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The European Space Agency has announced it is establishing a new presence in Tokyo, Japan, its first in Asia.

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink satellites today (Oct. 27), sending 28 of them up from California's central coast.

Preparations for NASAs Artemis 2 launch could soon grind to a halt if the nearly month-long government shutdown continues, one industry executive warned. The post Shutdown could soon slow preparations for Artemis 2 appea...

The mission had previously targeted a launch at the end of 2025.

The FCC voted Oct. 28 to propose creating a modular licensing assembly line that would overhaul its satellite application process to accelerate reviews and cut red tape. The post FCC proposes licensing assembly line to a...

A haunting grin appeared on the sun as bright active regions and dark coronal holes combined to create a jack-o'-lantern face just in time for Halloween.

NASA's X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet took off on its first-ever flight on Oct. 28, flying from Palmdale, California to its new home at Edwards Air Force Base.

LOS GATOS, CA-Cambrian Works is pleased to announce their partnership with Aptos Orbital to revolutionize space to space connections. This collaboration marks an advancement in the capabilities of Cambrian Works [] The p...

A team of scientists has released a new survey mapping massive galaxy clusters, some of the largest structures in the universe, to test whether our fundamental understanding of the laws of the universe need revision. The...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hem...

Siddharth Patel has been watching the sky since the age of five. Fresh off two possible asteroid discoveries, he's taking a big step toward his astronaut dream.

Everyones favorite interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS isnt really hiding near perihelion this week, as amateur astronomers reveal. Dont believe the breathless ballyhoo that youre currently reading around the web about interstel...

An innovative technique for measuring the force acting on individual grains of sand could help scientists uncover how winds have shaped the surface of Mars.

Gravitational wave detectors on Earth have heard the "cry" of two newborn black holes with some unusual and remarkable properties.

The role of space for security was presented at a high-level event in Brussels on Tuesday.

Slingshot Aerospace is in talks with other countries to create or expand space-tracking capabilities after selling optical sensors to the U.K., marking the California-based companys first deal for the hardware behind its...

Fragments of CI chondrite meteorites, which are space rocks that are typically rich in water, have turned up in the sample collected from the moon's South Pole-Aitken basin by China's Chang'e 6 mission.

Hurricane Melissa could make a record-breaking landfall in Jamaica, and satellites are monitoring the situation.

Image: The Red Spider Nebula (Webb)

This quiz dives into the historic and scientific journey behind the search for life in the universe-testing your knowledge of the thinkers, missions, and discoveries that shaped our cosmic curiosity.

This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537-the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), Webb has revealed never-before-seen de...

The 4MOST instrument on the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope has captured its first light.