Space News

Discover our week through the lens (28 October - 1 November 2019).

The Expedition 61 crew harvested a space-grown crop today aboard the International Space Station. The orbital lab residents also tested robotics systems before exploring blood pressure and time perception in microgravity...

An exoplanet may seem like the perfect spot to set up housekeeping, but before you go there, take a closer look at its star.

More than half a dozen House lawmakers said Oct. 29 the FCC, not the satellite industry, should conduct an upcoming auction to transfer C-band spectrum to the 5G wireless industry. SpaceNews.com

Boeing and SpaceX are on schedule to perform two critical tests of their commercial crew vehicles in the next week with hopes that both vehicles will be ready to carry astronauts by early next year. SpaceNews.com

Forget reheated, freeze-dried space grub. Astronauts are about to get a new test oven for baking chocolate chip cookies from scratch.

With revenue down and its just-launched satellite in trouble, Eutelsat Communications is preparing to layoff around 100 of its 1,000 employees,freeze wages and suspend hiring as it looks to return to growth. SpaceNews.co...

The chairman of the Senate's space subcommittee said Oct. 31 that his counterparts in the House seemed uninterested in working on legislation to modernize commercial space regulations. SpaceNews.com

NASA has awarded ThunderCat Technology LLC of Reston, Virginia, to provide ServiceNow products, renewals and support services for purchase when needed with a Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurements (SEWP) Catalog.

The secret hearts of exploding stars are being dragged out into the light.

Scientists have discovered a black hole that has been hiding in the dark.

Black holes are an important part of how astrophysicists make sense of the universe--so important that scientists have been trying to build a census of all the black holes in the Milky Way galaxy.

The origin of the universe started with the Big Bang, but how the supernova explosion ignited has long been a mystery--until now.

A groundbreaking technology that would allow NASA to effectively cool tightly packed instrument electronics and other spaceflight gear is unaffected by weightlessness, and could be used on a future spaceflight mission.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a cosmic jack-o'-lantern.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Exploring the influence of galactic winds from a distant galaxy called Makani, UC San Diego's Alison Coil, Rhodes College's David Rupke and a group of collaborators from around the world made a novel discovery. Published...

Though it looks like it to us, Jupiter's clouds do no form a flat surface. Some of its clouds rise up above the surrounding cloud tops. The two bright spots in the right center of this image are much higher than the surr...

It's a classic Halloween tale. A group of ghost hunters visit a grand old house that is rumored to be haunted. But after thoroughly exploring, they leave disappointed: there are no ghosts to be seen. Only later, when loo...

Pumpkins and Halloween always go together. But check out these cosmic gourds from NASA JPL's 2019 carving contest!

Some experts are alarmed by plans to launch tens of thousands of revolutionary telecommunications satellites in coming years --

Image: A highly autonomous self-driving shuttle has entered service at ESA's technical heart. Its official inauguration took place on Tuesday, when it was assigned a suitably spacey name -'Orbiter'- chosen through an emp...