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A Chinese Long March 6A rocket broke apart shortly after launching 18 internet satellites on Aug. 7, creating a cloud of at least 300 pieces of trackable debris.

Virgin Galactic is making the case to the financial community that its new line of suborbital spaceplanes can boost the company towards profitability. The post Virgin Galactic outlines economics of its future spaceplanes...

NASA is wrestling over how and when to bring two astronauts back from the International Space Station, after repeatedly delaying their return aboard Boeing's troubled capsule.

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Viasat's shares rocketed 38% Aug. 8 after the geostationary fleet operator raised annual revenue expectations amid strong government and aviation broadband business growth. The post Viasat shares soar on government and a...

Engineers on NASA's NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission commanded the spacecraft to turn its transmitter off for the last time Thursday. This concludes more than 10 years of its planet...

LOS ANGELES, California -- As the 38th annual Small Satellite conference began this week in Logan, Utah, conference chair Pat Patterson announced Aug. 5 that the conference would, starting next […] The post Logan, Utah...

As part of its commitment to a robust, sustainable lunar exploration program for the benefit of all, NASA issued a Request for Information Friday to seek interest from American companies and institutions in conducting a ...

20th Century Studios is primed and ready to unleash fresh alien terror in theaters Aug. 16 with the release of the highly-awaited sequel "Alien: Romulus."

An exclusive clip for Hulu's "Solar Opposites" Season 5, which returns with 12 new episodes on Aug. 12, 2024.

NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft turned off its transmitter for good on Aug. 8, wrapping up its prolific asteroid-hunting career.

Virgin Galactic posted a video on Wednesday (Aug. 7) showcasing an animation of its new Delta class space plane, which is expected to enter service in 2026.

Some grains are older than our solar system.

Active sunspot AR3777 fired off the strongest of its three solar flares this week, sending another CME to impact Earth this weekend with a possible geomagnetic storm.

Eutelsat plans to carve out ground segment infrastructure worth about 790 million euros ($863 million) and then sell most of the teleport service business to a private equity fund, the French fleet operator announced Aug...

Here's what it's like to experience Kyrgyzstan's clear pristine skies, a stargazer's paradise.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for limited interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September. The virtual interview...

Teachers at Smokey Mountain Elementary School have collaborated with the NASA Science Activation (SciAct) program's Smoky Mountains STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Collaborative (SMSC) and projec...

By Jessica Barnett  From Earth, one might be tempted to view the Sun as a unique celestial object like no other, as it's the star our home planet orbits and the one our planet relies on most for heat and light. But if y...

With the E-Day prequel confirmed to be on the way, now is the perfect time to take a look at the Gears of War games in order.

Recently, teams with NASA's Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center met with engineering teams at a central Florida amusement park to share knowledge on a new braking system NASA is ...

Starting today, the Earth will be passing through a meteor shower. But in astronomy, the human eye is very much a limited tool. But increasingly powerful instruments are allowing us to peer ever deeper into the cosmos an...