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One-year-old Californian startup AnySignal emerged from stealth mode Oct. 16 with $5 million in funding behind a multi-purpose space radio platform. The post Space radio developer AnySignal emerges from stealth appeared ...

Humans can’t seem to interact with the environment at all without fouling it in some way. From plastic bags in the ocean’s deepest regions to soot on Himalayan glaciers, our waste is finding its way into Earth’s mo...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has reached a record-breaking speed as it gets a gravitational assist from Venus to fall closer to the sun's scorching surface.

Providers of the subsystems and components needed to support a surge of proposed satellites are set to drive deal activity into 2024, according to space investors speaking during the Satellite Innovation conference Oct. ...

A review of this week's 'Quantum Leap' episode, 'Closure Encounters,' which takes Ben Song back to 1949 New Mexico to investigate UFO sightings.

India plans to land astronauts on the moon by 2040 and build a space station by 2035, officials announced on Tuesday (Oct. 17).

Guests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center can now see a space shuttle launch, a SpaceX Starship land on the moon and astronauts walk on the surface of Mars, all before they enter the visitor complex.

Astronomers have created a detailed atlas of almost 400,000 galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood. The Siena Galaxy Atlas was compiled using data from NSF's NOIRLab telescopes, and is designed to be the preeminent digital ...

Eclipse-gazers across the United States got a chance last weekend to watch as the Moon aligned with the Sun to create an annular eclipse. They watched from the ground for a short experience of not-quite-darkness. NASA’...

New mysteries aboard the International Space Station came to light during a space archaeology project tracking crew use of key spaces. Cake frosting, pegboards and dry wipes all came under scrutiny for better space habit...

The dog-fox hybrid that briefly occupied Brazil's animal experts, and the world's social media feeds, is a sign of human encroachment and reproduction gone sideways.

The birth of a star is a spectacular event that plays out behind a veil of gas and dust. It’s a detailed process that takes millions of years to play out. Once a star leaves its protostar stage behind and begins its li...

As NASA plans missions to the Moon and Mars, a key factor is figuring out how to feed crew members during their weeks, months, and even years in space. Astronauts on the International Space Station primarily eat prepacka...

A network of space-based lasers could help nudge debris away from collision courses with the International Space Station, according to new research.

HAMPTON, Virginia - Members of the media are invited to cover the Open House at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The event takes place 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. Media will have photo...

The Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) provides undergraduate students entering their junior or senior years, and entering graduate students, with professional experience in space life science disciplines. This...

NASA's Juno spacecraft photographed Jupiter's moon Io during an Oct. 15 flyby, showing its tortured, volcanically-active surface.

Wherever there are humans, there are microbes, too. Bacteria and fungi live all around us, in our homes, offices, industrial areas, the outdoors - even in space. People literally could not live without these tiny organis...

The new Siena Galaxy Atlas is an information gold mine for astronomers and a free gallery of galaxy portraits for the public.

In October 1968, the American human spaceflight program took significant steps toward achieving President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth before the end of the de...

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is the latest satellite contributing to a 30-year sea level record that researchers are using to compare this year's El Niño with those of the past. Not all El Niño events are created equal....

NASA's Brian Key and Scott Bellamy accepted the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal on behalf of a mission team for the first planetary defense test during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Ar...