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Capella Space has raised $60 million to allow the company to accelerate the deployment of its constellation and meet growing demand for its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery. The post Capella Space raises ...

An international team of scientists have successfully mapped the magnetic field of our galaxy, the Milky Way, using telescopes that observe the sky in the microwave range. The new research is published in Monthly Notices...

Technicians have opened the hatch of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft, which aced its epic moon mission late last year.

Using China's FAST radio telescope, a team of Chinese researchers observed previously-unmapped regions of the Milky Way and made some groundbreaking discoveries! The post Astronomers use the World's Biggest Radio Telesco...

NASA's newest tiny lunar probe is battling a thruster glitch on its way to the moon.

An Airbus satellite spotted SpaceX's huge Starship vehicle on the launch pad in South Texas being prepped for a landmark test flight.

If we ever detect an Extraterrestrial Civilization (ETC) and start communicating with them, the messages could take years, decades, or even centuries to travel back and forth. We face a challenging 49-minute long delay j...

NASA has selected Banner Quality Management Inc., of Friendswood, Texas, to provide safety and mission assurance, engineering, and technical services to the agency in various locations across the country.

A new theory for how rocky planets form could explain the origin of so-called "super-Earths"--a class of exoplanets a few times more massive than Earth that are the most abundant type of planet in the galaxy.

The important stuff, if mentioned at all, wasn't part of the build-up to the Artemis story about NASA finally returning to the moon after 50 years or so.

NSF has reached an agreement with SpaceX to mitigate the effects of the company's second-generation Starlink satellites on astronomy, even as another organization goes to court to block the constellation's deployment. Th...

The ODNI's report shows that the U.S. government appears to be taking UFOs and airspace safety issues seriously.

Researchers may be able to explain the origin of these enigmatic worlds and also that of other rocky planets and moons, including Earth and its siblings.

NASA selected 60 winning teams for the second TechRise Student Challenge, a nationwide contest designed to engage students in technology, science, and space exploration. These teams will work together to build science an...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of galaxies that could be among the earliest known galaxies in the universe.

The U.S. Space Force is holding discussions with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration about replacing a geostationary weather satellite over the Indian Ocean. The post U.S. Space Force considers a second N...

Snoopy has come home. The "world famous astronaut" splashed down on NASA's Artemis I Orion spacecraft in December, but it was not until a month later that the beagle was removed from the capsule.

You can save up to $280 as a range of Anycubic 3D printers are on offer to kickstart the new year.

Cybersecurity specialist SpiderOak raised $16.4 million in a Series C investment round led by Empyrean Technology Solutions, a space technology platform affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private ...

The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich's Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin and including...

Virgin Orbit said Thursday its first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the U.K. failed after its rocket's upper stage prematurely shut down.

Solar spicules are small-scale, beam-like, cold-plasma-ejected phenomena that constitute an important component of the chromosphere. Macrospicules are chromospheric spicules at a larger spatial scale.