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How long until we find evidence of life beyond Earth? If a panel of experts is on track with their estimates, it may be sooner than you think.

The company that operates the world's largest airplane has a new owner -- but we don't know who it is.

Astronomers have spotted Strontium in the aftermath of a collision between two neutron stars. This is the first time a heavy element has ever been identified in a kilonova, the explosive aftermath of these types of colli...

The nonprofit MILO Institute plans to begin revealing at the 2019 International Astronautical Congress some of the universities and government agencies around the world signing onto its plan to share the cost of deep spa...

WASHINGTON - Addvalue Innovation, a subsidiary of Addvalue Technologies of Singapore, delivered its first commercial Inter-satellite Data Relay System (IDRS) terminal to Capella Space, a San Francisco company developing ...

Astronomers dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have announced a new collaboration with scientists working on a NASA telescope.

The New Zealand Space Agency established in 2016 is moving quickly to develop a comprehensive strategy reflecting its priorities including sustainability, agility and collaboration. SpaceNews.com

Eutelsat said it is still working to understand what impact the power problem may have on the Eutelsat 5 West B satellite. SpaceNews.com

London-based Spacebit plans to send a rover small enough to explore lava tubes to the moon in 2021 on Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers love a hot mess -- at least when it can tell them more about how solar systems work.

The adventures continue.

NASA's suppliers for Artemis are working together more closely as the agency accelerates its moon plans to land humans on the surface by 2024, company representatives said.

Japanese lunar lander company ispace says it's on track to launch its first mission in 2021 while supporting an American partner on potential NASA missions. SpaceNews.com

As part of its planetary protection campaign, NASA is encouraging companies to establish a working group to establish standards to ensure spacecraft do not accidentally transfer extra-terrestrial life to Earth. SpaceNews...

NASA has drawn a woman on the moon to represent its effort to land the first American woman on the moon.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

The German Space Agency DLR and Teledyne Brown Engineering of Huntsville, Alabama, have started operation of a jointly funded hyperspectral imager attached to the exterior of the International Space Station. SpaceNews.co...

Media accreditation is open for Boeing's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) to the International Space Station, as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

A technology that has enabled ever-faster delivery of voice and data over the Internet and other telecommunications platforms could play a front-and-center role in NASA's quest to develop a super-small instrument for gat...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has passed over the targeted landing site of India's Vikram spacecraft and again been unable to spot the vehicle.

SpaceX will begin offering its Starlink broadband satellite internet service in 2020, according to SpaceNews.

Virgin Galactic will go public next week after shareholders in a holding company approved a merger with the suborbital spaceflight firm Oct. 23. SpaceNews.com