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Two startups recently raised a combined $25 million in seed rounds to advance plans for lunar and asteroid missions, showing continued interest in space startups despite broader market uncertainty. The post Startups rais...

NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft will make its 12th close flyby of our star on Wednesday (June 1), marking the halfway point of the mission.

A team of astronomers studied two nearby globular clusters, 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri, searching for signals produced by annihilating dark matter. Those the searches turned up empty, they weren't a failure. The lack ...

Dark matter doesn't really do much of anything in the present-day universe. But in the early days of the cosmos there may have been pockets of dark matter with high enough density that they provided a source of heat for ...

NASA on Wednesday announced it has awarded contracts to two companies to develop the next generation of spacesuits for missions to the International Space Station and the Moon.

NASA has selected two companies to make spacesuits for its Artemis moon program and future International Space Station missions.

Not long ago, the idea of photographing a black hole was as quixotic as photographing a unicorn. Now, scientists have not one but two images of two different supermassive black holes--and they both look as magical as fla...

A new study explains how bodies as different as Venus, Earth, Mars, Pluto, Titan, and Triton can all have sand dunes on their surface! The post Compare Sand Dunes Across the Solar System, From Venus to Pluto appeared fir...

We now have a date for our first real images from NASA's next-generation observatory.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is helping kick off a new initiative to deliver food and hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math kits, called Learning Lunchboxes, in Orlando at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, June 3...

Mankind's first look at conditions on a "super-Earth" 50 light years away is expected in coming weeks via the James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA is bracing to see the stuff of nightmares.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will release its first full-color images and spectroscopic data on 12 July 2022.

NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to advance spacewalking capabilities in low-Earth orbit and at the Moon, by buying services that provide astronauts with next generation spacesuit and spacewalk systems...

In February, one of NASA's Mars spacecraft slipped into a safe mode that nearly ended the mission.

La temporada de huracanes en el océano Atlántico comienza hoy, 1 de junio, y se extiende hasta el 30 de noviembre, y la NASA está preparada una vez más para ayudar a entender y vigilar las tormentas desde su singular...

The contracts recently awarded by the National Reconnaissance Office to BlackSky, Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs will likely reshape the imagery market, says a new report from Quilty Analytics. The post Analysts: NRO...

Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, carry little pieces of humanity in the form of their Golden Records.

The Atlantic Ocean hurricane season begins today, June 1, and runs through Nov. 30 and NASA is once again prepared to help understand and monitor storms from its unique vantage point of space.

A thorough understanding of galaxy evolution depends in part on an accurate measurement of the abundance of metals in the intergalactic medium--the space between stars--but dust can impede observations in optical wavelen...

Future fusion reactions inside tokamaks could shine even brighter than before, thanks to groundbreaking new research to find the maximum density of the hydrogen plasma fuel that powers them.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will release its first full-colour images and spectroscopic data on 12 July 2022.

A muscle study, a robotics test, and space physics hardware were the main research topics aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday....