Space News

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: The Multiscale Boiling experiment on the International Space Station starts generating bubbles

After years of construction, China’s new radio telescope is in action. The telescope, called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope) has double the collecting power of the Arecibo Observatory in Pu...

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano became the first DJ in space when he performed a set from the International Space Station.

SpaceX's Starlink launch cadence will likely average "two a month," in addition to customer launches, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president and chief operating officer, said. SpaceNews.com

For consumer adoption of broadband from satellites in low or medium Earth orbits, inexpensive flat-panel antennas are "critical," said Pradman Kaul, Hughes Network Systems president and CEO. SpaceNews.com

With the size and growth of commercial markets uncertain, launch companies are looking to government agencies to varying degrees for stability and funding for the development of new vehicles. SpaceNews.com

In anticipation of many Moon landings to come, NASA is testing an autonomous lunar landing system in the Mojave Desert in California. The system is called a “terrain relative navigation system.” It’s being tested o...

Step outside this week as soon as darkness falls and look directly overhead, and you will see the famous and very distinctive trio of bright stars collectively known as The Summer Triangle.

There may not be an obvious connection between rewilding and machine learning, but as highlighted today at ESA's ɸ-week, a project in the Netherlands uses satellite data and new digital technology to understand how a na...

Veteran launch provider Arianespace's parent Ariane Group has teamed up with the French space agency CNES for ArianeWorks, a project for reusable rockets.

Structures in the corona called "null-point topologies" may help solve two long-standing solar mysteries --

Commercial orders of geostationary communications satellites have reached double-digits for the first time since 2016, but a return to former buying rates remains unlikely, experts say. SpaceNews.com

Reliable maps of sea-ice conditions and forecasts are of vital importance for maritime safety, safe navigation and planning. The continued retreating and thinning of Arctic sea ice calls for a more effective way of produ...

Two University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein's equations to model the growth of the universe.

An international team of astronomers has pinpointed the origin of a runaway high-velocity star named PG 1610+062 and determined that it was likely ejected from its birth cluster with the help of a mid-mass black hole (MM...

The field of astronomy has been revolutionized, thanks to the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). Since the initial detection was made in February of 2016 by scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitat...

Russian astronomers have observed UGC 1378--an unusual, massive gas-rich galaxy with extended gaseous and low-surface brightness stellar discs. Results of the new research, presented in a paper published August 29, provi...

An unpiloted Japanese resupply ship will launch to the International Space Station today (Sept. 10) and you can watch it leave Earth live online courtesy of NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

There's no law of physics that outright forbids interstellar travel. But that doesn't necessarily make it easy, and it certainly doesn't mean we'll achieve it in our lifetimes, let alone this century.

This week is a great time to see the solar system's outermost gas giant planet, if you have a telescope and a little patience.

Astronaut and medical doctor Serena Auñón-Chancellor weighs in on how experiments on the ISS help medical research on Earth.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the multiple blazes that have broken out in northern New South Wales, Australia