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ESA's Compact Antenna Test Range at its ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. This anechoic chamber is used to test space antennas of 1 m across or less, or else entire small satellites.

Collaborative observations with NASA's New Horizons mission have been ongoing at the Subaru Telescope since May 2020. Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), the wide field camera mounted on the prime focus of the Subaru Telescope, is ...

Two astronauts are concentrating on the final set of power upgrade spacewalks on the International Space Station beginning this week....

The pristine asteroid material collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft last year will come down to Earth less than five months from now, if all goes according to plan.

Earth has been sending probes to Mars for decades, and some missions are especially awe-inspiring.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 4:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 16, to provide an update on the status of the agency's James Webb Space Telescope, the world's next premier infrared space observatory and the large...

OneWeb received permission from a U.S. bankruptcy court Friday to pay its satellite vendor to resume building spacecraft for the company's broadband megaconstellation. SpaceNews

I forget the Sun is a star. I think we all do sometimes. It's easy to take for granted. The Sun is that glowing thing that rises in the morning and sets in the evening that we don't generally pay attention to as we go ab...

A strange white dwarf star hurtling through the Milky Way may be the survivor of a "partial supernova," a new study finds.

A new generation of optically "fast" telescopes, connected to compact high-resolution video cameras, is poised to disrupt amateur astronomy -- in a good way.

Since late May, the space industry, like organizations and individuals around the world, has been responding to the Black Lives Matter movement and calls for racial justice. SpaceNews

As exciting and thrilling as it is to watch all the historic footage from the Apollo Moon landings, you have to admit, the quality is sometimes not all that great. Even though NASA has worked on restoring and enhancing s...

Virgin Galactic announced July 15 it is bringing in a Disney executive as the company's new chief executive officer, with the company's longtime chief executive moving into a new role. SpaceNews

The primary markets for Airbus U.S. Space & Defense are military aircraft, geospatial intelligence and satellites. SpaceNews

Fleet operator SES filed a claim July 14 against Intelsat seeking at least $1.8 billion in damages for Intelsat's withdrawal from the C-Band Alliance. SpaceNews

The National Space Society will hold "A Day in Space" Thursday (July 16) virtually on multiple platforms, with speakers such as Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and exoplanet scientist Sara Seager.

Astronomers have discovered one type of growing supermassive black hole masquerading as another, thanks to a suite of telescopes including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The true identity of these black holes helps so...

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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

This was the NRO's 54th launch since 1996 and its first launch on a Minotaur 4. SpaceNews

A veteran of multiple NASA missions to Mars, Northern Arizona University planetary scientist Christopher Edwards will closely watch the upcoming launch of a space probe to Mars that carries a unique new instrument he co-...

A Northrop Grumman Minotaur IV rocket launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia today (July 15), carrying the NROL-129 mission to orbit for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.