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COLORADO SPRINGS - After announcing a $5 million seed round in January, Indian startup TakeMe2Space seeks to raise $55 million to establish a 50-kilowatt orbital data center. What is key for us is to demonstrate that we ...

COLORADO SPRINGS - U.S. government agencies are working with industry to develop tools to disrupt missiles before they take flight, a timespan called left of launch. Were looking at different aspects of the threat as it ...

Astronomers using data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have discovered tens of thousands of gigantic hydrogen gas halos, called Lyman-alpha nebulae, surrounding galaxies 10 billion to 12 b...

Taiwans space agency chief has called on other countries to band together on a shared communications constellation to match the scale and growing strategic importance of networks like Starlink. The post Taiwan floats sha...

Companies proposing to develop commercial space stations are pushing back against claims by NASA that a market for such stations has yet to develop. The post Companies make the case for commercial space station markets a...

Artemis 2's groundbreaking space toilet doesn't deserve the bad press it's gotten over the past two weeks, according to mission commander Reid Wiseman.

University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand how fast-moving particles behave when they interact with electromagnetic waves in space. Understanding how thes...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now on its way out of our solar system, never to return. The comet was only the third-ever detected object to originate from outside our solar system. Traveling at high speeds, it looped ar...

The launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021 pushed the horizon of seeing the early universe, unveiling cosmic events just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Among the most striking dis...

One of the game's more bizarre features is the ability to stab your way up to the edge of space.

The new satellite platform is being positioned to compete in the emerging micro GEO market for space-based communications and sensing The post Boeing and its subsidiary Millennium Space team on new mid-size satellite app...

All Points Logistics has signed an agreement with NASAs Kennedy Space Center to construct satellite processing facilities on center property. The post All Points signs agreement to build payload processing facilities at ...

Blue Origin conducted a static fire test today (April 16) with a flight-proven New Glenn booster, paving the way for a planned launch on Sunday morning (April 19).

On a chilly yet beautifully clear evening last November, I sat on a video call with colleagues and happened to mention the live feed from the International Space Station-a real-time broadcast from onboard cameras as the ...

Fireballs and meteors could be seen anytime the constellation Lyra is above the horizon.

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics scientists have been able to disentangle the X-ray glow originating in our solar system from similar emission reaching us from deep space, using data from the SRG/eROSITA...

Engineers love a good practical challenge, especially when it comes to spaceflight. But theres one particular challenge facing the crewed missions of the near future that scares mission planners above almost all others -...

The Republic of Latvia will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, April 20, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Dace Melbrde, Latvias minister for ed...

BOULDER, Colorado - The suns volatile outbursts, such as storms, flares and other space weather, can cause serious harm to astronauts like the Artemis 2 crew who recently came home, and to satellites. Thats why the Space...

The star is escaping the Large Magellanic Cloud for the Milky Way.

Two new proposed NASA Earth science missions will attempt to address key research topics while leveraging both commercial and exploration capabilities. During NASAs Ignition event March 24, the agency announced two new E...

Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii Island are revealing new insight into the composition and origins of Uranus's two outer rings. Using data from the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA), comb...