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SES Space & Defense announced June 28 it won a five-year contract worth up to $134 million to provide X-band satellite communications services to DoD. The post SES wins $134 million DoD contract for X-band satellite comm...

The Spaceport Company, a startup developing floating launch pads for space rockets, is one of 17 companies selected to receive government funding this year under the National Security Innovation Capital program. The post...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured some incredible raw images of Saturn for the first time, but you might have to wait a bit longer to see them in their full glory.

In exoplanetology, the ring around the star is often called the “Goldilocks zone,” in reference to the 19th-century fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In that story, Goldilocks encounters sets of three object...

Virgin Galactic is ready to launch the first commercial mission of its SpaceShipTwo space plane on Thursday (June 29). Success would be huge for the ambitious company.

Germany's OroraTech has ordered eight more thermal imaging satellites from Spire Global to expand its wildfire-monitoring constellation next year. The post OroraTech orders eight more wildfire-monitoring satellites appea...

A stellar nursery sounds like a placid place where baby stars go about their business undisturbed. But, of course, a stellar nursery is nothing like that. (Babies are noisy and cry a lot.) They’re dynamic places where ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has seen the starlight from an early galaxy hosting a feeding supermassive black hole for the first time ever.

The 1.2-m diameter main mirror of ESA's Euclid mission to unveil the dark universe, seen during assembly, integration and testing. Using this mirror, the spacecraft will map the 3D distribution of billions of galaxies up...

While the European Space Agency isn't planning to build their own spacesuits anytime soon, they want to be ready. ESA recently had the Space Suit Design Competition, allowing the public to propose designs for future Euro...

Reusable launch vehicles have been a boon for the commercial space industry. By recovering and refurbishing the first stages of rockets, launch providers have dramatically reduced the cost of sending payloads and even cr...

The European Space Agency's (Esa) Euclid mission will launch into space on a Falcon9 rocket from SpaceX on July 1, or soon after. Many of us who have worked on it will be in Florida to watch the nail-biting event.

Above: Orbital is developing technology to provide energy for on-orbit servicing, assembly and manufacturing with the support of two recent Small Business Innovation Research awards. The post Above: Orbital develops ener...

Virgin Galactic's first commercial spaceflight, a four-passenger mission, is scheduled to launch on Thursday (June 29). How many people can the company's SpaceShipTwo really carry?

In 5 billion years, the sun will become a red giant and swallow Earth and nearby planets. New research suggests that some close-in planets can avoid being swallowed by stars during these death throes.

NASA invites media to the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground about 80 miles southwest of Salt Lake City on Thursday, July 20, before the agency's first asteroid sample collected in space is returned to Earth.

The ESA's Euclid and NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will work together to resolve the mystery of cosmic expansion! The post Two New Space Telescopes Will Bring Dark Energy Into Focus appeared first on Universe ...

SpaceX and Elon Musk have released mind-blowing photos from the recent test-firing of the company's latest Starship prototype.

When our sun reaches the end of its life, it will expand to 100 times its current size, enveloping the Earth. Many planets in other solar systems face a similar doom as their host stars grow old. But not all hope is lost...

Days before she became the first American woman in space, Sally Ride joined President Ronald Reagan on the White House North Lawn. Forty years later, the two "meet" again on a different courtyard.

One of five diorama sets, the Lego Star Wars Endor Speeder Chase is one of our favorite display pieces.

Scientists have debated hotly to what extent mammals and dinosaurs walked the same earth. A new study claims they overlapped in a big way.