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The satellite industry's largest and most established operators are bracing for major disruption as consolidation and new entrants shake up the state of play. The post Satellite operators weigh strategies for an industry...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted a phenomenon scientists had lost hope of ever seeing on Mars.

Video: 00:19:25 On 15 September 2022, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti conducted an in-flight call with the European Parliament from the International Space Station. In conversation with President Metsola and ESA Dir...

Solar Orbiter's measurements of the environment around Venus might help explain how the scorched planet's atmosphere changes over millions of years.

A new study has examined all the rocky planets around red dwarf stars and determined that "water worlds" are as common as "Earth-like" rocky planets. The post There Could be as Many Water Worlds as Earths in the Milky Wa...

SpaceX touts the ability of its Starlink satellite constellation to beam internet service to remote areas around the world, and it doesn't get much more remote than this.

Scientists with NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover said today that the rover has collected several “tantalizing” organic rock samples from an ancient river delta on the Red Planet. These samples have now been stowed fo...

New research by an international team of scientists has revealed new insight into how rare, dusty galaxies evolved during the early Universe. The post A Galaxy With Ten Times the Mass of the Milky Way is Preparing to Bec...

The Sept. 28 SpaceX launch on behalf of the Space Development Agency slipped due to supply chain problems, with bid issues and software development also contributing.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected four samples from an ancient Red Planet river delta in the past few months, and all point toward a formerly habitable environment.

A 'disconnection event' in the bright Comet Leonard caught the eyes of judges at Royal Observatory Greenwich.

Saturn's rings might have formed 100 million years ago when one of its icy moons was ripped apart by the planet's gravity.

Astronomers have long believed that supernovae and stellar winds drive outflows from galaxies known as superwinds. New research suggests that they may instead be due to a ring of nuclear fire. Every galaxy is constantly ...

Swirling around the planet's equator, the rings of Saturn are a dead giveaway that the planet is spinning at a tilt. The belted giant rotates at a 26.7-degree angle relative to the plane in which it orbits the sun. Astro...

Disney releases the final trailer for its upcoming "Rogue One" prequel spinoff, "Andor."

Disney Plus releases first trailer for their new animated anthology "Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi," delivering peeks at the origin stories for fan favorite characters.

Sci-fi owes a lot to classic Star Trek, but some of it aged quite poorly, and the new shows only served to highlight that to us.

Astronomers may be interpreting James Webb Space Telescope's measurements of exoplanet atmospheres wrong, a new study suggests.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is revealing the universe with spectacular, unprecedented clarity. The observatory's ultrasharp infrared vision has cut through the cosmic dust to illuminate some of the earliest structu...

A fireball broke up between northern Ireland and Scotland on Wednesday (Sept. 14) at 9:57 p.m. local time, glittering green in the view of populations around the United Kingdom.

NASA's Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to be a top prospect for finding signs of ancient microbial life...

A spinoff from the space shuttle program is offering people in menopause with relief from hot flashes, NASA says.