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Orbit Fab, a startup developing infrastructure for in-space refueling of satellites, announced Oct. 25 it lined up a new investor to support those plans. The post Orbit Fab secures new investor to support satellite refue...

A powerful eye in the sky is helping scientists spy "super-emitters" of methane, a greenhouse gas about 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Gen. David "DT" Thompson, U.S. vice chief of space operations, said the Space Force is likely to see continued funding increases to counter China's rapid advances in its space program. The post Space Force to seek budget...

When we look at images of star birth regions, they look both placid and active at the same time. That’s nowhere more true than in a stellar nursery associated with a so-called “Herbig-Haro” object. A recent image f...

NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission is mapping the prevalence of key minerals in the planet's dust-producing deserts--information that will advance our understanding of airborne dust's e...

NASA engineers are developing and testing a shielding system to protect the Mars Sample Return mission from micormeterites and space debris, The post Samples Returned From Mars Will be Protected by a Micrometeorite Shiel...

NanoAvionics expects to be able to churn out several hundred satellites annually in two years following a multimillion-dollar investment plan from its new Norwegian owners. The post Newly acquired NanoAvionics plots majo...

The Fermi Paradox won’t go away. It’s one of our most compelling thought experiments, and generations of scientists keep wrestling with it. The paradox pits high estimates for the number of civilizations in the galax...

The partial solar eclipse today (Oct. 25) generated some haunting space footage of the shadow of our moon passing over our Earth, as seen from satellites.

Marvel Studios released a new full trailer for "Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania."

A 5-year microbial study of the International Space Station (ISS) and its astronauts by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and NASA researchers has found that the ISS habitat is safe for its residents.

"Doctor Who" teases David Tennant's return for 2023's special 60th anniversary episodes.

As part of NASA's Artemis program to establish a long-term presence on the moon, it aims to build an Artemis base camp that includes a modern lunar cabin, rover and mobile home. This fixed habitat could potentially be co...

While tracking more and more objects orbiting Earth is crucial to ensure a safe operating environment, so is the ability to identify them correctly. Space-Track, provided by the U.S. Space Force's 18th Space Squadron, of...

The James Webb Space Telescope photographed a collision of two galaxies that's sparking a flurry of star formation invisible to other telescopes.

Silicon Valley startup Array Labs raised $5 million in a pre-seed funding round backed by Seraphim Space and Agya Ventures, a real estate technology fund. The post Array Labs raises $5 million for 3D-imagery constellatio...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft captured an image of the Earth on Oct 15, 2022, and an image of the Earth and the Moon on Oct. 13 as a part of an instrument calibration sequence.

A cargo ship attached to the International Space Station fired its thrusters for five minutes Monday night (Oct. 24) to dodge a fragment of the destroyed Russian satellite Cosmos 1408.

With peer and near-peer adversaries accelerating their warfighting capabilities and becoming more aggressive, we need to reevaluate and rethink how to bring the capabilities of the intelligence community and the Pentagon...

They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but the image fronting "Apollo Remastered" by Andy Saunders speaks volumes for what is inside.

Our pick of the best camera accessories, from tripods to camera bags, star-trackers to intervalometers and more.

Media accreditation is open for SpaceX's 26th commercial resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket is targeted no earlier than Friday...