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Companies in the Earth observation satellite industry are looking for climate-focused customers that could leverage data from space to generate value for their businesses and for the planet. The post Industry report call...

Sierra Space's latest deliberate explosion saw a futuristic space module prototype blow to pieces. The burst test is meant to assure safety for a space station that may fly in 2030.

In the spring of 2024, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to capture minuscule dust particles streaming into our solar system from interstellar space.

In 2010, an exceptionally luminous supernova exploded in a small galaxy about 150 million light-years away called UGC 5189A. The Hubble Space Telescope has kept its eye on this galaxy because of the extraordinary superno...

It will become increasingly challenging to protect national interests during treaty-level talks over how radio waves should be allocated for satellite connectivity, according to the ambassador who led U.S. efforts at the...

This gorgeous eight-hour exposure reveals the colors of stars as they make their way across the night sky, colors that can inform astronomers about the characteristics of each star.

Axiom Space will provide spacesuits for the first moon landing in half a century, aiming to reach the critical design review stage in June --as the greater Artemis program battles delays.

SpaceX is often in the headlines; unfortunately, it is not always good news. On 18 November we saw the second of the Starship and SuperHeavy booster get off the launchpad successfully; it failed before reaching orbit. In...

Satellite operators mostly held off attempts from terrestrial telcos to encroach on their radio waves at the 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23) in Dubai, but a battle between orbits continues after one of ...

NASA released on Tuesday the outcomes of its 2023 Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review, the agency's process to build a roadmap for exploration of the solar system for the benefit of humanity. The Moon to Mars archit...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Axiom Space's Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) is the third all-private astronaut ...

A review of director Gabriela Cowperthwaite's new indie sci-fi film, 'I.S.S.'

Whether he's advising student robotic competitions or managing production of a powerful, new Moon rocket stage, Erick Holsonback meets technical challenges with enthusiasm. Holsonback, a Jacobs Technology employee, is su...

The spiral galaxies UGC 05028 and UGC 05029, collectively known as Arp 300, are in the process of merging. This has fueled rapid star formation.

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on N79, a 1,630-light-year-wide star birthing complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, to produce a stunning image.

Booz Allen's venture capital arm chose remote-sensing startup Albedo as its first investment in a space company because of its potential to transform intelligence gathering. The post Booz Allen Ventures makes its first s...

Imagine remotely flying a drone or small aircraft from a great distance and loosing contact with it during flight. You'd likely assume the worst, that your aircraft was probably laying in a crashed heap in some remote lo...

Arp 300 consists of two interacting galaxies, UGC 05028 (the smaller face-on spiral galaxy) and UGC 05029 (the larger face-on spiral). Likely due to its gravitational dance with its larger partner, UGC 05028 has an asymm...

The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) is something special among telescopes. It's not built for better angular resolution and increased resolving power like the European Extremely Large Telescope or the Giant Magellan Telesco...

There's an incredibly ancient black hole out there that's challenging astronomers to explain how it could exist only 400 million years after the Big Bang. It's at the heart of a galaxy called GN-z11. Astronomers using JW...

Millions of dollars invested in NOAA's Fire Weather research efforts will support wildfire preparedness and response across the United States.

The Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) project is an ambitious plan to build a space telescope with four independent mirrors. The array would allow the individual mirrors to move closer or farther apart, similar ...