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Great for beginners or expert stargazers alike, Star Walk 2 is an informative guide for viewing the night sky - even the completely free version.

Number 13 was good luck for NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity, as the tenacious little craft seamlessly completed its 13th flight on the Red Planet on Saturday (Sept. 4).

It's official: NASA's Perseverance rover has collected its first-ever Mars sample.

The AI-powered robot CIMON has received a software update before an upcoming round of more complex experiments at the International Space Station.

NASA's Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil.

British satellite operator Inmarsat plans to spend $100 million over the next five years preparing to enter the increasingly competitive low-Earth-orbit market. SpaceNews caught up with Todd McDonell, Inmarsat's presiden...

Starbridge Venture Capital is set to announce Sept. 8 that it has closed its second fund with $12.1 million in new capital. SpaceNews

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs is poised to assist the international community in tackling the challenges posed by an increasingly diverse set of actors launching and operating spacecraft. SpaceNews

SpaceX plans to introduce a new version of its user terminal for its Starlink system later this year that will be less expensive to produce while also scaling up production. SpaceNews

NASA will hold a virtual media briefing Friday, Sept. 10, at noon EDT to provide an update on the agency's Perseverance Mars rover, which recently completed its first successful rock sampling.

Companies offering smallsat launch services argue there is no "magic" price per kilogram that allows them to unlock greater demand, with customers willing to trade off price for responsiveness or other capabilities. Spac...

How bad is the drought in the western United States? A stunning depiction of the record dry spell comes in images of Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. NASA satellite images, below, ...

Companies that provide low Earth orbit satellite broadband view the U.S. Defense Department as a key customer but are being challenged to make their networks compatible with government ground systems and user terminals. ...

Kymeta said Sept. 7 that it successfully tested its u8 broadband terminal on OneWeb's low-Earth-orbit constellation, achieving 200 megabits per second (Mbps) downlink speeds ahead of the network's partial launch this yea...

As Hurricane Larry churned through the Atlantic Ocean this weekend, astronauts at the International Space Station kept a watchful eye on the storm from space.

Companies that operate both geostationary satellites and low Earth orbit constellations say they see opportunities to acquire complementary firms but cautioned that a long-projected consolidation of the industry isn't li...

Video: 00:18:05 Thomas Pesquet took part in a discussion with the EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton, and the EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevicius. The inflight cal...

New research shows that other sunlike stars in our galaxy aren’t so kind to their planets. Up to a quarter of them may consume planets before they even establish a solar system. That consumption leaves behind a distinc...

These are the techniques, times and tools you'll need to photograph the moon using a camera.

The Kuiper Belt is a disk of small icy bodies, thought to be remnants of the early Solar System, that circles the Sun from the orbit of Neptune (about 30 astronomical units, AU, from the Sun) to about 50 AU. KBOs orbit a...

Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein will be a spectacle for more than a decade to come, even though its discovery was a matter of luck.

Based on the Gaia DR2, the Stellarium Mobile Plus app provides access to the most comprehensive celestial database around.