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The Defense Innovation Unit issued a new solicitation for proposals from private companies for a project known as the Hybrid Space Architecture. The post Defense Innovation Unit solicits new round of proposals for space ...

A new study helped scientists better constrain the possible properties of dark matter particles.

Experts are concerned that these blood-red light shows could be causing unknown problems for astronomy and communication.

This might indicate a "glaciological tipping point" on the Antarctic Peninsula, an important consideration as global warming continues to affect ocean temperatures.

Space exploration is always changing. Before February 2021 there had never been a human made craft flying around in the atmosphere of another world (other than rocket propelled landers arriving or departing). The Mars Pe...

A newly released video from the European Space Agency highlights a recent wet dress rehearsal for the space agency's new heavy-lift launch vehicle, and its 7-minute hot fire engine test.

The House Science Committee voted on party lines to send a commercial space bill to the full House, although with the possibility of modifications before a vote there. The post House Science Committee advances commercial...

French satellite imagery analysis provider Kayrros launched a free version of its global methane tracking map Nov. 29 to help hold governments and businesses to account for their emissions. The post Satellite imagery ana...

NASA is working to resume science operations of the agency's Hubble Space Telescope after it entered safe mode Nov. 23 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue. Hubble's instruments are stable, and the telescope is in go...

Those readers who have dabbled with astronomical imaging will be familiar with the technique of taking multiple images and then stacking them together to improve the strength of the signal, yielding better images. Taking...

"Fulminating gold" explodes to produce strange purple smoke. Now scientists have shown for the first time that the smoke contains gold nanoparticles.

In 1950, while sitting down to lunch with colleagues at the Los Alamos Laboratory, famed physicist and nuclear scientist Enrico Fermi asked his famous question: "Where is everybody?" In short, Fermi was addressing the al...

Ever want to play a game of cosmic billiards? That’s commonly how the DART mission was described when it successfully changed the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid last year. If you want an idea of how it works, just Goog...

DENVER - November 29, 2023 - Multiverse Media Inc., a Denver-based integrated media company that recently merged with SpaceNews, announces that it will focus its immediate efforts on growing its […] The post Multiverse...

Just one year before flying around the moon, the Artemis 2 astronauts autographed a part of the massive lunar rocket that will send them aloft in late 2024.

Cutting-edge computer simulations combined with theoretical calculations are helping astronomers better understand the origin of some of the universe's most energetic and mysterious light shows--gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs...

November 29, 2023 NASA has selected Dr. Joseph Westlake to fill the position of Heliophysics Division Director. Joe will join the Science Mission Directorate and assume his new role on Jan. 16, 2024. I am pleased to have...

The crew of China's Shenzhou 16 mission captured incredible images of the Tiangong Space Station as they departed on their way back to Earth.

The four-year fabrication of the Giant Magellan Telescope's seventh and final mirror has begun. This is what you should know about the next generation of Earth's biggest and most powerful telescopes.

The world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, has broken loose and is moving past the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula in new satellite images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.

Observations during a stellar occultation detected the presence of evolving material orbiting around Centaur (2060) Chiron, rather than a two-ring system interpretation, according to a paper by Planetary Science Institut...

City lights stretch across the United States like a string of holiday lights in this image taken from the International Space Station on Nov. 10, 2023. At far left, the lights of Chicago, Illinois, are outlined by Lake M...