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A NASA study examined several options for continuing a national laboratory in low Earth orbit after the International Space Station but stopped short of recommending a specific option. The post NASA report studies option...

As space missions and technologies grow increasingly interconnected, NASA has released the first iteration of its Space Security Best Practices Guide to bolster mission cybersecurity efforts for both public sector and pr...

After a journey spanning almost two decades, Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser reusable spaceplane, named Tenacity, is officially undergoing environmental testing at NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility located at ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised to launch for a record-setting 19th time tonight (Dec. 22), sending 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit.

Four giant flippers, a long tail, and a dorsal fin help a recently classified mosasaur stand apart, warranting a grand title inspired by Japanese mythology.

This whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth. In addition to being a well-defined spiral galaxy, MCG-01-24-014 has an extremely ene...

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, named in honor of noted physicist Enrico Fermi, has been in operation for almost a decade and a half, monitoring the cosmos for gamma rays. As the highest-energy form of light, these ...

After a NASA mission redirected an asteroid moonlet with a planned crash in 2022, a new model is building on that effort to show how a nuclear weapon could smash a space rock to pieces.

The agency's DSN provides critical communications and navigation services to dozens of space missions, and it's being modernized to support dozens more. NASA's Deep Space Network marks its 60th year on Dec. 24. In contin...

In November, we reported how an impact on the Moon from a Chinese Long March rocket booster created an unusual double crater. For a single booster to create a double crater, some researchers thought there must have been ...

Launching in Jan. 2024, the Einstein Probe will use a "lobster eye" to search the universe for blasts of X-rays and help scientists investigate powerful cosmic events like supernova explosions.

Even though the guts of General Relativity are obtusely mathematical, and for decades was relegated to math departments rather than proper physics, you get to experience the technological gift of relativity every time yo...

In this image from Dec. 8, 2017, four reindeer walk past the Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses, or BARREL, payload on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. BARREL primari...

Nearly two years ago in the early morning hours of Dec. 25, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope successfully took flight from the jungle-encircled ELA-3 launch complex at Europe's Spaceport near Kourou, French Guiana. Foll...

For the first time, an instrument to find planets light years away was used on an object in the solar system, in a study on Jupiter's winds.

The Webb telescope has opened a new window onto the universe, but it builds on missions going back 40 years, including Spitzer and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. On Dec. 25, NASA will celebrate the two-year launch ...

The Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year holidays are joyful events typically spent with family and friends. Astronauts and cosmonauts who find themselves in space during the holidays have found their own unique way to cele...

We've all heard the "Twelve Days of Christmas," but for those with a passion for space, let's sing along to the "12 space patches of Christmas" designed by an artist to the real stars, Tim Gagnon.

A widely publicized deep-sea excursion leaves five dead, raising big questions for ocean exploration.

Six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: "Has man's conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?"

The former OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sets off on a journey to study asteroid Apophis and take advantage of the asteroid's 2029 flyby of Earth, the likes of which hasn't happened since the dawn of recorded history.

Military leaders argue that the Department of Defense must be more involved if the US is to win the new space race for a lunar outpost. The post To win the new space race, NASA and the DoD need to shift their collaborati...