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When a NASA engineer announces a new and revolutionary engine that could take us to the stars, it’s easy to get excited. But the demons are in the details, and when you look at the actual article things look far less p...

Virgin Galactic lifted the curtain Wednesday (Oct. 16) on its new line of Under Amour "spacewear" for passengers on suborbital trips aboard its SpaceShipTwo vehicles.

With the help of a multitude of original developments, scientists hope to research the processes of birth and propagation of very-high-energy gamma rays, and in the future, to find mysterious dark matter particles that h...

In order to be considered habitable, a planet needs to have liquid water. Cells, the smallest unit of life, need water to carry out their functions. For liquid water to exist, the temperature of the planet needs to be ri...

Maj. Gen. Gallagher: The problem today is insufficient capacity and high latency in satellite links. SpaceNews.com

The price of a ticket to space on Virgin Galactic's suborbital SpaceShipTwo will likely increase as the private spaceflight company gears up for its first commercial flights.

According to recent filings, SpaceX is hoping to send an additional 30,000 Starlink satellites to orbit in the coming years. The post SpaceX Files a Request to Launch Another 30,000 Satellites for Starlink, on Top of the...

Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. The brightest ones are so luminous they outshine a trillion stars. But why? And what does their brightness tell us about the galaxies that host them? To try to a...

OQ Technology of Luxembourg used GomSpace's two GOM-X4 cubesats in low Earth orbit to demonstrate waveforms for a future constellation. SpaceNews.com

Viasat says that co-building its ViaSat-3 satellites with Boeing has given the company experience it can leverage to multiply the capacity achievable with a next-generation ViaSat-4 system. SpaceNews.com

A key group of congressional budgeters have big questions for NASA chief Jim Bridenstine about his moon-landing goals -- and he doesn't have the answers they want.

Somebody is lying about their age.

NASA's venerable Hubble Space Telescope turned its eyes to interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov and caught a surprise: The interloper looks a lot like comets from our own solar system.

SpaceX's Starlink internet-satellite constellation may end up being even bigger than we thought -- a lot bigger.

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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best pictures yet of our newest interstellar visitor.

SpaceX wants spectrum access for nearly four times as many satellites as originally planned for its high-speed internet constellation, the company and a UN agency confirmed Wednesday.

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): ** Synopsis: For the first time, astronomers using ALMA have witnessed 3D motions of gas in a planet-forming disk. At three locations in the disk around a young star called HD...

The birthplaces of planets are disks made out of gas and dust. Astronomers study these so-called protoplanetary disks to understand the processes of planet formation. Beautiful images of disks made with the Atacama Large...

NASA announced Oct. 16 that it has hired Doug Loverro, a former Defense Department official responsible for space policy, to lead its human spaceflight programs. SpaceNews.com

NASA is already pulling together plans for what could become its first long-lived robotic rover on the moon's surface, designed to sniff out water and targeting a landing date of 2022.

The first astronauts scheduled to fly on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft have provided a first look at their mission patch.