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SpaceX will launch 23 Starlink satellites from Florida on Leap Day (Feb. 29) after postponing a Crew-8 astronaut launch for NASA.

If you explore the night sky it won't be long before you realise there is a lot of dust and gas up there. The interstellar dust between the stars accounts for 1% of the mass of the interstellar medium but reflects 30% of...

NASA and the American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation (ACMI) signed an agreement Thursday, Feb. 29 to lease underutilized land in a 240-acre Exploration Park at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. ACMI ...

If future explorers manage to set up communities on Mars, how will they pay their way? What's likely to be the Red Planet's primary export? Will it be Martian deuterium, sent back to Earth for fusion fuel? Raw materials...

China's human spaceflight agency has given names to spacecraft being developed to put astronauts on the moon: Mengzhou ("Dream Vessel") and Lanyue ("Embracing the Moon").

Astronomers have detected a large amount of water vapour in the protoplanetary disk around a young star. There’s at least three times as much water among the dust as there is in all of Earth’s oceans combined. And it...

Clayton P. Turner serves as the Director of NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. His career at NASA Langley has spanned 33 years. His experiences prior to his career with NASA include three years of milit...

Using archival data from the Gemini North telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found. The merging of two supermassive black holes is a phenomenon that has long ...

Bad weather conditions on the launch corridor for a human spaceflight from Kennedy Space Center have prompted a two-day delay, so SpaceX took the opportunity to roll out and try and shoehorn a launch without humans from ...

Decades before any probe dips a toe--and thermometer--into the waters of distant ocean worlds, Cornell astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures based on the thickness of their ice shells, ...

This year will be a "BIG" year for several college and university teams as they research, design, and demonstrate novel inflatable systems configured for future lunar operations through a NASA-sponsored engineering compe...

Ahead of the Artemis 3 lunar landing mission, hardware from SpaceX's Starship was used to simulate dockings with NASA's Orion crew capsule. The two will rendezvous above the moon.

Ritual circles -- like the ancient stone plaza found in Peru's Cajamarca Valley -- date back as far as 5,000 years ago. Researchers are digging into these sites to learn more about the Andean cultures that created them.

Richard "Dick" Truly, who was one of the first astronauts to fly on the space shuttle and later led NASA as administrator, has died at the age of 86.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered how massive stars sculpt planetary systems and stunt planet birth with bombardments of harsh radiation.

How do planetary systems such as the solar system form? To find out, CNRS scientists taking part in an international research team studied a stellar nursery, the Orion Nebula, using the James Webb Space Telescope. By obs...

NASA Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover met with Edwards Air Force Base school-age children at a joint NASA and Air Force Black Employee Resource Group event at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, Califor...

Experience Arrakis like never before in the upcoming sci-fi game Dune: Awakening.

Following a launch on Feb. 15, Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander touched down in the Moon's south polar region on Feb. 22 and has since transmitted valuable scientific data back to Earth. Odysseus took six NASA payload...

MDA CEO Mike Greenley speaks to SpaceNews about the satellite-manufacturing transformation underway at Canada's space hardware specialist. The post Constellation primetime is MDA’s time to prime appeared first on Space...

And that has important implications for their habitability, say astronomers.

Our gleaming Earth, brimming with liquid water and swarming with life, began as all rocky planets do: dust. Somehow, mere dust can become a life-bearing planet given enough time and the right circumstances. But there are...