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The Orion spacecraft will carry humans further into space than they have ever journeyed before in a series of increasingly challenging missions.

NASA and Rice University in Houston will host multiple events in September to celebrate the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's historic speech at Rice Stadium, rallying the nation to land astronauts on the Moon before...

Lake Mead isn't the only body of water giving up its secrets. Much of Europe is experiencing extreme drought, too.

The Artemis 1 mission will launch 10 revolutionary CubeSats into space with missions as varied as mapping water on the moon, assessing the risk of radiation to astronauts, and "drag-racing" past the moon.

A document thought to have been handwritten by Galileo Galilei is in fact a 20th-century fake.

NASA has selected three companies to further advance work on deployable solar array systems that will help power the agency's human and robotic exploration of the Moon under Artemis.

A new Aerospace study warns that in crises and conflicts, "commercial space actors risk getting caught in the middle of a tense and escalatory environment." The post Report: Industry has to face reality that commercial s...

Californian startup Epsilon3 said Aug. 23 it is building a software platform to help Axiom Space manage plans to deploy commercial modules on the International Space Station in 2024. The post Axiom taps Epsilon3 software...

With a week to go before the Artemis I rocket has its first shot at the moon, NASA managers said the hardware is good to go.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is heading back to an enchanting outcrop of sedimentary rocks the spacecraft first visited back in April.

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity took to the skies on Saturday (Aug. 20) for the first time in more than two months, acing a short hop that was its 30th overall Red Planet sortie.

Astrophotographer Judy Schmidt (aka. Geckzilla, SpaceGeck) is at it again! Earlier this month, she released a processed image of the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1365). The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently o...

A once-tiny spot on the sun's surface grew over the weekend to the size of Earth. It may end up launching some flares and solar eruptions our way.

While places like the Haughton-Mars Project do not perfectly model the soil chemistry, intense radiation, lower gravity, or thin atmosphere of Mars, there is still great value in the work done here.

The Artemis program may see the first European orbit the moon in 2025 and have European landers touch down on Earth's companion in early 2030s.

Northrop Grumman will partner with startup Firefly Aerospace, to continue sending cargo to the International Space Station. The post Firefly, Northrop Grumman to Redesign Antares appeared first on Universe Today.

Researchers used computer models to estimate the rocket's acoustic levels, determining they were not high enough to cause such damage.

Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system and enter interstellar space. The probe is still exploring the cosmos to this day.

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NASA and America are on the precipice of a space renaissance with the maiden voyage of the Space Launch System Rocket, part of the NASA Artemis program. The post Op-ed | The Space Launch System is America's Space Program...

La misión Prueba de redireccionamiento del asteroide doble (DART, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA, la primera en el mundo que pone a prueba una tecnología para defender a la Tierra de posibles peligros de asteroi...

A new map of Mars is changing the way we think about the planet's watery past, and showing where we should land in the future.