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Jeff Riggs has retired as CEO of Spectrum AMT, a Colorado-based circuit board maker he co-founded 25 years ago with a growing business in the space industry. The post Electronics maker seeks more space growth after CEO r...

SpaceX launched the latest in its series of dedicated rideshare missions Aug. 16, putting more than 100 satellites for commercial and government customers into orbit. The post SpaceX launches Transporter-11 smallsat ride...

It was in 1939 that President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the first presidential proclamation designating Aug. 19 - Orville Wright's birthday - as a day in which citizens are encouraged to participate in activities that...

The NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) announced its selections for the institute's 2024 postdoctoral fellowship, a space health program intended to launch the careers of a new generati...

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as Abell 426, 320 million light-years from Earth. It's a barred spiral galaxy known as MCG+07-07-072, seen here amo...

Students from Topeka, Kansas, will have the opportunity Wednesday, Aug. 21, to have NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Tracy C. Dyson answer their prerecorded questions aboard the International Space Station. The 20-mi...

The company is transitioning from RF sensing cubesats to larger ESPA-class satellites The post SNC scaling up its fleet of radio-frequency monitoring satellites appeared first on SpaceNews.

SpaceX's latest launch, Transporter 11, aims to send a set of payloads into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. You can watch the event live.

NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are not idle while awaiting the decision on the conclusion of the first-ever astronaut mission aboard Boeing Starliner.

Orville Wright wasn't sure exactly how long his first flight lasted. He and his brother, Wilbur, think it was about 12 seconds, but according to what Orville wrote in his diary of that December day in 1903 at Kill Devil ...

Join OTPS and NASA's Agency Chief Economist at the Macroeconomics of Space Symposium on September 5, 2024

The contracts worth $424 million were awarded by the Space Development Agency for 20 satellites for relay and tactical communications The post Terran Orbital, York Space win U.S. military satellite contracts appeared fir...

A review of director Fede Alvarez's "Alien: Romulus"

Gen. Stephen Whiting challenged claims by the Mitchell Institute that the Army's space initiatives encroach on Space Force territory The post U.S. Space Command chief expresses support for Army’s space initiatives appe...

Angel City Brewery releasing cans of Aspen Beer as seen in the original 'Alien' film

There’s a link between Earth’s ocean salinity and its climate. Salinity can have a dramatic effect on the climate of any Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star. But what about exoplanets around M-dwarfs? Every pl...

Astronomers have pinned down a faraway black hole's snack schedule after watching it devour a star across years.

A Republican former NASA administrator is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, for president. The post Republican former NASA administrator endorses Harris for president appeared first on SpaceNews.

Located at the confluence of several dark matter filaments in the cosmic web, the Coma Cluster of galaxies is the perfect case study for understanding how these galactic conurbations grow.

Well-placed observers have a rare opportunity to see an interplanetary spacecraft early next week. The post See JUICE Next Week During Its Earth-Moon Flyby appeared first on Universe Today.

On Aug. 14, Jupiter and Mars appeared closer together than they've been in over two years. Here are some of the best photos of this rare event.

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as Abell 426, 320 million light-years from Earth. It's a barred spiral galaxy known as MCG+07-07-072, seen here amo...