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Switzerland-based technology provider ABB said Feb. 16 it is supplying multispectral imaging systems for EarthDaily Analytics' (EDA) planned fleet of 10 satellites. The post ABB gets $30 million order for EarthDaily imag...

Data captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft is revealing incredible new images of Jupiter and its moon Ganymede.

The European Union is moving ahead with its proposed broadband constellation despite two negative internal assessments. The post European Union advances broadband constellation despite negative assessments appeared first...

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has directed the Space Force to look broadly at military requirements for overhead surveillance that could be met by commercial constellations of satellites in low Earth orbit. The post ...

A group of physicists has announced one of the highest performance atomic clocks ever made.

The collective activity of life--all of the microbes, plants, and animals--have changed planet Earth.

It's first light for one of the newest space observatories! The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer team has released their first image, taken after a month-long commissioning phase for the spacecraft. And it's a beauty. ...

A Russian resupply ship is targeting the International Space Station for a cargo delivery early Thursday....

The water that Earth has may have been here since the planet formed, and not delivered later by collisions with icy comets, a new study finds.

An astronaut who launched on the first space shuttle to fly with a full crew and two crew members who flew on the last space shuttle to launch will be inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Video: 00:12:41 ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher speaks at the start of the ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level, part of the Space Summit in Toulouse, on 16 February 2022. Watch the other Space Summit videos.

Video: 00:08:47 ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano presents the European Astronauts' Manifesto during the Space Summit in Toulouse, on 16 February 2022. Watch the other Space Summit videos.

A group of students has confirmed that a rocket stage poised to hit the moon next month is from a Chinese Long March launcher, not a SpaceX Falcon 9 as originally thought.

Cooling things down in space is trickier than it might sound. But that is exactly the process the James Webb telescope is going through right now. Getting down to cryogenic temperature is imperative for its infrared imag...

Hunt down the Mandalorian with the Lego Star Wars Imperial Light Cruiser.

A supermassive black hole masked by a cloud of cosmic dust was found at the center of an active galaxy in new images from the European Southern Observatory.

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the center of the galaxy Messier 77 that is hiding a supermassive black hole. The findings have ...

Students from Colorado will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

The United States needs to implement a holistic Space Environment Management (SEM) program, and the most important missing element of that program is the development of remediation capabilities that can remove debris fro...

Video: 00:02:19 As part of Agenda 2025, ESA will take preparatory steps towards a sample return mission from the moons of giant planets, and will foster innovation by challenging commercial companies to develop a next ge...

It's probably no surprise that keeping healthy in space is incredibly important. And without the typical resources found on Earth, creative solutions have to be explored.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Wednesday he appointed new members to the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), which provides leadership counsel and advice on a variety of important and complex agency programs and topic...