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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter just made its 65th and 66th Mars flights, two short hops that positioned the chopper properly for the coming 'solar conjunction.'

A distant, partly shadowed Earth, as viewed from a 6,000-km-altitude orbit. This unusual image was acquired using an extremely miniaturized camera about the size of the edge of a 20 cent coin--a miniscule technology expe...

Europe's first continental spaceport, dubbed Andøya, has opened in Norway.

Ecologist Kelly Weinersmith discusses important unanswered questions about human space settlement in her new book, "A City on Mars."

The future museum display of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour took a giant step upward as cranes lifted the first of two solid rocket motors into the vertical at the California Science Center.

Virgin Galactic said it will lay off staff and cut expenses to conserve resources for its next generation of suborbital spaceplanes. The post Virgin Galactic lays off staff as it focuses on next-generation suborbital veh...

Asked if he is having second thoughts about his proposed tenets, Frank Calvelli said he would double down on these reforms. The post Space Force procurement chief to 'double down' on reforms appeared first on SpaceNews.

Bulgaria will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 10 a.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 9, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will host officials from Bulgaria and the U.S. Department of...

NASA’s Super Guppy arrives in Alabama on Nov. 6, 2023, carrying the heat shield that protected Orion's crew module during its flight on Artemis I. The one-of-a-kind, turboprop-powered aircraft ferried the heat shield f...

Astronomers developed a sophisticated computer simulation to explore whether or not strange star Betelgeuse may be the result of a merger between two smaller stars.

Still Serving: Honoring Marshall, Michoud Veterans Many members of the workforce at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Michoud Assembly Facility served in the U.S. Armed Forces before beginning their NASA careers, a...

A supernova explosion is a cataclysmic explosion that marks the violent end of a massive star's life. During the event, the star releases immense amounts of energy, often outshining the combined light from all the stars ...

Saturn's ocean moon, Enceladus, is attracting increasing attention in the search for life in our solar system. Most of what we know about Enceladus and its ice-covered ocean comes from the Cassini mission. Cassini ended ...

The Orion for Artemis 2, humanity's first lunar mission in 50 years, powered on successfully on Nov. 6. It will carry four astronauts around the moon no earlier than 2024.

Many experts believe that Earth likely collided with a small planet not long after Earth's formation. Now a team has proposed that huge sections of planet Theia remain pooled in the Earth's mantle.

Hulu just approved two more seasons of 'Futurama,' taking the beloved animated series through season 14.

Dr. Peter Griffith serves as the director of NASA's Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Griffith scientific journey began by swimming in lakes as a child, then to scuba diving wi...

Landing safely on an asteroid is no mean feat. Despite several recent successes, there have also been notable failures--most famously, the Philae lander to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Admittedly, that was an attempt to la...

Inside the Tiangong space station's Mengtian experiment module, there's a small, dextrous arm that can assist astronauts' everyday activities, Chinese broadcaster CCTV revealed.

Researchers are working to decode whale songs, which may help us decode alien messages.

The Space Force's Space Systems Command selected several startups and universities to participate in a new accelerator program focused on enhancing space domain awareness. The post Startups, universities selected for acc...

Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one-half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF's NOIRLab, have captured the eroding remains of more than 100 dwarf galaxies as they transition into ultra-co...