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Elon Musk and SpaceX appear to be gearing up for a high-altitude hop test with the SN8 before the end of October! The post The SpaceX Starship Could be Making its Biggest Hop Yet (and a Belly-Flop) Next Month! appeared f...

The Cassini mission to Saturn took many images of Mimas, one of the smallest moons in the solar system. And now you can view it in all its icy, cratered glory, thanks to the work of Kevin Gill. Mimas is perhaps best know...

Solar Cycle 25 has begun. During a media event on Tuesday, experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discussed their analysis and predictions about the new solar cycle--and how the ...

As Earth's twin, Venus offers much in the search for life and habitable worlds.

The 1,250-kilogram NTS-3 satellite is being built by L3Harris under an $84 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. SpaceNews

We're officially nine months into solar cycle 25, scientists have confirmed, and it will likely look much like its predecessor, which ran from 2008 to 2019.

Massive galaxies like our Milky Way gain mass by absorbing smaller galaxies. The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud are irregular dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way. Both th...

Some galaxies are too small, and some galaxies are too big, while others are just right. A new survey of the nearby Virgo cluster has potentially revealed why extreme galaxies are the wrong size, and how they might be co...

Solar Cycle 25 has begun. During a media event on Tuesday, experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discussed their analysis and predictions about the new solar cycle - and how the...

The second season of the live-action "Star Wars" spin off is set to arrive on Oct. 30.

Brandywine Photonics is conducting a design study for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of a constellation of hundreds of small weather satellites. SpaceNews

Industry executives said space capabilities can't be achieved with a single product or by a single company. SpaceNews

Despite the successful demonstration of a launch to polar orbit from Cape Canaveral, the U.S. Space Force doesn't foresee shifting launches to those orbits there from Vandenberg Air Force Base. SpaceNews

An international team of astronomers using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope has reported what may be the first intact planet found closely orbiting a white dwarf, th...

Glen was in his algebra class in New Jersey when a teacher ran in and said something terrible had just happened. Daniel was also in a math class, but in Wyoming, when word came to turn on the TV. Steven was at his Califo...

SpaceNews is seeking an experienced reporter to join our team of award-winning journalists to cover key developments in the commercial space sector. SpaceNews

Bruno: "This is is just shocking in terms of the scale and ubiquity of this threat." SpaceNews

The European Space Agency on Sept. 15 finalized a contract worth 129.4 million euros ($153.3 million) with German satellite manufacturer OHB to build its Hera asteroid spacecraft with a pan-European consortium. SpaceNews

Some far-off alien planets could be made of diamonds, scientists say in a new study.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

In a little more than a decade, samples of rover-scooped Martian soil will rocket to Earth.

Fred Kennedy, former Space Development Agency director, is the new president of Momentus, a Silicon Valley company preparing to transport satellites in orbit. SpaceNews