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Undersecretary of Defense Ronald Moultrie: The decision to release satellite imagery and other intelligence on Russia's movements 'was not taken lightly' The post DoD intelligence chief: U.S. made 'gutsy decision' to rel...

As Artemis astronauts walk on the moon, these NASA backpacks will chronicle lunar features in context.

China plans to set up a constellation around the moon to provide communication and navigation services for future complex operations on the lunar surface. The post China to build a lunar communications and navigation con...

The Commerce Department has hired a veteran of government and industry to be the next director of the Office of Space Commerce. The post DalBello to lead Office of Space Commerce appeared first on SpaceNews.

Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt was a serious scholar who wrote about her scientific findings.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency's Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery des...

The first solar eclipse of 2022 arrives this week across parts of the Southern Hemisphere -- here's how you can watch the event live online from other parts of the world.

Launched on December 25, 2021 from ESA’s launch site in Kourou, French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reached its final orbit at the L2 Lagrange point on January 24, 2022. It ha...

Today, South Africa is an evident center of gravity in the African space community. It hosts some of the world's most sophisticated ground-based space infrastructure, its space supply chain is strong, and its public sect...

An international group of astronomers led by Benjamin Thomas of The University of Texas at Austin has used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at the university's McDonald Observatory to unlock a puzzling ...

Jessica Watkins made history on Wednesday by becoming the first Black woman launched into space for an extended mission on the International Space Station.

A new analysis of meteorite samples has found the building blocks of life that have eluded scientists so far. The post All Five of Life's Informational Components can Form in Space appeared first on Universe Today.

The "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" fashionable Starfleet boots from designer John Fluevog can be yours for $399.

Hot Jupiters are giant exoplanets - even more massive than Jupiter - but they orbit closer to their star than Mercury. When they were first discovered, hot Jupiters were considered oddballs, since we don’t have anythin...

"Star Trek: Voyager" scores a comprehensive new making-of documentary from filmmaker David Zappone.

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is back in Wanaka, New Zealand, for another flight test of its super pressure balloon, or SPB, technology to support science missions for longer flight durations, with flights running up...

NGA is trying to match requirements with commercially available technology, said Frank Avila, commercial and business operations deputy director at the National Geospatial-intelligence Agency The post Government trying t...

SpaceX is the maker of Starship and a private space company known for its International Space Station missions.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts are in orbit following their launch to the International Space Station at 3:52 a.m. EDT Wednesday, April 27, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida....

Now that Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) crew is safely back on Earth it's time for the SpaceX Crew-4 mission to depart to the International Space Station....

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is the vehicle that launches satellites, Dragon cargo spacecraft and Crew Dragon spacecraft to orbit.

Photovoltaic systems would be better than nuclear fission for missions that set up shop near the Martian equator, according to a new study.