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The contract is for the development of the U.S. Space Forces Space Data Network backbone The post SpaceX wins $2.29 billion Space Force contract for military data network appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA announced May 26 the first contracts associated with its plans to develop a lunar base, picking four companies to develop and deliver landers and drones to the moon. The post NASA selects four companies for initial ...

NASA envisions its moon base covering hundreds of square miles, and hopping scout drones may mark the facility's perimeter. The agency just awarded $1 billion in contracts to get the ball rolling.

Open Cosmos, based in the United Kingdom, is facing a 2028 deadline to field an ambitious broadband constellation for Europe. That system, ConnectedCosmos, aims to reduce reliance on undersea cables [] The post Open Cosm...

Students in New York will hear from NASA astronaut Jessica Meir as she answers their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-...

'Skeletor took my family and he destroyed our world. I'm gonna fight for it.'

In the heirarchy of black holes, intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) lie in between stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes. But the problem is that we've never found one. There have been hints, but no...

During a Moon Base event Tuesday at NASAs Headquarters in Washington, the agency announced new contracts for lunar rovers for crew to drive and uncrewed cargo landers bound for the Moon. NASA leaders also shared target l...

Scientists have captured one of the most detailed observations ever of a failed solar eruption, a powerful blast from the Sun that built into what should have been a billion tonne plasma ejection, then stalled and collap...

Astronomers have discovered a remarkable triple star system in which two Sun like stars orbit each other every 4.75 days, while a giant star, ten times the size of our Sun circles the pair every 412 days. All three orbit...

Our Sun is a loner. It lacks a stellar companion hurtling through interstellar space with it. But weve known for a long time thats actually relatively rare - most stars have at least one gravitationally bound partner. Un...

Satellites captured footage of an underwater volcano eruption in a part of the sea that remains largely a mystery.

Weve been reporting a lot lately on the negative impacts of satellite constellations. And unfortunately its time for another article about a paper pointing out the potential hazards of them. This one, by lead author Conn...

AMSTERDAM - The recent surge in European defense spending could bolster Europes entrepreneurial space sector, but only if bureaucratic roadblocks are cleared, panelists said at the SmallSat Europe conference. While [] Th...

The $16.5 million award is for thrust-control technology designed to make solid propulsion systems more adaptable across different missions and weapons programs The post Voyager wins DARPA contract for solid rocket prope...

Artist Ashley Zelinskie and DJ illich Mujica get psychedelic in New York City.

Chennai, on Indias southern coast along the Bay of Bengal and with a metropolitan population of about 8.7 million, shines with white LED streetlights in this photograph taken at approximately 9:13 p.m. local time on May ...

In a stellar flyby, a star approaches our Solar System close enough to create gravitational mayhem. The last one was 70,000 years ago. There are more in the future, and it's possible that they could disrupt comets fr...

The two boosters hang out mid-air after separation.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research are celebrating the publication of a vast new treasure trove of gravitational wave detections, hailed as a milestone marking the comin...

The universe may have its own version of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and that might be enough to explain dark energy without invoking any new physics at all.

Burdensome regulations and limited access to capital continue to act as a drag on Europes smallsat sector despite proposed new legislation and an influx of defense spending. The post Regulations and access to capital con...