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Meteors hit much harder on Mars than they do on the Earth. Lack of atmosphere obviously contributes to that, but its proximity to the asteroid belt also makes the red planet a more likely target for some gravitationally ...

The Solar Orbiter launched on 10 February 2020 and is currently in cruise phase ahead of the main science mission, which begins November this year. While the four in situ instruments have been on for much of the time sin...

First Solar Orbiter movies showing coronal mass ejections (CMEs) A pair of CMEs were detected by multiple instruments during February's close flyby of the Sun CMEs are eruptions of particles from the solar atmosphere tha...

Today - Payloads: AC Touch: Per standard procedure, the crew touched both coated and uncoated coupons for this long-term investigation....

The Tyvak-0130 rideshare payload that flew to orbit May 15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 carries a miniature space telescope for possible commercial use. SpaceNews

China's first-ever Mars rover will roll into action on the Red Planet this weekend, if all goes according to plan.

United Launch Alliance scrubbed the launch of an Atlas V rocket today (May 17) due to an issue with the rocket's liquid oxygen system.

On Sept. 9, 2018, astronomers spotted a flash from a galaxy 860 million light years away. The source was a supermassive black hole about 50 million times the mass of the sun. Normally quiet, the gravitational giant sudde...

NASA has assigned Kayla Barron to serve as a mission specialist for the agency's SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, which is targeted to launch as early as Oct. 23.

Scientists have used the world's oldest crystals to determine the age of modern plate tectonics.

Voyager 1 continues to make discoveries, most recently catching the signature of interstellar space itself, a faint plasma "hum" scientists compared to gentle rain.

Scientists have succeeded in dating some of the oldest stars in the galaxy with unprecedented precision by combining data from the stars' oscillations with information about their chemical composition.

There's been a breakthrough in the case of the missing planets.

A five-year quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of "dark energy" is beginning officially today, May 17, at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. To complete its quest, the Dark Energy Spect...

Scientists searching for evidence of lensed gravitational waves have published new research outlining the most recent findings on their quest for the first detection of these elusive signals.

NOIRLab Press Releases:

On November 1, 1961, a number of prominent scientists converged on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, for a three-day conference. A year earlier, this facility had been the site of the...

The U.S. Space Force plans to spend billions of dollars over the next decade to convert huge amounts of data that resides in separate systems into a digital enterprise architecture. SpaceNews

Small launch startup ABL Space Systems announced May 17 it was selected by the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit to launch a military payload. SpaceNews

Astronomers have conducted detailed X-ray observations of a recently discovered supernova remnant (SNR) known as G53.41+0.03. Results of the observational campaign provide important insights into the properties of this o...

Technology development is on track for a European mission to demonstrate oxygen production from lunar soil in 2025.

China is set to launch the Tianzhou-2 space station cargo mission this week after rollout of a Long March 7 rocket at Wenchang spaceport. SpaceNews