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Heads of the world's major space agencies presented their big plans for the coming years at a major congress in Paris, while underlining the serious challenges that could affect space and humanity.

The failure of a Blue Origin rocket during an uncrewed launch this month has members of Congress urging for more transparency of an FAA investigation into the accident.

You have to look for the clues that the protoplanet exists, not for the protoplanet itself.

NGA's Dave Gauthier said Sept. 15 the agency has a growing appetite for new types of analytics services offered by the private sector The post Satellite imaging companies look for growth in data analytics appeared first ...

The U.S. Space Operations Command is assigning cybersecurity and intelligence specialists to work side-by-side with satellite operators so they're better prepared to protect U.S. systems from electronic and physical thre...

SpaceX fired seven engines on its Starship Super Heavy prototype "Booster 7" on Monday (Sept. 19), marking the highest number of Raptor engines ever tested simultaneously.

The solar system's most massive planet, Jupiter, will make its closest approach to Earth for 59 years on Sept. 26 even as the gas giant will be directly opposite the sun as viewed from Earth.

A fueling test of NASA's new megarocket on Sept. 21 could make or break the agency's hopes of launching the Artemis 1 moon mission on Sept. 27.

Using data from the Gaia Observatory, a team of astronomers has detected a Sun-like star that co-orbits with a dormant black hole. The post Astronomers Find a Sun-like Star Orbiting a Nearby Black Hole appeared first on ...

It's been known for decades that though astronauts' immune systems become suppressed in space, leaving them vulnerable to disease, the exact mechanisms of immune dysfunction have remained a mystery. Now a Cornell undergr...

The search for extraterrestrial life has just become more interesting as a team of scientists, including Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Christopher Glein, has discovered new evidence for a key building block for life...

Earth-imaging satellites have spied the massive crowds that gathered in London for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

La NASA ofrecerá cobertura en directo el miércoles 21 de septiembre de los principales acontecimientos del lanzamiento y acoplamiento de una misión con un astronauta de la NASA y dos cosmonautas a la Estación Espacia...

The James Webb Space Telescope excels at capturing images of distant cosmic objects, but the telescope's new Mars images demonstrate it can have an impact much closer to home.

Lynk Global secured regulatory approval Sept. 16 to operate its initial cellphone-compatible constellation globally, although the startup needs to deploy more satellites and get landing rights before it can start service...

Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who logged the single longest stay in space, has died at the age of 80. Polyakov launched on two missions to the space station Mir. In total, he was off Earth for 678 days.

The United Arab Emirates will fly its Rashid 2 rover on China's 2026 Chang'e-7 lunar landing mission following an agreement between the two countries. The post UAE rover to fly on China's Chang'e-7 lunar south pole missi...

Astrobotic unveiled plans Sept. 19 to develop a commercial power service for the moon that the company argues is essential for creating long-term infrastructure on the lunar surface. The post Astrobotic announces plans f...

NASA's InSight Mars lander has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021.

The SETI Institute and its partner Unistellar are launching a new exoplanet detection program that will engage citizen scientists worldwide. Amateur astronomers, using either Unistellar's eVscope or another telescope, wi...

A glittering multitude of stars in the globular cluster Terzan 4 fills this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Globular clusters are collections of stars bound together by their mutual gravitational attracti...

Researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators reproduced the observed transmission spectra of the exoplanet WASP-52b at different wavelength bands and studied the pr...