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One of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites suffered an anomaly in orbit on Wednesday (Dec. 17) that led to its partial breakup, according to the company.

The White House issued a sweeping executive order on space policy Dec. 18 covering topics from NASAs exploration plans to space security. The post Trump signs sweeping executive order to assert U.S. dominance in space ap...

A recently issued Executive Order revises how the government implements Space Policy Directive-3, removing the longstanding expectation that basic space situational awareness (SSA) services, including conjunction warning...

New constellation would provide security for NATOs eastern flank, German brigade in Lithuania The post Germany awards $1.9 billion SAR satellite deal to Rheinmetall-Iceye venture appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA Space Apps announced Thursday 10 winners of the 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge. During this two-day hackathon, participants gathered at 551 local events across 167 countries and territories to showcase their STEM sk...

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They're not part of a vast, Marvel-style universe, and neither is a classic. So why are the "Avatar" movies so successful?

Justin Hall, left, controls a subscale aircraft as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during preliminary engine tests on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at NASAs Armstong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Hall,...

"It's like looking back in time in a sense, to that violent period of our solar system when it was less than a billion years old."

The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from todays, with longer, thinner wings that provide a smoother ride while saving fuel. Those wings would be a revolutionary design for commercial aircraft,...

In 2024, astronomers discovered the brightest Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT) ever observed. LFBOTs are extremely bright flashes of blue light that shine for brief periods before fading away. New analysis of...

Video: 00:00:00 Watch the replay ofthe media information session in which ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun (CH) update journalists on key decisions taken at the ESA Council meetin...

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is travelling away from the sun on its way back to interstellar space.

Jared Isaacman was sworn inThursday as NASAs 15th administrator by District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. The oath was taken during a ceremony held at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. As NASA administrat...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big Bang - a cosmic Jekyll and Hyde that looks like any other galaxy when viewed in visible and even ...

Deal backed by $150 million Series E equity and debt round The post HawkEye 360 expands defense footprint with acquisition of Innovative Signal Analysis appeared first on SpaceNews.

In 2025, NASAs Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, marked a year of progress by supporting NASAs Artemis campaign, celebrating historic milestones, and continuing its role as a trusted propulsion test p...

Satellites would likely begin colliding with each other or space junk in less than three days if they were to lose the ability to maneuver, for example due to an intense solar storm.

NASA Science encourages all people to actively participate in science through activities and resources developed by a collaborative network of projectteams drawing on NASA SMD assets (science content, experts, data, etc....

Life has a way of bouncing back, even after catastrophic events like forest fires or volcanic eruptions. While nature's resilience to natural disasters has long been recognized, not much is known about how organisms ...

At a time when space is unmistakably a contested warfighting domain, the United States risks slowing its own progress not because of a lack of technology or talent, but because Congress has failed to act on renewing auth...

Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.