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NASA will release new images from the James Webb Space Telescope and discuss its mirror alignment today (March 16)

NorthStar Earth & Space, a company planning a satellite constellation to collect space situational awareness (SSA) data, is working with Spire to field an initial fleet of spacecraft. The post Spire to build space situat...

Ingenuity now has clearance to continue flying until at least September, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced today (March 15).

NASA's new space telescope has gazed into the distant universe and shown perfect vision: a spiky image of a faraway star photobombed by thousands of ancient galaxies.

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NASA has awarded the Ground Systems and Mission Operations-3 (GSMO-3) contract to KBR Wyle Services LLC of Greenbelt, Maryland. The contract will provide services including systems engineering, facility engineering, laun...

The James Webb Space Telescope's main mirror is fully aligned and performs better than it had been designed for, NASA revealed in a briefing on Wednesday (March 16).

Students from Los Angeles will have an opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll feel a little dense after reading about today’s topic: neutron stars! Neutron stars are the densest objects in the entire unive...

Many of Ukraine's cherished cultural sites and artifacts are already lost.

Former astronaut Scott Kelly plans to halt his Twitter fight with a senior Russian space official, at NASA's request.

There's a powerful new member of NASA's family of giant antennas that enable engineers and scientists on Earth to communicate with the growing number of spacecraft exploring our solar system.

If humanity is ever going to find life on another planet in the solar system, it's probably best to know where to look. Plenty of scientists have spent many, many hours pondering precisely that question, and plenty have ...

A quantum experiment simulates how Hawking radiation could affect quantum systems. The post A new way to Confirm Hawking's Idea That Black Holes Give off Radiation appeared first on Universe Today.

Eugene Parker, a pioneering American astrophysicist who developed a mathematical model predicting the stream of charged particles from the Sun known as solar wind, has died aged 94, NASA said on Wednesday.

Here's the science behind "shooting stars" and the best way to spot these meteors.

A week after calling off a SPAC merger intended to raise $420 million for a constellation of commercial weather radar satellites, Tomorrow.io said March 16 its two pathfinder spacecraft passed their critical design revie...

Traces of gold in the world's oceans have captivated ambitious minds for more than 100 years. We're still seeking new, inventive ways to extract the precious metal.

The next great observatory is sharpening its vision and can now boast a clear view of a single star.

Scientists from Ural Federal University, the Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), and the Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (the Netherlands) have created the most comprehensive and convenient onli...

Following the completion of critical mirror alignment steps, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope team expects that Webb's optical performance will be able to meet or exceed the science goals the observatory was b...

Nothing says springtime on Mars like defrosting dunes. In Mars' northern hemisphere, springtime has arrived, and observations from the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Experiment) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter h...