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Germany startup Okapi: Orbits raised 5.5 million euros ($5.7 million) in a seed funding round led by Munich Re Ventures with participation from Dolby Family Ventures, Herius Capital and APEX Ventures. The post Okapi:Orbi...

The launch of SpaceX's next cargo mission to the Internationl Space Station has been pushed back at least two more weeks, to no earlier than July 11.

SpaceX and OneWeb said June 13 they have reached a spectrum coordination plan that would enable their current and second-generation broadband megaconstellations to coexist. The post Starlink and OneWeb reach spectrum coo...

Contec said June 10 that it had raised 61 billion won ($47.3 million) in a Series C funding round to pursue its goal of building a global ground station network and operating its own Earth observation satellites. The pos...

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)-- an international observatory co-operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)--have observed a s...

Astronomers are buzzing after observing the fastest nova ever recorded. The unusual event drew scientists' attention to an even more unusual star. As they study it, they may find answers to not only the nova's many baffl...

Bethesda Game Studios has released the first gameplay video of its sci-fi magnum opus "Starfield."

Iran appeared to be readying for a space launch Tuesday as satellite images showed a rocket on a rural desert launch pad, just as tensions remain high over Tehran's nuclear program.

If this episode represents a slight drop before the end of season build-up begins, then we're fine with that.

Episode 2 of "The Orville" season 3 includes nods to "The Fly" and other sci-fi horror classics, with an epic music score.

Paramount Plus delivers a new trailer for "Beavis And Butt-head Do The Universe" which launches on June 23.

Chinese scientists have created the most detailed map of the Moon yet. It took them 10 years and involved hundreds of researchers. The new map will be a boon to lunar exploration and for anyone who just wants to study ou...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study wispy streams of stars that extend far beyond the apparent edges of many galaxies. Missions like the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes would have to patch together...

A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is brimming with distant galaxies in an assortment of shapes. Some are seen face-on and appear oval or as disks or spirals, while others are seen edge-on and look more like ...

Belgian startup Aerospacelab announced plans June 14 to establish a new satellite "megafactory" large enough to produce 500 satellites annually. The post Aerospacelab to build “megafactory” in Belgium appeared first ...

A new high-resolution map of the moon captures lunar geologic features in incredible detail.

Sierra Space is creating an astronaut training program led by a company executive and former NASA astronaut as another step in developing a crewed version of its Dream Chaser vehicle and a commercial space station. The p...

An explosion hit rocket facilities at China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in October 2021, commercial satellite imagery shows. The post Explosion at Chinese space launch center revealed by satellite imagery appeared ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have imaged the debris disk of the nearby star HD 53143 at millimeter wavelengths for the first time, and it looks nothing like they expected. Ba...

Samples from the Moon's Oceanus Procellarum, an ancient mare basalt whose name translates to "Ocean of Storms," may be able to help determine the source of lunar water.

On Sunday (June 12), the car-sized Perseverance Mars rover snapped a photo that could be mistaken for a still from an "Indiana Jones" movie.

NASA's Lucy mission team is continuing efforts to correct the incomplete deployment of one of the spacecraft's solar arrays as it continues to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.