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A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled to begin its journey back to Earth today (June 16), and you can watch the action live.

The startup uses probabilistic reasoning to diagnose spacecraft anomalies The post PiLogic partners with Air Force lab to test satellite fault-prediction software appeared first on SpaceNews.

If United States policymakers deride the wider United Nations, they still spend on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) because it amplifies the commercial reach of U.S. standards. This includes U.S. [] The po...

One well-done gas giant, coming right up! Thats the latest from researchers analyzing NASAs James Webb Space Telescopes observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical...

"We could already see changes in the jet, but never with this level of detail in X-rays."

Astrobotic showed off the lunar lander it plans to launch later this year that will be the vanguard of NASAs new lunar base ambitions. The post Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander appeared first on SpaceNews.

Description NASA astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to the agencys Cold Atom Lab, or CAL, aboard the International Space Station on May 8, 2026. About the size of a minifridg...

NASA's "rapid-response" space telescope is slowly falling out of orbit, but a daring mission this summer could allow the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to continue scanning the sky for many more years to come...

An Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket will launch a record-breaking load to orbit early on Wednesday morning (June 17), and you can watch the action live.

Researchers have confirmed a new class of objects within our Milky Way galaxy: survivors called 'bulge fossil fragments.' Terzan 5 is the prototype of these remnants of our galaxy's early formation. Using the...

How can the Sun keep shining with its furnace switched off? Two nineteenth-century aristocrats, Helmholtz and Lord Kelvin, worked out the answer mostly by accident. It comes down to stored heat, gravitational shrinking, ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA's newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fundamental workings of matter and devel...

MILAN - Switzerlands decision not to participate in the European Unions Copernicus Earth observation program during the 2028-2034 funding cycle has revived a broader debate over the value of contributing [] The post Swis...

Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky?

Researchers using two of humanitys most powerful observatories - NASAs James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes - have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster as it was once classified, offering new...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASAs newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fundamental workings of matter and develop ne...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has found a third galaxy devoid of dark matter-located alongside the other two in a formation that has never been seen before. Astronomers have followed a faint, cosmic trail of gas to a th...

Our expert was impressed with the looks and performance of this mirrorless APS-C Nikon. This excellent all-round performer is now at its best price this year

When someone asks me what originally got me interested in space exploration, my answer is always the same - the Hubble Deep Field. That image, taken in 1995, came out when I was in middle school, and had an everlasting i...

Our ongoing list of current private space companies with a valuation of $1 billion or more. The post The SpaceNews space unicorn tracker appeared first on SpaceNews.

The fireball traveled 300 miles in a matter of seconds before disintegrating in spectacular fashion.

We think of atomic clocks as the definitive timekeepers. They are famous for being accurate down to the picosecond. Unfortunately, they are still subject to general relativity, so if you put them on a different planet, t...