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Intelsat has ordered one of three fuel pods Northrop Grumman's in-orbit servicing subsidiary is launching in late 2024 to extend the life of one of its geostationary satellites by at least six years, the operator announc...

As Japanese company ispace prepares to land on the moon for the first time, its stock is taking off on a Japanese exchange. The post First ispace mission ready for lunar landing as company stock starts trading appeared f...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has observed a galaxy in the early universe that could be the progenitor of galaxies such as our own Milky Way.

The chief executive of European small launch vehicle developer Orbex stepped down April 14 so that company can go to the "next level" ahead of its first launch. The post Orbex CEO resigns appeared first on SpaceNews.

Contrary to a popular theory that icy comets or asteroids delivered water to a dry newborn Earth, the planet itself may have produced its earliest water supply, a new study suggests.

NASA leadership and other experts will participate in the Space Foundation's 38th Annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the agency will air two NASA events.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted galaxies further away in the universe than any other instrument before. How can we be sure these early galaxies aren't closer and more recent?

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched its flagship Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission on Friday (April 14), producing some stunning images in the process.

The Defense Department has agreed to provide Aerojet Rocketdyne $215.6 million to expand its rocket propulsion manufacturing faciltiies in order to speed up production of missiles for Ukraine, the Pentagon announced Apri...

A team of Japanese astronomers has found a connection between the dustiness of Red Giant stars and changes in their brightness, which could provide clues about the origins of life. The post Twinkling Stars Supply the Dus...

A new NASA study offers an explanation of how quakes could be the source of the mysteriously smooth terrain on moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope looked at the same distant patch of sky that Hubble did, revealing yet more detail in the famous Ultra Deep Field.

SpaceX performed a static fire test with its Falcon Heavy rocket on Thursday (April 13), gearing up for a planned launch on April 18.

It is not only in the tunnels of CERN that we learn about the origin and composition of the universe. Look up, and space offers the most beautiful phenomena to study: black holes, dark matter, cosmic rays, etc. Studying ...

An Ariane 5 successfully launched a European spacecraft on an eight-year journey to Jupiter April 14 on the penultimate flight of the venerable rocket. The post Ariane 5 launches ESA's JUICE mission to Jupiter appeared f...

Primordial holes formed in the exotic conditions of the big bang may have become their own source of matter and radiation.

With only one or two very minor variations, this third season has become a formulaic, cookie-cutter copy of the previous two

The history-making rotorcraft has recently been negotiating some of the most hazardous terrain it's encountered on the Red Planet.

A new air filtration system with a magnetic-bearing blower has been installed on the International Space Station. The carbon dioxide scrubber could advance life support for astronauts on the moon.

This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows JO204, a 'jellyfish galaxy' so named for the bright tendrils of gas that appear in this image as drifting lazily below JO204's bright central bulk.

Some of the asteroids NASA's Lucy mission will visit are still more than 330 million miles (530 million kilometers) away from the spacecraft, which is more than three times the average distance between Earth and the sun....

A bizarre 'ultraluminous X-ray source' shines millions of times brighter than the sun, breaking a physical law called the Eddington limit, a new study finds.