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Astronomers Find a “Thermometer Molecule” that Only Appears When a Planet is Between 1,200 and 2,000 Kelvin By Laurence Tognetti A recent...Read More

Pentagon Unveils New Website for Reporting (and Learning About) UFOs

Pentagon Unveils New Website for Reporting (and Learning About) UFOs By Alan Boyle The Pentagon has opened up a new portal on the interne...Read More

Lawsuit claims Amazon’s board erred in awarding Kuiper launch contracts to Blue Origin and others

Lawsuit claims Amazon’s board erred in awarding Kuiper launch contracts to Blue Origin and others By Jeff Foust A pension fund has file...Read More

QinetiQ wins $224 million contract to provide technical services to Space Development Agency

QinetiQ wins $224 million contract to provide technical services to Space Development Agency By Sandra Erwin QinetiQ US, a defense cont...Read More

SatixFy sells satellite payload subsidiary to MDA

SatixFy sells satellite payload subsidiary to MDA By Jason Rainbow Israeli satcoms equipment maker SatixFy announced plans Aug. 31 to s...Read More

NASA gears up for return of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample

NASA gears up for return of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample By Jeff Foust NASA is making the final preparations to recover samples from an a...Read More

Chinese study finds GSSAP close approaches a threat to its GEO assets

Chinese study finds GSSAP close approaches a threat to its GEO assets By Andrew Jones Chinese researchers have noted close approaches b...Read More

There’s No Wind on the Moon, So How Does Dust Shift and Swirl So Quickly?

There’s No Wind on the Moon, So How Does Dust Shift and Swirl So Quickly? By Carolyn Collins Petersen The last place to look for windstor...Read More

Spiral Blue offers to run Your Code in Space

Spiral Blue offers to run Your Code in Space By Debra Werner Australian startup Spiral Blue is inviting developers and researchers to r...Read More

A Satellite Deployed a Drag Sail and Removed Itself from Orbit Five Years Early

A Satellite Deployed a Drag Sail and Removed Itself from Orbit Five Years Early By Carolyn Collins Petersen In an age of increasing “stuf...Read More

ESA postpones Ariane 6 hot-fire test again

ESA postpones Ariane 6 hot-fire test again By Jeff Foust The European Space Agency says a test-firing of an Ariane 6 core stage has bee...Read More

Exploring Io’s Volcanic Activity via Hubble and Webb Telescopes

Exploring Io’s Volcanic Activity via Hubble and Webb Telescopes By Laurence Tognetti The two most powerful space telescopes ever built, N...Read More

NASA Deep Space Network reaches “critical point” as demand grows

NASA Deep Space Network reaches “critical point” as demand grows By Jeff Foust Increasing demand but decreasing budgets are putting a s...Read More

SAIC wins $574 million contract to maintain Space Force radar sites

SAIC wins $574 million contract to maintain Space Force radar sites By Sandra Erwin The U.S. Space Force awarded SAIC a $574.5 million ...Read More

Is the Solar Wind Coming From These Tiny Jets on the Sun?

Is the Solar Wind Coming From These Tiny Jets on the Sun? By Carolyn Collins Petersen Ever since the first direct observations of the sol...Read More

JWST Plucks One Single Star out of a Galaxy Seen 12.5 Billion Years Ago

JWST Plucks One Single Star out of a Galaxy Seen 12.5 Billion Years Ago By Matt Williams After years of build-up and anticipation, the Ja...Read More

Space Development Agency’s data-transport satellites get more complex

Space Development Agency’s data-transport satellites get more complex By Sandra Erwin The 72 data-transport satellites that the Space D...Read More

Benchmark wins AFRL award to develop thrusters for ASCENT

Benchmark wins AFRL award to develop thrusters for ASCENT By Debra Werner Benchmark Space Systems won a $2.81 million U.S. Air Force Re...Read More

Op-ed | Welcome to the Third Space Age

Op-ed | Welcome to the Third Space Age By Lt. Gen. John Shaw As the commercial sector takes the lead on developing digital age technolo...Read More

Ancient Cracked Mud Found on Mars

Ancient Cracked Mud Found on Mars By Laurence Tognetti A recent study published in Nature examines how mud cracks observed on Mars by N...Read More

NASA confirms multi-year delay in next New Frontiers competition

NASA confirms multi-year delay in next New Frontiers competition By Jeff Foust NASA has confirmed it is delaying the release of the cal...Read More

Crew-7 Reaches the International Space Station

Crew-7 Reaches the International Space Station By Nancy Atkinson SpaceX Crew-7, the next group of four astronauts, are now on board the I...Read More

NASA’s New Horizons Mission Still Threatened