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Nations that don't have their own satellites rely on other countries, and those that want to develop their own satellite infrastructure are running out of options as space fills up.

For the first time, researchers have mapped elusive gas clouds that are believed to hold clues about galactic evolution and star formation in the early days of the universe.

Benchmark Space Systems announced plans May 24 to produce engines in the United Kingdom and to work with U.K. startup Space Forge to develop reusable chemical propulsion systems. The post Benchmark works with Space Force...

NASA’s spacesuits are getting old. The extra-vehicular mobility units – EMUs for short – were designed and built for spacewalks outside NASA’s space shuttles, which flew for the last time in 2011. Nowadays, the E...

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner successfully launched and rendezvoused with the ISS, a crucial step towards performing commercial crew and payload services! The post Starliner Launches Successfully, but Two of its Thrusters F...

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms trained on real astronomical observations now outperform astronomers in sifting through massive amounts of data to find new exploding stars, identify new types of galaxies and dete...

NASA astronauts living aboard the International Space Station closed the hatch of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft at 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday, May 25....

NASA has awarded a sole-source contract to the National Academy of Sciences of Washington to conduct studies on questions of national importance within the domain of NASA science and technology programs relating to space...

An astronomer proposes that the sun-like star 2MASS 19281982-2640123 is the origin of the Wow! Signal

In "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," episode 3, Una Chin-Riley goes full Captain Kirk, plus it turns out that she's actually an Illyrian.

A Japanese astronaut will visit NASA's planned Gateway space station, and perhaps the moon's surface, as part of a larger interagency agreement.

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid measuring more than a mile long will zoom past Earth this week, the largest asteroid expected to get relatively close to our planet in 2022.

Amazon Web Services announced May 24 it has picked 10 startups to join its second annual space accelerator program, which helps early-stage companies learn how to grow their businesses with cloud and analytic technologie...

A new Starlink plan lets customers pay more to skip waitlists to connect to its broadband satellites without a fixed address, although connection speeds for other users will be prioritized. The post Starlink's RV service...

The James Webb Space Telescope successfully watched a moving asteroid as the telescope inches toward the end of its commissioning period.

The little CAPSTONE spacecraft will have to wait a bit longer for its big lunar launch.

The eclipsed moon glows an eerie deep red color in a new photo of the total lunar eclipse that occurred earlier in May.

Ph.D. candidate Zhang Xiaojuan and Prof. Deng Linhua from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated the temporal variation of the hemispheric distribution of long-term sunspot activity during t...

Mars' planet-engulfing dust storms are a consequence of a huge energy imbalance on the Red Planet.

As NASA's exploration continues to push boundaries, a new solar sail concept selected by the agency for development toward a demonstration mission could carry science to new destinations.

Save over $20 on the epic space board game in an out-of-this-world deal just ahead of the Memorial Day celebrations.

Microsoft is working with partners to identify commercial space applications for the latest software tools the tech giant has developed. The post Azure Space offers Custom Vision tools for satellite imagery appeared firs...