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Astronomers have discovered the heavy element barium in the atmospheres of two blisteringly hot gas giant planets outside the solar system.

NASA's Artemis 1 mission and a Japanese lander are set to launch to the moon from Florida within days of each other in November. The post Artemis 1, ispace lander set November launch dates appeared first on SpaceNews.

China launched a 5-meter-resolution synthetic aperture radar satellite late Wednesday, continuing a period of intense Chinese launch activity. The post China launches radar satellite for environmental monitoring appeared...

SpaceNews spoke with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's new director to learn more about the JPL's future vision. The post Finding balance within the space ecosystem: Q&A with JPL Director Laurie Leshin appeared first on Sp...

Eutelsat would nearly double annual sales in five years to around $2 billion if its OneWeb merger gets approved, the satellite operators said Oct. 12 as they disclosed financials underpinning their multi-orbit deal. The ...

The Celestron Travel Scope 70DX offers high-quality optics at an entry-level price point of just $89 during Prime Day Early Access.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - While Astra Space is taking the delisting warning the company received from NASDAQ seriously, the company has "lots of different strategies" to address it, Astra CEO Chris Kemp said at the Satelli...

Media accreditation is now open for the upcoming launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a pathfinder mission about Earth's water that will use new technology to address climate change and its ...

Puerto Rico's iconic radio telescope, which collapsed in 2020, won't be rebuilt, although the site will see a new education center open next year.

Astronomers around the world are captivated by an unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation that swept over Earth on Sunday, Oct. 9. The emission came from a gamma-ray burst (GRB)--the most powerfu...

China launched an environmental satellite into space Wednesday (Oct. 13) amid a surge of rocket activity.

Starlink is deepening its foothold in Japan as SpaceX's satellite broadband service looks to expand elsewhere in Asia, which will be critical for generating much-needed revenues. The post Starlink kicks off Asia expansio...

As SpaceX's Starlink continues to gain military customers, the Pentagon worries that the company's use of proprietary technology will make it difficult to integrate into a hybrid architecture that DoD hopes to build The ...

NASA has selected TBP & JJ Worldwide Services of Leesburg, Virginia, to provide facilities operations and maintenance service for the agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.

NASA's iconic new observatory has spotted surprising compounds around supermassive black holes.

Propulsion startup Phase Four is expanding its Maxwell plasma propulsion line by offering Max-V, an iodine-fueled engine. The post Phase Four adopts iodine for next-gen Max-V engine appeared first on SpaceNews.

The National Science Foundation announced Thursday that it will not rebuild a renowned radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which was one of the world's largest until it collapsed nearly two years ago.

A suborbital rocket from Skyrora failed to reach space on Saturday (Oct. 8), but the company said the test launch was a milestone effort nonetheless.

The European Mars Express spacecraft took a stunning sequence of images capturing the Martian moon Deimos with Jupiter and its four main moons.

The Hubble Space Telescope observed the aftermath of astronomers' first-ever neutron star collision and measured how fast the jet produced traveled.

A new dawn of space exploration is upon us. NASA aims to land the first woman and person of color on the moon by the end of 2025, and send a crew on a year-and-a-half long mission to Mars in the 2030s.

One of SpaceX's recent Falcon 9 missions delivered a treat for skywatchers when the launch created a jaw-dropping "jellyfish" in the sky.