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Over 80% of NASA's workforce is being told to stay home during the government shutdown.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a €50 million contract with aerospace company Thales Alenia Space to begin the preliminary design phase of the Security And cryptoGrAphic (SAGA) mission. This agreement enable...

ESA has signed a €40m contract with Avio to develop a reusable upper stage demonstrator, marking a step toward Europe's own Starship-like ambitions.

NASA has reported possible biosignatures in a Mars rock, but delays and funding woes cloud its sample return mission. Could China's Tianwen-3 step in and deliver samples from the site itself?

SYDNEY, Australia - The U.S. Space Force has awarded a $1.9 million contract to Southern California startups ExLabs for development of its reconfigurable spacecraft platform. Under the Direct-to-Phase 2 Small Business In...

SYDNEY, Australia - States have a responsibility to inform citizens, including commercial spacecraft operators, of cyber threats, Diane Howard, former commercial space policy director for the White House National Space C...

The planned demonstration would use radio-frequency communications terminals to establish satellite-to-satellite links between a Starlink payload and a mock space-based interceptor The post Starlink-compatible radios sou...

An agreement to study a private astronaut mission using an Orion spacecraft is a step by Lockheed Martin in efforts to offer the spacecraft as a service. The post Private mission study a step toward offering Orion as a s...

An unstable group of asteroids orbiting near Venus could threaten Earth - but not for a few thousand years

Scientists believe a moon of Uranus may have once had a subsurface ocean.

Germany will invest 35 billion euros ($41.1 billion) into defense space technologies within the next five years - an unprecedented amount for any European country. The decision, made in response to rising tensions with R...

The European Space Agency and the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) have announced they will work together on peaceful uses of space, starting with space weather monitoring and sharing space communications facilities...

There are plenty of exoplanets scattered throughout the galaxy, so it would stand to reason there are also plenty of stars that are in the process of forming new exoplanets. Tracking down stars that are in different stag...

Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS and R2 SWAN have highlighted this fact, when both were first discussed on message boards and verified via remote tele...

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Idaho as geomagnetic storm conditions are predicted to continue tonight.

Reanalyzing old data with our modern understanding seems to be in vogue lately. However, the implications of that reanalysis are more impactful for some topics than for others.

Two centuries after its completion, the Erie canal is celebrated from space, with NASA satellite imagery showing the engineering feat of this structure.

It rains on the sun, and thanks to researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), we finally know why. Unlike water that falls from the sky on Earth, solar rain happens in the sun's corona, a ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period-even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed-Earth's solar system and its planets looked more like a bin of well...

Does this flagship 44.3-megapixel photo and video hybrid camera have enough in its tank-like structure to satisfy astrophotographers?

See what the grim darkness of the future holds for the Warhammer 40,000 universe in the realm of video games.

Following its arrival in California a few weeks ago, the time has come for spacecraft engineers to ready the next sea-level monitoring satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-6B, for launch, which is slated for November.The first...