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Researchers are studying data from a recent suborbital flight test to better understand lunar regolith, or moon dust, and its potentially damaging effects as NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the lunar surface und...

A dipole magnetic field, created by a ring current, is the most fundamental type of magnetic field that is found both in laboratories and in space. Planetary magnetospheres, such as Jupiter's, effectively confine plasma.

Biden administration says it plans to engage directly with Russia and eventually share more details about what Russia is developing The post White House confirms it has intelligence on Russia's anti-satellite weapon, but...

After months of waiting, NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return container is unlocked -- and the space agency has weighed the total Bennu sample.

The company has a backlog of 100 smallsats for defense and intelligence agencies The post Lockheed Martin ramping up small satellite production appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will discuss recent science research and technology demonstrations aboard the International Space Station at 10:35 a.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 21, with astronauts living and working aboard the...

Fire on a spacecraft can be catastrophic. It can spread quickly in a confined space, and for trapped astronauts, there may be no escape. It’s fading in time now, but Apollo 1, which was to be the first crewed Apollo mi...

Russia's robotic Progress 87 cargo ship will arrive at the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Feb. 17), and you can watch it live.

NASA's iconic "worm" logo and ESA's (European Space Agency) insignia are painted on the Orion spacecraft's crew module adapter in this image from Feb. 1, 2024. The adapter houses electronic equipment for communications, ...

NASA finally has counted up all the asteroid samples returned by a spacecraft last fall--and it's double the rubble return goal.

Canadarm2 berthed a Cygnus cargo spacecraft on the International Space Station on Feb. 1. This is what it looked like, in space and from the orbiting complex.

NASA's Stennis Space Center and Sidus Space, Inc., marked another milestone February 15 for the Center's first-ever in-flight autonomous systems software mission as a payload rider on the Sidus Space LizzieSatTM small sa...

Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where, and when, the first Indo-European languages were spoken, and what kind of lives those first speakers led. A controversial new analytic technique offers a ...

A suite of NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations is on the way to our nearest celestial neighbor for the benefit of humanity. Through this flight to the moon, they will provide insights into the lunar su...

India plans to launch its INSAT-3DS weather and disaster-warning spacecraft to orbit on Saturday morning (Feb. 17), and you can watch it live.

ESA's Euclid mission was launched in July 2023 and has already sent home test images showing that its instruments are ready to go. Now, the space telescope begins mapping huge swaths of the sky, focusing on an area for 7...

NASA is seeking applicants to participate in its next simulated one-year Mars surface mission to help inform the agency's plans for human exploration of the Red Planet. The second of three planned ground-based missions c...

The White House reassured the American public that a Russian nuclear space weapon, currently in development, poses no threat to people or property on Earth.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are strange events. They can last only milliseconds, but during that time can outshine a galaxy. Some FRBs are repeaters, meaning that they can occur more than once from the same location, while ...

For a long time, our understanding of the universe's first galaxies leaned heavily on theory. The light from that age only reached us after traveling for billions of years, and on the way, it was obscured and stretched i...

The future of space exploration includes some rather ambitious plans to send missions farther from Earth than ever before. Beyond the current proposals for building infrastructure in cis-lunar space and sending regular c...

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