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Starlink's lead executive in India said he resigned Friday for personal reasons, a month after the country's government ordered SpaceX to stop preselling the satellite broadband service until it gives regulatory approval...

The SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle is pictured docked to the International Space Station while orbiting 265 miles above Europe....

A international team of astronomers, using observatories all over the world (and one in space), discovered 70 new rogue planets - the largest sample ever! The post Astronomers Find 70 Planets Without Stars Floating Free ...

The five astronauts and two cosmonauts of Expedition 66 started the first work week of 2022 researching microgravity science, reviewing Crew Dragon emergency procedures and ramping up for a spacewalk....

McGill University scientists have developed a new system for sharing the enormous amount of data being generated by the CHIME radio telescope in its search for fast radio bursts (FRBs), the puzzling extragalactic phenome...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield.

As eyes turn to the deployment of a new space telescope, the Astronauts Memorial Foundation is shining light on the last astronauts to visit one, offering Hubble coins with STS-125 crew autographs.

Plus dates of all the other sci-fi coming to the small screen in 2022

If you felt a little more tension - and perhaps more goosebumps — in the Universe today, it's probably because the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield is now completely and successfully deployed! All five layers of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its tennis-court sized sunshield Tuesday, a critical milestone for the success of its mission to study every phase of cosmic history, NASA said.

The Webb team has completed tensioning for the first three layers of the observatory's kite-shaped sunshield, 47 feet across and 70 feet long.

Orion offers you a spectacular firework display to celebrate the holiday season and the new year with this new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). But no need to worry, this iconic constellation is neithe...

Black holes really are giant fuzzballs, a new study says.

The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft's 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), Argentinian astronomers have investigated a massive molecular clump known as AGAL35 (or AGAL G035.1330'00.7450). Results of the study, published December 27 on the arXiv p...

Elon Musk's stance is overly optimistic. Space is big, but LEO is not big enough to safely accommodate tens of billions of satellites. SpaceNews

A persistent obstacle to a more complete understanding of Earth's auroral activity is characterizing the structure of auroral arcs in 3D. In situ observations, such as spacecraft transits, can directly observe only a nar...

After a year marked by little launch activity and one high-profile failure, the head of India's space program says he expects much more in 2022, including an uncrewed test flight for its human spaceflight program. SpaceN...

Scientists just collected the first measurements of violent eruptions in extremely dense magnetic stars called magnetars.

The roots of floriography -- the symbolic language of flowers -- run deep throughout Europe and Asia, but the question of its origin is thorny.

Spacecraft controllers started the final steps in the deployment of the sunshield of the James Webb Space Telescope Jan. 3 after fixing two minor issues with the spacecraft. SpaceNews

New research has road-tested a way to spot some of the most voracious black holes of all, making it easier to find them buried deep in the hearts of distant galaxies.