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Students from eight community college and university teams will see more than a year of effort take flight into space with the launch of Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Vi...

The team behind the "umbrella-like" deployable heat shield design called ADEPT, or the Adaptable, Deployable, Entry and Placement Technology, is testing out a new material to deliver science payloads on future missions t...

At least hundreds of people congregated on the tarmac at Kabul's international airport amid mass evacuations

With 11 crewmembers, two SpaceX Crew Dragon missions and a Russian module mishap, it's been a busy mission! See photos of the Expedition 65 crew in action.

According to the recently released IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, climate change is going to get significantly worse if we don't seriously clean up our act (and soon!) The post A new Assessment of the World’s Climate is...

NASA has awarded a contract to TechTrans International (TTI) Inc. of Houston to provide translation, interpretation, language training, and logistics services for the agency's International Space Station Program, with th...

NASA has selected Leidos Inc. of Reston, Virginia, to provide program, science, engineering, operations, and project management support at the agency's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California.

Models and lab tests suggest the asteroid could be venting sodium vapor as it orbits close to the Sun, explaining its increase in brightness.

Blue Origin is now suing NASA in its latest attempt to push back against the agency's decision to award SpaceX its moon lander contract.

Blue Origin has filed suit against NASA in federal court, arguing that the agency failed to properly evaluate its proposal for the agency's Human Landing System program, a procurement won by SpaceX. SpaceNews

They’re not quite stars and not quite planets but can help us understand both --

Scientists used Saturn's famous rings as a seismograph to study processes in the planet's interior. The researchers found its core is like a soup consisting of rocks, ices and metallic fluids.

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In the same way that earthquakes cause our planet to rumble, oscillations in the interior of Saturn make the gas giant jiggle around ever so slightly. Those motions, in turn, cause ripples in Saturn's rings.

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! Watch out for today’s topic: doppler shift! We’ve all heard the wailing of the ambulance as it rushes by. Not only does it get louder...

A novel experiment aimed at studying the mechanics of amyloid fibrils--a type of protein aggregation associated with diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's--started today aboard the International Space Stat...

A region of active star formation in the constellation Ophiuchus is giving astronomers new insights into the conditions in which our own solar system was born. In particular, a new study of the Ophiuchus star-forming com...

A pair of researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has published a perspective piece in the journal Science outlining the efforts being conducted this decade to find out if Mars once hosted life. In t...

An international team of astronomers has conducted a detailed study of a high-redshift young radio source designated J2102+6015. Results of the research, presented in a paper published August 4 on arXiv pre-print reposit...

Landsat 9, a joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey satellite mission, is scheduled to launch Thursday, Sept. 16, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

he Government Accountability Office offered more details about its decision to reject protests filed by two companies of NASA's Human Landing System (HLS) award to SpaceX. SpaceNews

Satellite imagery reveals that Mount Etna has gotten 100 feet taller in the past six months.