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A new federal strategy seeks to coordinate activities among agencies and interaction with the private sector to advance work making and repairing spacecraft in space. The post White House releases in-space servicing stra...

As space systems face growing cyberattacks, the Aerospace Corp. and TriSept Corp. are preparing separate flight tests of software to alert satellite operators of anomalies detected onboard. The post Satellites to test-fl...

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said DoD still has a long way to go in making its procurement process more suitable for the commercial industry The post Deputy secretary Hicks: DoD is searching for better ways to...

Can other planets have geomagnetic storms, even if their magnetosphere is weak and they don’t have an ionosphere like Earth? This question has now been answered, according to research done by a team of scientists in th...

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll feel the heat from today’s topic: tidal heating! Tidal heating happens when the gravity of an object is strong enough to flex a...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will see the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang, but to do that, its instruments first need to get cold--really cold. On April 7, Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI)--a joint de...

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Scientists are studying a "cosmic dawn" object born just 750 million years after the Big Bang.

NASA will provide coverage of spacewalks Monday, April 18, and Thursday, April 28, as Russian cosmonauts venture outside the International Space Station to activate a new robotic arm attached to the Nauka module.

It was a very busy day aboard the International Space Station as the 11-person crew focused on human research experiments and spacewalk preparations....

A minuscule amount of microscopic moon dust sold for half a million dollars after NASA determined that the particles came from the first lunar sample collected by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong.

The team is buzzing at Axiom Mission Control Center (MCC-A) in Houston as they assist the crew conduct groundbreaking research and integrate commercial payloads while on the International Space Station....

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station have had their launch pushed back again, to April 23.

The European Space Agency will discontinue its cooperation on Russia's Luna 25, Luna 26 and Luna 27 moon missions, ESA officials announced Wednesday (April 13)

The James Webb Space Telescope notched a cool milestone -- literally -- during its months-long calibration for deep-space observations.

The U.S. Space Force in 2025 plans to launch to geostationary orbit three small satellites that will attempt to dock with a propellant tanker so they can be refueled in space. The post Space Force looking at what it will...

Startup accelerators are an important ingredient of the evolving space ecosystem. Entrepreneurs say accelerators are particularly helpful for startups looking to break into the military space market. The post Accelerator...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover unexpectedly changed its course up Mount Sharp to avoid hazardous "gator-back" terrain.

When astronauts begin exploring Mars, they will face numerous challenges. Aside from the time and energy it takes to get there and all the health risks that come with long-duration missions in space, there are also the h...

Direct images of exoplanets are rare and lack detail. Future observatories might change that, but for now, exoplanet images don't tell researchers very much. They merely show the presence of the planets as blobs of light...

Earth Day occurs annually on April, 22. It began in 1970 and celebrates the environmental diversity of Earth and highlights ways of protecting it.

Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) is in the foreground on Launch Pad 39A with NASA's Artemis I in the background on Launch Pad 39B on April 6, 2022.