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SpaceX successfully test-fired a Falcon 9 rocket in Florida today (May 13), setting the stage for a predawn launch of a a new fleet of Starlink internet satellites this weekend.

NASA now expects the first launch of the Space Launch System to take place in late 2021, with the coronavirus pandemic at least partially contributing to the latest delays. SpaceNews.com

Satellite operator Intelsat, which launched the world's first communications satellite in 1965, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to ease some debt and join an FCC spectrum clearing program.

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is less than two weeks from launching astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time, but some big obstacles still stand in the way.

The X-37B will be going to space again this Saturday to test a number of experiments, many of which are military in nature and classified! The post Space Force is About to Launch its Mysterious X-37B Spaceplane Again app...

Last month, Comet ATLAS shattered skywatchers' hopes of a brilliant display when it began crumbling -- but scientists have spotted a new serendipitous opportunity to study its rubble.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully folded and stowed into the same configuration it will have when loaded onto an Ariane 5 rocket for launch next year.

Like crystal balls for the universe's deeper mysteries, galaxies and other massive space objects can serve as lenses to more distant objects and phenomena along the same path, bending light in revelatory ways.

Intelsat filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy May 13. Join SpaceNews Editor-in-Chief Brian Berger and Staff Writer Caleb Henry for a live discussion with a panel of veteran analysts. SpaceNews.com

In his new book, "What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin," author Donovan Moore tells the story of a young British scientist at the forefront of astrophysics.

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that the Earth-like planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are not significantly misaligned with the rotation of the star. This is an important result for understanding th...

The dwarf planet’s blue-tinged air may punch far above its weight --

The first NASA astronauts to launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket will have more than one new ride designed by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: a Tesla Model X.

Intelsat, the world's second largest satellite operator by revenue, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late May 13 as a means to ease its nearly $15 billion debt load and participate in an FCC spectrum auction. S...

For some years now, scientists have been puzzling over why the north magnetic pole has been making a dash towards Siberia. Thanks, in part, to ESA's Swarm satellite mission, scientists are now more confident in the theor...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA is making several changes to its plans to return humans to the surface of the moon by 2024, including launching the first two elements of the lunar Gateway together and adding a critical demonstration to the first c...

Satellite operator Intelsat filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy overnight as part of a financial restructuring. The company said it had lined up $1 billion of new financing, along with existing cash, that will fund ongoing o...

A laser light shone through the dark could power robotic exploration of the most tantalizing locations in our solar system: the permanently-shadowed craters around the moon's poles, believed to be rich in water ice and o...

When the New Horizons spacecraft passed by Pluto in 2015, one of the many fascinating features its images revealed was that this small, frigid world in the distant solar system has a hazy atmosphere. Now, new data helps ...

String theorists are shifting focus to solve some rather sticky problems in physics.

Pluto's thin, blue-tinged air may not collapse when the dwarf planet is far from the sun.