Space News

Trekkies at New York Comic Con got their first glimpse at two new trailers, one for "Star Trek: Picard" and one for "Star Trek: Discovery" Season 3, on Saturday (Oct. 5).

Scientists have discovered how water molecules can be regenerated on asteroids moving through space, in an exciting breakthrough that could extend to other bodies such as the moon.

With the first commercial satellite servicing spacecraft about to launch, industry executives argue that government agencies, primarily seen as developers of key servicing technologies, also need to be customers of those...

Eight briefcase-size satellites flying in a row may be key to improving forecasts of a hurricane's wind speed -- detecting whether it will make landfall as a Category 1 or a Category 5....

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, GEOShare is working to aggregate customers on a single Lockheed Martin A2100 bus that would supply between 250 and 500 gigabits of total capacity. SpaceNews.com

The Nobel Prize in physics this year has gone to two very different research threads -- and danced around some big societal issues, even as they celebrate distinguished work.

The launch vehicle market is changing rapidly as satellites of various sizes seek transportation to both traditional and nontraditional orbits. SpaceNews.com

An aerospace titan is putting some money into one of the leading lights of the nascent space tourism industry.

Comments from Billy Dee Williams and Sir Patrick Stewart revealed a major and common misconception about how many view space exploration.

Reference Article: Facts about the Pleiades star cluster.

Some 15 billion years ago the universe emerged from a hot, dense sea of matter and energy. As the cosmos expanded and cooled, it spawned galaxies, stars, planets and life --

Comments from Billy Dee Williams and Sir Patrick Stewart revealed a major and common misconception about how many view space exploration.

Boeing announced Oct. 8 that its venture capital arm will make a small but strategic investment in Virgin Galactic, one which could eventually support high-speed point-to-point travel. SpaceNews.com

For the first time ever, meat was created in space -- but no animals were harmed in the making of this 3D bioprinted "space beef."

The mysterious Fermi bubbles at the center of the Milky Way may have been caused by a gargantuan nuclear explosion 3.5 million years ago, new research suggests.

ESA Space Science:

Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic fields and particles like ions, cosmic rays and electrons exert on one another when they flow and collide, was recent...

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: A closed-loop toilet system demonstrates space technology at ESA Open Day in the Netherlands

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists for unraveling the structure and history of the universe and for changing our perspective of Earth's place in it.

A skywatcher's doubleheader is on tap this week as a pair of meteor showers will peak on back-to-back nights.

This year's Nobel Prize for Physics honoured Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, Swiss astronomers who proved the existence of a planet orbiting a star far beyond the Earth's solar system.

This Autumn is seeing a number of experiments controlling robots from afar, with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano directing a robot in The Netherlands and engineers in Germany controlling a rover in Canada.