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NASA is postponing the rollout of the first Space Launch System for a final pre-launch test by a month to give workers more time to complete vehicle preparations. The post NASA delays SLS rollout for launch rehearsal app...

The observatory will focus on planets we sometimes can't find close to home.

The NOAA weather satellite will move into the orbital position now occupied by GOES-17, which has an instrument issue.

New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex 'tug-of-war' lights up aurorae in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, using a combination of data from NASA's Juno probe and the Hubble Space Telescope.

This Friday, humanity will face the dark side of the moon.

The U.S. military and intelligence community have a growing demand for satellite imagery but their acquisition methods prevent them from taking advantage of a vibrant commercial market, says a new CSIS report. The post R...

NASA will hold a community town hall meeting at 1:30 p.m. EST Tuesday, Feb. 8, with Thomas H. Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Mission team members have begun the three-month process of aligning the $10 billion Webb, which launched on Dec. 25, NASA officials announced today (Feb. 3).

The WGS-11+ Wideband Global Satcom satellite that Boeing developed for the U.S. Space Force passed a critical design review and will transition to production. The post Space Force communications satellite WGS-11 clears c...

Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes. In a major new study, a team of astronomers from the University of Hawai i Institute for Astronomy ...

Astronomers have identified two different cases of "mini-Neptune" planets that are losing their puffy atmospheres and likely transforming into super-Earths. Radiation from the planets' stars is stripping away their atmos...

Black holes aren't always in the dark. Astronomers have spotted intense light shows shining from just outside the event horizon of supermassive black holes, including the one at our galaxy's core. However, scientists cou...

Delayed two years by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chandrayaan-3 mission will mark India's second attempt to land on the moon. The post India targets August launch for Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is preparing to make history as the first Black woman to embark on an extended mission in space.

Check out the most beautiful star clusters in the winter night sky.

The existence of water on Mars is a contentious subject. We know there used to be water on the surface of the planet, though it’s long gone now. We know there’s frozen water underground in the world, and we know ther...

SpaceX just added another 49 satellites to its growing Starlink internet megaconstellation.

From cheesecake to popcorn, our ancient ancestors were consuming some of our favorite foods well before we may have realized.

NASA will host a media call at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 10, to discuss the science and technology demonstrations bound for the International Space Station aboard Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft on the company's ...

To understand how life emerged, scientists investigate the chemistry of carbon and water. In the case of water, they track the various forms, or isotopes, of its constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms over the history of ...

The Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon is a great alternative to the $800/£700 beast.

A new study shows that a major solar storm took place roughly 9,200 years ago, a time when solar activity was believed to be more "quiet." The post Ice Cores Tell the Tale of an Incredibly Powerful Solar Storm That Hit t...