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Call for Papers Date: August 13-14, 2024Location: Washington, D.C. Jointly organized by the NASA History Office and the Earth Science Division, this workshop seeks to document the important contributions of airborne camp...

The Canadian CASTOR telescope team wants to launch in 2029 to bring fresh ultraviolet eyes to the sky, like Hubble. But it needs funding from Canada's Parliament.

NASA is at the forefront of a new greenhouse gas hub that will provide more important information to aid in efforts to combat climate change.

The first launch of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur is likely to be delayed to early January to give the company time to complete a full dress rehearsal. The post First Vulcan launch likely to slip to January app...

Video: 00:00:45 Live conversation between ESA astronaut and commander of the International Space Station (ISS) Andreas Mogensen and the 2023 Nobel Prize laureates Ferenc Krausz (in physics) and Moungi Bawendi (in chemist...

Launch startup iSpace has successfully launched and landed a test article, a month after a first hop test, as Chinese reusable rocket efforts intensify. The post China's reusable rocket race heats up with new hop test ap...

NASA'S EMIT mission, placed on the International Space Station to learn how dust storms on Earth warm or cool the planet, has created the first complete maps of the world's dust source regions, providing precise location...

SpaceX plans to launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Dec. 11), just hours after it's scheduled to launch the U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane.

"There's this thing called the overview effect: Space has this effect on people that you could probably call almost spiritual. Everyone returns from spaceflight changed in one way or another. ... They see the Earth from ...

One of the chief objectives of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to study the formation and evolution of the earliest galaxies in the Universe, which emerged more than 13 billion years ago. To this end, scientists...

NASA’s Psyche mission began eight weeks ago when it launched from the Kennedy Space Center. While it won’t reach its objective, the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, until 2029, the spacecraft has already travelled 26 mill...

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a "Cosmic Christmas Bauble" that is actually the aftermath of a supernova. The stunning picture of Cassiopeia A was revealed by Jill Biden as part of the first-ever White House A...

The elements of the super-heavy lift SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for NASA's Artemis II mission are undergoing final preparations before shipment to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for stacking and pre-launch ...

Read this release in English here. Ya está abierta la acreditación para los medios de comunicación para el próximo lanzamiento de la misión científica de observación de la Tierra PACE (acrónimo inglés para Planc...

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Media accreditation is open for the upcoming launch of NASA's PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem) Earth observing science mission. NASA and SpaceX are targeting no e...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. More specifically, it is a barred spiral galaxy, meaning that within its central region, there is a bar shape off of which the spirals emanate. About two-thirds of spiral galaxies are ba...

Most of the times astronomers reported dramatic, cataclysmic events like neutron star mergers or the creation of a black hole; they are taking place light years away, typically in in another galaxy. While we can observe ...

In this image from Dec. 8, 1993, astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton works with equipment during a spacewalk. The spacewalk was part of an 11-day mission, Servicing Mission 1, to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Shortly aft...

Now that several decades have passed since the launch of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977, we look back on that time with a hazy sense of history and what the event meant for humanity’s ongoing odyssey. While the Voyage...

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli celebrated the first night of Hanukkah aboard the International Space Station with a felt menorah and video of a spinning dreidel in microgravity.

EMIT delivers first-of-a-kind maps of minerals in Earth's dust-source areas, enabling scientists to model the fine particles' role in climate change and more. NASA's EMIT mission has created the first comprehensive maps ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday that after more than 30 years of service, the agency's Stennis Space Center Director Richard Gilbrech will retire on Saturday, Jan. 13. Stennis Deputy Director John Bailey ...