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The Air Force wants to work with multiple satcom providers that are currently building LEO constellations SpaceNews.com

The space industry's primary hardware problem is its need for a "fully rapidly reusable orbital rocket," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Nov. 5 at U.S. Air Force Space Pitch Day where he was a surprise guest. "This is the holy...

The Earth may be entering an era in which natural and human-generated fire together are reshaping the planet.

On Tuesday (Nov. 5), Boeing delivered a proposal to NASA for a crewed lunar lander to fly astronauts to the moon in 2024 as part of the agency's Artemis program.

Iceye, the Finnish radar satellite constellation operator, announced an agreement Nov. 6 with RS Metric, a satellite imagery and geospatial analytics company, to provide data on iron ore inventories to the commodities ma...

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a new NASA authorization bill Nov. 6 that would extend the life of the International Space Station and direct NASA to have an upgraded version of the Space Launch System ready by...

An estimated 53.6% of the world's population now has access to the internet, according to a new report from the International Telecommunication Union. SpaceNews.com

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Nancy Atkinson ( @Nancy_A / @nancyatkinson_ut) Beth Johnson (@planetarypan) Veranika Klimovich ( @VeronikaSpace) This week we welcome Tiera and Myron Fletcher, Aerospace En...

Will you be planning a trip to an orbiting "space hotel" as early as 2025?

For 20 years, Véronique Dehant, a space scientist at University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has been working on understanding the Earth's core. In a few months, she will be able to compl...

The universe is a seemingly endless sea filled with stars, galaxies, and nebulae. In it, we see patterns and constellations that have inspired stories throughout history. But there is one cosmic pattern we still don’t ...

It took just fractions of a second.

SpaceX has fired up the rocket booster that will ferry the company's next batch of Starlink satellites into space.

A new U.S. resupply ship is open for business and the Expedition 61 crew has begun unloading over four tons of new science experiments and station hardware....

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has conducted detailed observations of the dusty star-forming galaxy MMJ100026.36+021527.9, better known as MAMBO-9. The...

Tissue engineering is a fast-developing field reaching new heights thanks to space research. An experiment on the International Space Station is opening up possibilities to grow artificial blood vessels for surgery on hu...

Scientists have spent long enough looking for proof of alien life that the little buggers, if they do exist, probably aren't going to be easy to identify.

Both SpaceX and NASA have ideas about how to get humans to the Red Planet, but the founder of the Mars Society says there's a better way to do it.

Beloved stand-up comedian and "Star Trek: Discovery" actor Tig Notaro is proud to be in the Trek universe, but isn't so sure she'd fly to space herself.

Each flight of SpaceX's big Mars-colonizing spacecraft will have a very small price tag, if all goes according to plan.

The U.K. Space Agency will provide $9.5 million for infrastructure at a British airport that seeks to host Virgin Orbit's air-launch system. SpaceNews.com

Sudan's first ever satellite for conducting research in military, economic and space technology has been launched by China, the northeast African country's ruling body said Tuesday.