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With ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite due to launch in a few weeks, the satellite is now at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California being readied for its big day. Once in orbit, this new mission will show how short-t...

Israel's Gilat Satellite Networks announced plans June 17 to buy Stellar Blu Solutions, a Texas-based aircraft equipment integration specialist, in a deal worth up to $245 million to chase the emerging market for multi-o...

Maya FarrHenderson's first day at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston involved the usual new hire setup and training tasks, but also something special: A tour of the CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Ana...

Many years ago, there was a viral YouTube video called “History of the entire world, i guess,” which has been an endless source of internet memes since its release. One of the most prominent is also scientifically ac...

The vicinity of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, is hyperactive. Stars, gas, and dust zip around the black hole’s gravitational well at thousands of kilometers per hour....

Watchdog agency says DoD remains 'alarmingly slow in delivering new and innovative weapon system capabilities, even as national security threats continue to evolve' The post GAO raises red flags over supply chain issues ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken its first look at China's Chang'e 6 spacecraft on the moon's far side.

Meteoroids are difficult objects for aerospace and geophysics researchers like us to study, because we can't usually predict when and where they will hit the atmosphere. But on very rare occasions, we can study artificia...

NASA has awarded a contract to Vertex Aerospace, LLC of Madison, Mississippi, for labor support to ensure continuing safe operations of the Sonny Carter Training Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Ne...

Spanish small satellite propulsion developer Ienai Space has raised 3.9 million euros ($4.2 million) to start demonstrating electrospray thrusters in low Earth orbit around the end of this year. The post Spain's Ienai Sp...

Blue Origin, CACI International, General Atomics, and Viasat will design optical communications terminals for military spacecraft The post Space Force taps four firms for laser network project appeared first on SpaceNews...

The early Universe was a strange place. Early in its history--in the first quintillionth of a second--the entire cosmos was nothing more than a stunningly hot plasma. And, according to researchers at the Massachusetts In...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has been rerouted across a Red Planet dune field to reach the Marian territory known as "Bright Angel"

New research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold clues about the immense size and scale of our universe.

In the years before the JWST’s launch, astronomers’ efforts to understand the early Universe were stymied by a stubborn obstacle: the light from the early Universe was red-shifted to an extreme degree. The JWST was b...

The FAA is holding a virtual public meeting this evening (June 17) about the potential environmental impact of SpaceX's Starship operations in Florida, and you can participate.

Will future humans use warp drives to explore the cosmos? We're in no position to eliminate the possibility. But if our distant descendants ever do, it won't involve dilithium crystals, and Scottish accents will have eva...

Astronomers believe that at the heart of most, if not all, galaxies sits a titanic black hole with a mass that is millions or even billions of times that of our sun. These supermassive black holes cannot be directly crea...

A recent study has investigated teleparallel gravity and its potential to resolve tension surrounding the expansion of the universe in a way that general relativity can't.

Humanity is on the verge of entering a new era of space exploration, with the Artemis III mission planning to return humans to the moon in 2026, for the first time in 50 years. Not only will Artemis see a woman and a per...

Observing gravitational waves from neutron stars as they glitch could help us understand these exotic stellar remnants.

Boeing Starliner has seen its one-week test mission in space double to about two weeks. That allowed time for an incredible aurora show during thruster testing on June 15.