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EchoStar Corp. announced another delay in the launch of its Jupiter-3 communications satellite and the failure of two nanosatellites to reach their intended orbits, during a Feb. 23 quarterly earnings call. SpaceNews

The HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has done it again. The imaging team was able to capture the Perseverance rover as it descended through the Martian atmosphere, hanging under its parachute. Stunning. I...

Blue Canyon has received a contract option worth $26.5 million to produce six satellites for DARPA's Blackjack program. SpaceNews

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during its close flyby of the planet in July 2020.

Volcanic rock samples collected during NASA's Apollo missions bear the isotopic signature of key events in the early evolution of the Moon, a new analysis found. Those events include the formation of the Moon's iron core...

Binary star systems are everywhere. They make up a huge percentage of all known solar systems: from what we can tell, about half of all Sun-like stars have a binary partner. But we haven’t really had a chance to study ...

Cygnus X-1, the first black hole ever discovered, is significantly bigger than previously believed --

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or "head," 360 degrees, allowing the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument to captur...

SpaceX is switching out one of the three Raptor engines on its Starship SN10 prototype, likely pushing the vehicle's high-altitude test flight back a bit.

Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt said U.S. diplomats and military leaders are drafting language in support of an international effort to adopt rules of behavior in space. SpaceNews

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or "head," 360 degrees, allowing the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument to captur...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientist examined 11 Mars years of image data to understand the seasonal processes that create linear gullies on the slopes of the megadune in the Russell crater on Mars. In early s...

One lucky winner will be walking away with a commemorative U.S. Space Force silver coin, courtesy of the Space Store!

The Space Court Foundation has launched a new series titled Women of Color in Space! Their first interview with Ruvimbo Samanga is now available for viewing. The post The Space Court Foundation Presents: “Women of Colo...

A secret coded message was hidden on the gigantic parachute used to land the Perseverance rover safely on the surface on Mars. And no, it wasn't a clandestine message to the Martians. It was a message of inspiration for ...

More than a century ago, women called "human computers" changed our understanding of the universe. Now volunteers are making discoveries in their old notebooks.

New parallax measurements of Cygnus X-1 by the VLBA find it is more distant than we thought, and therefore more massive. The post Cygnus X-1 was the First Black Hole Ever Found. New Measurements Show it's Much More Massi...

A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that rather than the conventional formation scenarios involving 'normal' m...

An international team of scientists led by the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE) and the University of Aveiro shows that the heaviest black hole collision ever observed, produced by the gravitational-wave...

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft was berthed to the International Space Station's Earth-facing port of the Unity module at 7:16 a.m. EST Monday morning and subsequently bolted into place....

Satellite operator Inmarsat has hired the former president and chief executive of Nokia as its new chief executive, succeeding Rupert Pearce. SpaceNews

Using the radial velocity (RV) technique, astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth alien world as part of the HADES and CARMENES programs. The newfound exoplanet, designated GJ 740 b, orbits a bright star some 36 li...