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NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans will partially reopen May 18, allowing some mission-critical personnel to resume working there for the first time in two months. SpaceNews.com

Earlier this year, an international team of scientists announced the second detection of a gravitational-wave signal from the collision of two neutron stars. The event, called GW190425, is puzzling: The combined mass of ...

The U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center's Launch Enterprise team and its mission partners successfully launched the USSF-7 mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle for the Department of the Air Force's R...

The contract is for two Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared missile warning satellites to be deployed in polar orbits. SpaceNews.com

Rationalization of the startup landscape and the right sizing of company balance sheets is inevitable, paving the way for "Space 3.0," which will see the profitable and sustainable exploitation of entirely new market opp...

After examining a dozen types of suns and a roster of planet surfaces, Cornell University astronomers have developed a practical model--an environmental color "decoder"--to tease out climate clues for potentially habitab...

The results of the experiment could drive the design of a dedicated spacecraft to capture solar power in space. SpaceNews.com

The study of exoplanets has revolutionized our understanding of how planets are born and evolve. And now, a new theory applies those insights closer to home.

The two giant planets of the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, will snuggle up in the predawn sky this week, offering spectacular views for night owls and early risers.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

New evidence shows the first-ever pictures capturing the birth of a pair of planets orbiting the star PDS 70 are in fact authentic.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers launched PRAM, the Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module, aboard an Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on May 17 as part of a comprehensive investigation into prospective ...

NASA will host a special edition of NASA Science Live at 11 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 20, to share an exciting announcement about the agency's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission.

I always remember hearing the comparison of how the Space Shuttle's main engines would drain an average family swimming pool in under 25 seconds. Or that the Saturn V used the equivalent of 763 elephants of fuel. But jus...

NASA should forget about using Starship as a lunar lander (at least for now) and instead use it as an in-orbit refueling station for much smaller landing and ascent vehicles. SpaceNews.com

The mystery of some lava-like flows on Mars has been solved by scientists who say they are caused not by lava but by mud.

SpaceX's latest Starlink satellite launch has been delayed because of tropical storm Arthur. The mission will now take off after the company's crewed Demo-2 launch, which is scheduled for May 27.

Government satellites have spotted the first named storm of the 2020 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, Tropical Storm Arthur, swirling off the coast of North Carolina.

The biggest stars in the universe are some of the most fascinatingly complex objects to inhabit the cosmos. Indeed, giant stars have defied full explanation for decades, especially when they're near the end of their live...

We live in a big-city galaxy. The Milky Way is so big it has satellite galaxies that orbit it, just as the Moon orbits the Earth. These arrangements tell us a great deal about the secrets of the universe--from how galaxi...

An international team of astronomers has conducted high-resolution optical spectroscopy and X-ray observations of the symbiotic star EF Aquilae. Results of these observations have untangled the nature of this object. The...

Here's a step-by-step explainer of what will happen during SpaceX's first Crew Dragon mission with astronauts, from prelaunch preparations to splashdown.