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A "ring of fire" solar eclipse will briefly appear in parts of Africa and Asia this weekend, and if you aren't out there in person, you can take in the spectacular show online.

European smallsat builder GomSpace has entered a settlement agreement with Aerial & Maritime, a company Gomspace helped start and for which it had already built eight satellites. SpaceNews.com

In a new study, astronomers report the first detection of X-rays from a sun-like star in the earliest phase of its evolution.

Boeing announced late June 19 several changes in management of its work on the International Space Station and CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle. SpaceNews.com

Two years after a space policy directive gave it responsibility for space traffic management, the Commerce Department says it is making progress on implementing that policy as it continues to seek additional funding from...

Summer will arrive in the Northern Hemisphere on Saturday (June 20) at 5:43:32 p.m. EDT (21:43:32 GMT). The June solstice also marks the beginning of winter for those in the Southern Hemisphere.

Astronauts have taken to social media to commemorate today's holiday -- Juneteenth.

Is it time to head back to Neptune and its moon Triton? It might be. After all, we have some unfinished business there. It’s been 30 years since NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past the gas giant and its largest moo...

Roughly three decades ago, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Neptune and conduct a flyby of its largest moon, Triton. The stunning images and data it sent back revealed a strange and fascinating world, characterize...

A Clemson University scientist has joined forces with an international team of astronomers to identify periodic gamma-ray emissions from 11 active galaxies, paving the way for future studies of unconventional galaxies th...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Great Rift Valley, Kenya....

Two NASA astronauts are getting their spacesuits ready for a pair of spacewalks set to begin next week....

Solar power has become a focal point of the battle to mitigate climate change.  The potential of solar power is massive – Earth receives as much solar energy in an hour as all of humanity uses in a year.  Even with t...

Commercial flight trials that use satellite-enabled communications to reduce the environmental impact of flying are scheduled to commence once normal traffic levels resume.

In 1995 a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding--which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics--researched have discovered ...

Over the course of 182 days, the eROSITA X-ray telescope has completed its first full sweep of the sky which it embarked upon about a year ago. This new map of the hot, energetic universe contains more than one million o...

Smallsat builder Blue Canyon Technologies is moving employees into a recently opened factory designed to build 100 satellites a year, and more in the future. SpaceNews.com

Week in images: 15-19 June 2020 Discover our week through the lens

An ancient Syrian village was destroyed by a fireball from the sky, scientists suspect.

A first glimpse inside the prototype of China's next-generation crew-carrying spacecraft has been provided in Beijing following a successful uncrewed test flight in May.

The new head of NASA's human spaceflight programs says she's excited by the opportunity to lead efforts to return astronauts to the moon, but cautioned she could not guarantee that could be accomplished by the end of 202...

Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system, might resemble some of the watery moons around Jupiter and Satu...