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NASA currently has no plans to trade any of its Apollo-era lunar samples with those returned by China's Chang'e-5 mission, although then agency's chief scientist held out hope for such an exchange in the future. SpaceNew...

We're getting a bird's-eye view of some of the damage Ida has wrought, thanks to before-and-after photos snapped by Maxar Technologies' WorldView-2 satellite.

Brown dwarfs aren't quite stars and aren't quite planets, and a new study suggests there might be more of them lurking in our galaxy than scientists previously thought....

A one-week delay in the launch of the next Landsat satellite on an Atlas 5 is the result of a ripple effect in the supply chain caused by increased demand for liquid oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients. SpaceNews

Powerful eyes in the sky watched the menacing maelstrom Ida churn through the southern United States, even at night.

Learn all about the U.S. Space Force's robotic X-37B space plane, which has flown six mystery missions to date.

SpaceX has hit back at Amazon over its attempt to block amended plans for a second-generation Starlink constellation, calling it a delay tactic to slow down competition. SpaceNews

China is looking at ways of expanding its space exploration capabilities including through a vehicle similar in appearance to NASA's Ingenuity helicopter. SpaceNews

The leak was confirmed by the game's creative director during Gamescom last week.

The Taurid meteor shower is relatively sparse, but may display impressive fireballs.

The Caldor Fire, one of the largest in California's history, has been blazing since Aug. 14, 2021.

When NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet, the agency's Deep Space Network (DSN) was there, enabling the mission to send and receive the data that helped make the event possible. When OSIRIS...

A group of 13 members of Congress in a letter argue that DoD should support Lockheed Martin's proposed $4.4 billion acquisition of rocket engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne. SpaceNews

In the early solar system, terrestrial planets like Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are thought to have formed from planetesimals, small early planets. These early planets grew over time, through collisions and mergers, t...

The familiar star at the center of our solar system has had billions of years to mature and ultimately provide life-giving energy to us here on Earth. But a very long time ago, our sun was just a growing baby star. What ...

The European Sentinel 2 satellite has flown over Mount Etna just as the volcano, the most active in Europe, erupted for the 50th time this year on Sunday (Aug 29).

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA personnel at the agency's manufacturing facility in Louisiana are continuing to evaluate damage caused by Hurricane Ida, which made landfall on Sunday (Aug. 29).

Dust on Mars gets everywhere – including on top of ice deposited during one of Mars' previous ice ages. Just how that dust affects the ice is still up for some debate. Adding to that debate, a recent paper by researche...

American Astronomical Society:

By analyzing the data from NASA's Fermi spacecraft and Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescope, an international team of astronomers has investigated a millisecond pulsar known as PSR J0218+4232. Resu...

ESA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs are opening the second round of their HyperGES fellowship, part of the Access to Space For All Initiative, offering student teams around the globe the chance to p...