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Two K2 satellites will host optical terminals intended to connect military systems in orbit The post Space Force awards K2 Space $22.9 million for orbital laser communications demonstration appeared first on SpaceNews.

Two K2 satellites will host optical terminals intended to connect military systems in orbit The post Space Force awards K2 Space $22.9 million for laser communications demonstration appeared first on SpaceNews.

Is Mattel's 'Man in Space' getting a deserved live-action film in the near future?

The dinosaurs may not have starved through a years-long winter. New evidence suggests a blanket of ultrafine impact dust set the planet on fire within hours.

On Aug. 1, 1968, NASA canceled the production of its Saturn V moon rocket, one year before the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, spelling the end of the Apollo program due to budget concerns.

HELSINKI - China sent a new pair of secretive satellites into a programmatically new orbit Wednesday, while also upgrading its on-orbit communications relay capabilities. A Long March 6A rocket lifted [] The post China l...

40 years later, 'Flight of the Navigator' remains an ambitious cult classic that refuses to speak down to its target audience.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 24 more of the company's Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast late on Friday night (July 31).

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 24 more of the company's Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast late on Friday night (July 31).

Our sun constantly releases a stream of high-speed charged particles, known as the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a strong global magnetic field to shield its atmosphere from this flow. As a result, the sol...

The planet Neptune has 16 known moons, with its largest Moon, Triton, comprising more than 99.5 percent of the mass of all of them. Tritons incredible size has led scientists to hypothesize it was a captured object origi...

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 1 - Buck Todays APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photogra...

Plutos moon, Charon, is one of the most unexplored (and arguably underappreciated) planetary objects in the entire solar system. This is primarily because its only been visited once by NASAs New Horizons spacecraft durin...