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Using NASA's Spitzer and WISE space telescopes, astronomers from the Steward Observatory and elsewhere have observed a well-known variable star designated RZ Piscium. They found that the star's circumstellar debris disk ...

Rocket Lab is preparing to return its Electron rocket to flight before the end of the year as it completes an investigation into a launch failure in September. The post Rocket Lab projects Electron return to flight in fo...

ABL Space Systems is moving into the final phases of preparations for the second launch of its RS1 rocket after the company's first launch failed in January. The post ABL Space Systems prepares for second RS1 launch appe...

Researchers have developed a new computer simulation of the early universe that closely aligns with observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

No need to panic, but the Andromeda Galaxy is barreling towards us. It is due to begin merging with the our Milky Way Galaxy in a few billion years. From an outside observer, that process will very likely look like this ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory announced new Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, or CRADAs, between the U.S. Space Force and two Indian startups. The post AFRL, Space Force to collaborate with Indian star...

A preview of musician Kid Cudi's new superpowered sci-fi series from Image Comics, "Moon Man"

Star-forming nebulae are busy places. Unfortunately, clouds of gas and dust usually hide the action. To cut through the dust in one such region, a team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). They ...

Aleksandra Stankovic is an aerospace psychologist and spaceflight biomedical researcher who studies how to optimize human performance and behavioral health in extreme operational environments. In this article, she descri...

An engineer prepares a small rover for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber on Oct. 24, 2023, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

Picture soaring over a rugged canyon on another world, strapped into an imaginary hang glider. Or getting a bird's eye view of craters that stretch on for miles and following along the same paths as the robotic rovers th...

The three spaceflyers of China's Shenzhou 17 mission reached the Tiangong space station early Oct. 26, just 6.5 hours after lifting off from the Gobi Desert.

Lee esta historia en inglés aquí. Hoy en día, los pasajeros de avión esperan un viaje tranquilo con pocas turbulencias. Aunque las turbulencias no siempre pueden evitarse, las consideraciones y diseños de los avion...

Testing for NASA's Dragonfly mission is underway as engineers get the aerial rotorcraft ready for its anticipated 2027 departure to explore Saturn's moon, Titan.

Marvel Comics drops news at NYCC for three new 'Star Wars' series starting in 2024.

To understand the universe, we need to understand the extreme processes that shape it and drive its evolution. Things like supermassive black holes (SMBHs,) supernovae, massive reservoirs of dense gas, and crowds of star...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has always been plagued by uncertainty. With only one habitable planet (Earth) and one technologically advanced civilization (humanity) as examples, scientists are stil...

NASA's DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) slammed into asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022, changing its orbital period. Ground and space-based telescopes turned to watch the event unfold, not only to study...

Jupiter's Io stands apart from the solar system's other moons, with its numerous volcanoes and its surface dominated by lava flows. Io's surface volcanism was confirmed in 1979 when the Voyager spacecraft imaged it, but ...

NASA's Exploration Ground Systems conducts a water flow test with the mobile launcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center's in Florida on Oct. 24, 2023. It is the third in a series of tests to verify the overpressure protecti...

Goddard's GIANT optical navigation software helped guide the OSIRIS-REx mission to the Asteroid Bennu. Today its developers continue to add functionality and streamline useability for future missions.

NASA is demonstrating laser communications on multiple missions--showcasing the benefits infrared light can have for science and exploration missions transmitting terabytes of important data.