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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, second from right, NASA associate administrator Bob Cabana, far right, and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy (back to camera) speak with the 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class, Wednesday, O...

A SpaceX executive used a Senate hearing to express frustration with the slow pace of launch licensing reviews that is holding up the next flight of the company's Starship vehicle. The post SpaceX frustrated by Starship ...

The procurement arm of the U.S. Space Force is making a major push to work more closely with allies abroad and is pressing the Pentagon to adjust classification policies to allow for more open sharing of information with...

A new NASA video explains what will happen when the space agency's Lucy probe flies by the space rock Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, in a test ahead of its trek to the Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit.

Binary black holes are believed to inevitably spiral together, but dark energy and the expanding universe could help them maintain a safe distance and mimic a single black hole.

Spanish launch vehicle startup PLD Space declared their first suborbital launch a success, clearing the way for development of an orbital launch vehicle. The post PLD Space calls first launch a success appeared first on ...

The Space Development Agency has awarded York Space a $615 million contract for 62 satellites for DoD's low Earth orbit constellation. The post Space Development Agency awards York Space $615 million contract for 62 sate...

Improved lighting standards coming into force across the whole of Chile will protect astronomy observations, public health and wildlife.

Explore the fascinating concept of negligible senescence, a phenomenon observed in certain animals that seems to defy aging. Learn more about this biological process and its implications.

NASA engineers created a simulated lunar environment, including large rocks, steep slopes and deep craters, to test the mobility of a new moon rover prototype called VIPER.

Solicitation Number: NNH16ZCQ001K-CIS-Appendix_L Solicitation Overview NASA has released a solicitation notice under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (Next STEP-2) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA...

Earth is our only example of a habitable planet, so it makes sense to search for Earth-size worlds when we’re hunting for potentially-habitable exoplanets. When astronomers found seven of them orbiting a red dwarf star...

Canada's newly announced plan to invest 1 billion Canadian dollars ($739 million)  over the next 15 years in the Radarsat mission is part of the federal government's climate resilience strategy. […] The post Canada’...

Jupiter's ocean moons capture most of our attention because of their potential habitability. But Io, Jupiter's bad-boy volcanic moon, is in a class of its own. There's nothing else like it in the solar system, and NASA's...

Everyone likes a cool infographic, right? Does that statement hold even if the infographic points out a gap in our knowledge that could kill millions of people? Because that's what a cool-looking infographic NASA release...

NASA recently built and tested an additively-manufactured--or 3D printed--rocket engine nozzle made of aluminum, making it lighter than conventional nozzles and setting the course for deep space flights that can carry mo...

What astronomers can measure using telescopes is not what we really want to know - instead, we calculate the properties we're interested in studying by observing and interpreting apparent properties from afar.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 26, to discuss a laser communications system and new research to understand the interactions between weather on Earth and in space. The investigations a...

NASA invites media to the 16th Annual von Braun Space Exploration Symposium from Wednesday to Friday, Oct. 25-27, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.  Among the NASA participants, Administrator Bill Nelson will ...

A sneak peek at Insight Editions' "Star Wars: The Secrets of the Wookiees," a new all-ages book from Insight Editions available on Nov. 28.

The Milky Way is just one galaxy in a vast cosmic web that makes up the Universe’s large-scale structure. While ESA’s Gaia spacecraft is building a map of our stellar neighborhood, a team of astronomers with the Dark...

The efforts should help extend the lifetimes of the agency's interstellar explorers. Engineers for NASA's Voyager mission are taking steps to help make sure both spacecraft, launched in 1977, continue to explore interste...