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OneWeb told its staff to leave the Russian-run site on Wednesday (March 2), a company executive told SpaceNews.

When two neutron stars collide, it creates a kilonova. The event causes both gravitational waves and emissions of electromagnetic energy. In 2017 the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave observatories detected a merger of two n...

OneWeb ordered staff to leave Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday amid an impasse over the launch of its latest batch of satellites on a Soyuz rocket, an executive for the U.K.-based company said. The...

Two NASA astronauts are assembling gear today they will install on the International Space Station during an upcoming spacewalk....

NASA will participate in the 2022 Commodity Classic conference, America's largest farmer-led, farmer-focused educational and agricultural experience.

Science instruments and other hardware for the spacecraft will come together in the mission's final phase before a launch to Jupiter's icy moon Europa in 2024.

The decades-old space partnership between Russia and the West may be going up in smoke, another victim of the invasion of Ukraine.

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said the 'space order of battle' is driving budget discussions in preparation for the 2024 request. The post Kendall: Space 'order of battle’ a top priority in U.S. defense budg...

Neutron stars release powerful warm winds after chowing down on a nearby stellar companion, new research shows.

SFX Magazine sits down with "Star Trek: Picard's" Jeri Ryan to learn what's on tap for Seven of Nine in the new season.

In preparation for missions to Mars, NASA and HeroX have launched their third challenge for dealing with space waste: The Trash-to-Gas Challenge! The post NASA Wants Your Ideas on How to Keep Trash-Burning Reactors Worki...

Europe's gravitational wave detector is expected to launch in 2037 to push forward a rapidly growing science field.

In situ resource utilization (ISRU) is still a very early science. Therefore, the technology utilized in it could be improved upon. One such technology that created one of the most useful materials for ISRU (oxygen) is M...

An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. Scheduled to launch in...

The New Horizons team names point to three prominent features on the odd, binary world.

A space telescope making the largest ever map of black holes in the universe has been switched off after Germany decided to discontinue all science cooperation with Russia to protest against the invasion of Ukraine.

The sharp mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope will finally be able to probe into the atmospheres of sub-Neptunes.

On Feb. 4, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 satellites as part of Elon Musk's Starlink internet project, most of which burned up in the atmosphere days later. The cause of this more than US$50 million failure was a geomagnetic s...

Scientists from around the world have published data that will help astronomers better understand what they see in space, and model how new stars and planets form.

Image: Aerial antenna for Venus mission test

In space, no one can hear your scream... which is a relief for anyone playing any of these space horror games.

Astronomers from the University of La Laguna, Spain and elsewhere have performed spectroscopic observations of an early B-type supergiant star known as 2MASS J20395358+4222505. Results of this observational campaign, pub...