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Inmarsat is launching legal action over the Dutch government's plan to auction 3.5 GHz spectrum, which the British satellite operator uses for maritime safety services. SpaceNews

It took a little help from the full moon to free the massive Ever Given cargo ship from its perch stranded across the Suez Canal.

If you’re looking for doomsday, you can forget about asteroid Apophis. The latest radar observations have effectively ruled out any possibility of this near-Earth object (NEO) hitting Earth for the foreseeable future. ...

SpaceX may attempt to launch its newest Starship rocket prototype today (March 29) and you'll be able to watch it live if it happens.

NASA held an online industry briefing Tuesday (March 23) to discuss its plans to help private space stations get up and running in Earth orbit.

What if one mission could study the gravitational ripples triggered by some of the most violent events in the universe -- on the way to observing the least-known planets of our solar system?

NASA officials say the agency is still planning to make selections as part of its Human Landing System (HLS) program by the end of next month as it takes into account the reduced funding for the program. SpaceNews

OneWeb plans to start offering broadband from space in the Arctic region this fall, a capability the company hopes will attract military customers. SpaceNews

Light coming from an explosion in the early universe has illuminated a black hole that astronomers think could expand their understanding of how the celestial objects form.

SpaceX has postponed the latest test flight of its prototype interplanetary Starship rocket from the company's south Texas facility, Elon Musk said Monday.

As SpaceX gears up for another test flight of a Starship prototype, the Federal Aviation Administration is facing new scrutiny from Congress for how it handled SpaceX's violation of its launch license on an earlier test ...

With NASA preparing to send humans to Mars in the 2030s, researchers are studying the physical effects of spending long periods in space. Now a new study by scientists at UT Southwestern shows that the heart of an astron...

Advances in space technologies were largely invisible to the public equity markets until July 2019, when Virgin Galactic announced its intent to go public through a merger with Social Capital Hedosophia, a Special Purpos...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last week received his first high-level briefing on space issues since taking office. SpaceNews

A new black hole breaks the record--not for being the smallest or the biggest--but for being right in the middle.

The sun is the most important source of energy for sustaining life on Earth, but it gives us a lot more than just light and heat. It also gives us solar storms.

SpaceX is preparing for a possible launch of its prototype interplanetary Starship rocket from the company's facility in south Texas on Monday afternoon.

Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are brightening night skies on our planet significantly more than previously understood.

In the recent past, space missions dedicated to the study of astrophysical signals in the high-energy spectrum revealed a series of enigmatic excesses not predicted by the theoretical models. In order to find an explanat...

This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 7678--a galaxy with one particularly prominent arm, located approximately 164 million light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus (the Winged Ho...

When stars are born, large clouds of gas and dust form that are known as circumstellar discs. Research by Ph.D. candidate Francisca Concha-Ramírez shows that strong radiation from neighboring stars soon evaporates the d...

The SwRI-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) orbiting Jupiter aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft has detected new faint aurora features, characterized by ring-like emissions, which expand rapidly over time. SwRI scientists det...