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A smoke alarm sounded Thursday in Russia's segment of the International Space Station (ISS) and astronauts smelled "burning" on board, Russia's space agency and NASA said.

Jeff Friesen's latest Lego book shows space enthusiasts how to build little spacecraft, from more realistic vessels to science fiction dreamcraft.

Scientists detected a repeating radio signal near the center of the Milky Way, and it's unlike anything else they've ever studied.

Optical communications startup BridgeComm announced a strategic partnership with satellite component supplier Space Micro to work together on the design, development and testing of optical communications technology for U...

China conducted its 33rd launch of 2021 early Thursday, successfully sending the ChinaSat-9B communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit. SpaceNews

White dwarfs are supposed to be dead remnants of stars, doomed to simply fade away into the background. But new observations show that some are able to maintain some semblance of life by wrapping themselves in a layer of...

SpaceX's Inspiration4 spaceflight will launch a Kings of Leon song and 50 other digital art NFTs to orbit next week.

"Star Trek: Prodigy," Paramount+'s second animated entry into the "Star Trek" universe, looks like it will be a lot of fun.

The current wave of space startups going public through mergers with special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) might lead to a round of industry consolidation as they snap up suppliers to obtain their technologies or...

Emirati fleet operator Yahsat has picked private equity-owned Cobham SATCOM to build the ground system for its next-generation Thuraya 4-NGS satellite. SpaceNews

Small satellite propulsion suppliers see opportunities in the military market as the Pentagon shifts focus to smallsats. SpaceNews

What do shooting stars and astronaut safety have in common?

Launch companies that have suffered from flat or declining traditional markets in recent years say they believe a surge of demand, primarily from satellite megaconstellations, will boost their businesses later this decad...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson joined federal government and industry leaders Thursday at a White House event highlighting sustainable aviation and the administration's focus on medium- and long-term goals to combat clim...

Rocket Lab says lockdowns in New Zealand caused by the latest surge of the coronavirus pandemic will postpone launches to at least October and cut its projected revenues for the year. SpaceNews

Optical communications startup Xenesis signed a memorandum of understanding with MBS Lab, the research group for Germany's Media Broadcast Satellite, Germany's largest teleport operator. SpaceNews

The four-person crew of SpaceX's all-civilian Inspiration4 mission has arrived in Florida to prep for next week's historic liftoff.

The U.S. military is demanding more advanced technologies to protect its tactical communications systems from sophisticated electronic attacks. SpaceNews

The first full trailer for season 2 of "Star Trek: Picard" has warped online and you can watch it here.

Eliminate speckling in space shots and reduce noise in astrophotography with these top tips.

Do aliens exist? Extraterrestrial life has never been discovered. However, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

In our solar system, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME) are the most spectacular eruptive activities. Large solar flares and CMEs may bring us disastrous space weather, destroy our satellite and navigation sys...