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NASA has awarded a contract to a small business for the development of a cubesat designed to demonstrate the use of the unique orbit planned for the agency's lunar Gateway. SpaceNews.com

A Planet Earth-watching satellite has spotted a vast smoke plume from Saudi Arabian oil-processing facilities after a drone attack on Saturday (Sept. 14).

More than 500 people have travelled into space to date and, while we know a little about how life without gravity affects our physical health, we know almost nothing about how it affects our minds.

This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image takes us just south of the US border, to the region of Baja California in northwest Mexico. Its capital city, Mexicali, is visible top left of the image....

The first man on the moon could soon have a second NASA facility renamed in his memory. Lawmakers have introduced a bill to redesignate NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, for Neil Armstrong.

As the U.S. Federal Communications Commission prepares to decide how to reallocate some or all of the nation's satellite C-band spectrum for the coming wave of 5G mobile communications services, experts say appraising th...

Springtime on Earth can be a riotous affair, as plants come back to life and creatures large and small get ready to mate. Nothing like that happens on Mars, of course. But even on a cold world like Mars, springtime bring...

The addition of Aerojet to Northrop's team guarantees that the nation's only two manufacturers of large solid rocket motors will be part of the GBSD program. SpaceNews.com

"Ad Astra" star Brad Pitt talks about life in space with NASA astronaut Nick Hague, who recently screened the film at the International Space Station.

The six Expedition 60 crewmembers aboard the International Space Station began the workweek exploring how microgravity affects a variety of biological systems....

Rippling, dark-flecked sand dunes near Mars' north pole look like melting chocolate-chip ice cream in an image captured by the European-Russian Trace Gas Orbiter.

NASA's newest video from interns at the Johnson Space Center has a definite lunar flavor -- and it's feminine.

Branson: "Hopefully that will be a deterrent to an enemy state to not knock out satellites if America has a capability to replace them within 24 hours." SpaceNews.com

A Youtuber has proposed a rather interesting solution to the problem of microgravity and sending people to Mars - the Gravity Link Starship! The post Real Artificial Gravity for SpaceX’s Starship appeared first on Univ...

We could learn more about the fate of India's first moon lander soon.

Astronomers have discovered the most massive example yet of the dead stars known as neutron stars, one almost too massive to exist, a new study finds.

Astronomers are rushing to study what appears to be the first known interstellar comet -- and in some of the very earliest observations, it looks oddly familiar.

The metallic asteroid Psyche has mystified scientists because it is less dense than it should be, given its iron-nickel composition. Now, a new theory could explain Psyche's low density and metallic surface.

Iridium said Sept. 16 that the new seven-year, $738.5 million contract ensures continuity for voice, data, broadcast and other services to Defense Department and associated users. SpaceNews.com

For years, astronomers have looked up at the sky and speculated about the strange dimming behavior of Tabby's Star.

The great Saturn ring debate is far from settled, a new study suggests.

Star clusters are formed by the condensation of molecular clouds, masses of cold, dense gas that are found in every galaxy. The physical properties of these clouds in our own galaxy and nearby galaxies have been known fo...