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China's space agency appears to have lost contact with the Tianwen 1 orbiter and Zhurong rover from the nation's 1st Mars mission.

Daniel Porras, a former executive at the Secure World Foundation, has joined Rogue Space, a startup developing small satellites for in-orbit services. The post Rogue Space hires sustainability expert to advocate for star...

There's an awkward, irksome problem with our understanding of nature's laws that physicists have been trying to explain for decades.

China conducted its first two launches of 2023 over the weekend, sending three classified payloads into geosynchronous transfer orbit and five commercial satellites into sun-synchronous orbits. The post Pair of Chinese l...

Virgin Orbit is set to perform the first orbital launch from the United Kingdom as soon as Jan. 9, a milestone officials hailed as the start of a new era for the country's space industry. The post Virgin Orbit ready for ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released an hour-long time-lapse video that shows 133 days of the Sun’s life. The video shows the Sun’s chaotic surface, where great loops of plasma arch above the star along ...

A massive explosion on the sun unleashed a powerful solar flare from a new sunspot on Monday (Jan. 9), one that is slowly turning to face the Earth.

The Orion space capsule from Artemis I has come full circle, having launched from Kennedy Space Center, traveled 1.4 million miles in space and around the moon, splashed back down to Earth in the Pacific Ocean, and now j...

SpaceX's huge Starship vehicle could go orbital for the first time next month, if all goes according to plan.

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that the structures of galaxies in the early universe were much more diverse and mature than previously known. Scientists recently compared images of hund...

SpaceX plans to launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Monday night (Jan. 9), and you can watch the action live.

The U.S. Space Force is requesting information on laser communications systems to connect satellites in medium and high orbits. The post Space Force looking to extend laser communications to satellites in higher orbits a...

The institution's annual photography competition seeks to find "the most striking images of our cosmos."

The ancients didn’t have the scientific understanding of nature that we have now. All they could do was look up at the night sky and wonder, which isn’t a bad way to spend time. Part of understanding something is nam...

A new analysis of distant galaxies imaged by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows that they are extremely young and share some remarkable similarities to "green peas," a rare class of small galaxies in our cosmic back...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the newest satellite in its geostationary fleet, GOES-18, operational Jan. 4 and designated it GOES West. The post NOAA declares GOES-18 operational ahead of s...

If and when we ever get an asteroid mining industry off the ground, one of the most important decisions to be made in the structure of any asteroid mining mission would be how to get the resources back to where all of ou...

Space-age technologies have made fundamental changes to the way we live our lives. Avionics allow us to fly to other continents on almost a moment's notice. GNSS services enable us to navigate our cars on roads we've nev...

A tremendous shockwave several times the size of the Milky Way, launched by a "galactic intruder" forcing its way into the collection of galaxies has kickstarted several mysterious processes.

In a new study, a team of astronomers led by Haojing Yan at the University of Missouri used data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Observations and discovered 87 galaxies that could be the earli...

Shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan's Quintet are helping astronomers to understand how turbulence influences gas in the intergalactic medium.

A vintage NASA satellite launched in the 1980s and long-since turned to space junk met a fiery fate late Sunday as it fell back to Earth, NASA says.