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Kymeta Corp. announced the acquisition Aug. 18 of Lepton Global Solutions LLC, a Virginia-based satellite services specialist. Under the terms of the deal, Lepton Global Solutions will become a wholly owned Kymeta subsid...

One of the truly unsung heroes of the Apollo program has passed away at age 95. Donald D. Arabian, Chief of the Apollo Test Division, headed the Mission Evaluation Room (MER), which was responsible for solving in-flight ...

A team of astronomers from India has performed deep near-infrared photometric observations of an open cluster known as Czernik 3. The study provides important information about the properties of Czernik 3, suggesting tha...

Armagno was commissioned into the Space Force and promoted to three-star general Aug. 17 in a ceremony at the Pentagon. SpaceNews

Equinoxes occur twice a year when the sun is directly above the equator, and signal herald the beginning of spring and autumn.

Canada's robotic arm is poised to remove Japan's ninth and final H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-9) from the International Space Station on Tuesday....

The United Arab Emirates' first-ever interplanetary spacecraft, Hope, has nailed its initial post-launch course correction, pointing the mission toward Mars for its February arrival.

Using ALMA, a European team of astronomers was able to observe a galaxy as it looked 12 billion years ago and were surprised to see that it looks a lot like how the Milky Way appears today. The post This Distorted Circle...

Japan's "white stork" has taken flight from the International Space Station for the last time.

Commercial fleet operator Arabsat of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia announced Aug. 18 it ordered a geostationary communications satellite from Airbus Defence and Space. SpaceNews

There's something very strange happening high above South America and the nearby Atlantic Ocean, and NASA is on the case.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope:

An asteroid flew by Earth at just 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) away.

SpaceX successfully launched 58 Starlink internet satellites and with three small Planet SkySats today (AUg. 18), then nailed a rocket landing at sea.

How complete is our census of the Sun's closest neighbors? Astronomers and a team of data-sleuthing volunteers participating in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a citizen science project, have discovered roughly 100 cool world...

The next goals for human spaceflight should be industrialization and settlement, writes aerospace engineer Gary Oleson. SpaceNews

Humanity is still a long way away from a fully artificial intelligence system. For now at least, AI is particularly good at some specialized tasks, such as classifying cats in videos.  Now it has a new skill set: identi...

A new theory published today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters by scientists from Harvard University suggests that the sun may once have had a binary companion of similar mass. If confirmed, the presence of an early s...

Observations of magnetic fields in interstellar clouds made of gas and dust indicate that these clouds are strongly magnetized, and that magnetic fields influence the formation of stars within them. A key observation is ...

Skylo, a Silicon Valley satellite communications startup, announced a partnership Aug. 18 with Sony Semiconductor Israel, a company formerly known as Altair. SpaceNews

When the first message from an alien intelligence arrives, our experience with COVID-19 could help us plan a suitable response, says researchers.

Vast lava tubes pock the surface of the moon and Mars, and could protect explorers from the elements. But first someone needs to explore them.