billionaire recruits an adventurous cave diver to join the first-ever effort to mine an asteroid.

After placing more than 60 satellites into orbit on a single Falcon 9 last year, Spaceflight says it will focus on launching smaller numbers of satellites at a time on more launches this year. SpaceNews.com

NASA is moving ahead with plans to launch a cargo version of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station next week as the investigation into an explosion of a Crew Dragon spacecraft continues. SpaceNews...

Iridium CEO Matt Desch said April 23 the company expects to finalize a multi-year renewal of its Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) contract with the Defense Department in the next 30 days. SpaceNews.com

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The X-Men answer NASA's call for a space rescue in the last "Dark Phoenix" trailer. But do they have the right stuff?

A new study reveals that traveling through a wormhole may actually be possible, but don't count on it saving you any time! The post You Could Travel Through a Wormhole, but it’s Slower Than Going Through Space appeared...

Moore's Law has come home to roost in the space business. Taking seven to 10 years to develop and deploy operational space systems is no longer efficient nor acceptable. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely "marsquake."

The Beresheet spacecraft is on the lunar surface, but sadly not in one piece. Though it crashed rather than soft-landed there, it is still a remarkable achievement. SpaceNews.com

Scientists said Tuesday they might have detected the first known seismic tremor on Mars in a discovery that could shed light on the ancient origins of Earth's neighbour.

A space rock called Bennu is getting its close-up: NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to explore the asteroid has entered a new phase of detailed survey work.

An astronaut who walked on the moon and a renowned NASA mathematician join a group of experts discussing the future of space exploration at the Universities Space Research Association conference today (April 23).

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center find that "speed bumps" in space, which can slow down satellites orbiting closer to Earth, are more complex than originally thought.

Relativity announced April 23 it has secured a contract to launch a low Earth orbit satellite for Thai startup mu Space. SpaceNews.com

Colorado Springs was the home of U.S. Space Command from the day it was activated in 1985 until Secretary Rumsfeld reorganized it under Strategic Command in 2002. Today, Colorado Springs remains the epicenter of the U.S....

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: bedrest study participants test their spacecraft piloting skills

Analysis of the new data from X-ray observations using NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft and archival data from the agency's Chandra X-ray space observatory, has yielded more insights into the nature of a pulsar wind nebula (PWN)...

Four years ago, an international team (USA, Japan and Europe) carried out an unprecedented suborbital space experiment called CLASP-1, motivated by theoretical investigations carried out at the IAC by Javier Trujillo Bue...

Two new probable gravitational waves--ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by cataclysmic cosmic events and first predicted by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago--have been detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravi...

University of Arkansas astrophysicists have taken an important step toward solving the mystery of how disk galaxies maintain the shape of their spiral arms. Their findings support the theory that these arms are created b...