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A shortage of Ukrainian Antonov aircraft raises the prospect of more delays for satellite projects already bogged down by supply chain issues. The post Antonov aircraft shortage threatens more delays for GEO satellites a...

The ongoing success of the multi-instrument optics alignment for NASA's Webb telescope's near-infrared instruments has moved the attention of the commissioning team to chill as we carefully monitor the cooling of the Mid...

Astroscale plans to resume an attempt to capture a satellite acting as a piece of debris in low Earth orbit despite losing half the servicer's eight thrusters. The post Astroscale to restart debris-removal demo with half...

First came the "Maggots." Then the "Bugs." Now the latest infestation to take over NASA's Astronaut Office has been identified. The 23rd group of astronaut candidates has their nickname, "The Flies."

The CHIME array and its partner institutions are getting an upgrade to enhance their ability to trace Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) back to their sources The post Canada's CHIME is Getting More Observatories to Search for Fas...

In just one night of observing, scientists detected a new record-breaker, the most distant megamaser known to date.

NASA has awarded ANSYS Inc of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, a contract to provide a suite of modeling and simulation tools including capabilities in the following engineering disciplines: structures, crash, thermal, fluids, ...

There is a trend of growing private sector capabilities to track objects and warn of potential conjunctions. The post Getting a jump on traffic: The sudden urgency of government-industry partnerships in space traffic man...

"Return To Space" is a new Netflix documentary chronicling SpaceX's role in returning America to crewed spaceflight

The world's largest International Dark Sky Reserve is coming to Texas and Mexico, thanks to a partnership between The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory, The Nature Conservancy, the International Dark-S...

Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational waves. Astronomers have been searching for these waves by using large radio telescopes to look for...

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, many considered international space cooperation safely insulated from geopolitical strife. The post Path to sustainable space unclear after Russia's Ukraine invasion appeared first on Space...

An international team of scientists have created a new tool for identifying possible radio transmissions from an extraterrestrial civilization The post If Aliens Were Sending us Signals, This is What They Might Look Like...

Megaconstellation startup E-Space is preparing to deploy the first of potentially hundreds of thousands of satellites on a Rocket Lab mission slated for no earlier than April 19. The post E-Space sheds more light on sust...

The public-private partnership is providing internet connectivity to Ukraine, whose cities have been besieged by Russian forces since February.

The surface of asteroid Bennu acts like an impact-absorbing crumple zone that protects the space rock from forming craters, a new study based on OSIRIS-REx observations reveals.

It may be possible to build a real, traversable wormhole, but only if our universe has extra dimensions, a team of physicists has found.

The seven-member Expedition 67 crew is gearing up for a pair of spacewalks scheduled for later this month while ensuring the International Space Station orbits Earth in tip-top shape....

Image: H a p p y W o r l d H e a l t h D a y Celebrated each year on 7 April, World Health Day shines a light on a health topic of concern. This year all eyes, including ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer's, are on the health...

Side-lit by the sun, its heavily cratered surface mired in shadow, the south pole of the moon represents a highly challenging lunar landing target. Italian ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori took to an advanced flight simulat...

A powerful radio-wave laser, called a "megamaser", has been observed by the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. The record-breaking find is the most distant megamaser of its kind ever detected, at about five billion light...