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NASA's Juno probe continues to give us more insight into Jupiter and the giant planet's moons, including Io, the most volcanically active object in the solar system.

It's a packed week, with Earth Day, Arbor Day, The City Nature Challenge and more!

Under NASA's Artemis campaign, the agency and its partners will send large pieces of equipment to the lunar surface to enable long-term scientific exploration of the Moon for the benefit of all. NASA's human landing syst...

NASA and Slovenia affirmed their cooperation in future space endeavors on Friday as Slovenia became the 39th country to sign the Artemis Accords. The signing certified Slovenia's commitment to pursue safe and sustainable...

Humans aren't the only mammals working to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Western United States. People there are also enlisting the aid of nature's most prolific engineers - beavers. Using NASA-provided gr...

In this image released on March 9, 2024, the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gives us a more detailed view of a well-studied but still mysterious region, NGC 604. The most noticeable fe...

Scientists at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and their international collaborators have recently developed a new method for efficiently extracting information from galax...

NASA's history-making Ingenuity helicopter covered a lot of ground on Mars over the past three years, as a new video shows.

Curiosity continues to make progress along the margin of upper Gediz Vallis ridge, investigating the broken bedrock in our workspace and acquiring images of the ridge deposit as the rover drives south.

Two Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, April 17, 2024, during an M-class solar flare for NASA's sounding rocket solar flare campaign.

The mission aims to assist the later removal of spunk junk, an issue that threatens the sustainable use of orbital space above the Earth.

NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have established a research transition team to guide the development of wildland fire technology.  Wildland fires are occurring more frequently and at a larger scale th...

This NASA space-based observatory video shows 'Devil Comet' 12P/Pons-Brooks passing past bright Jupiter while the sun explodes in the distance.

Japan will test solar power transmission from space in 2025 with a miniature space-based photoelectric plant that will wirelessly transmit energy from low Earth orbit to Earth.

This project can help us learn about the history of the Universe.

A big budget boost for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) sends a loud, clear message. The post Congress pushes DoD to deliver appeared first on SpaceNews.

Untangling what happened in our Solar System tens or hundreds of millions of years ago is challenging. Millions of objects of wildly different masses interacted for billions of years, seeking natural stability. But its h...

NASA invites you -- and everyone else on the planet -- to take part in a worldwide celebration of Earth Day with the agency’s #GlobalSelfie event. While NASA satellites constantly look at Earth from space, on Earth Day...

A pair of small experimental satellites have begun tests related to future lunar communication and navigation services for China's moon ambitions.

Orbex, a company based in the United Kingdom developing a small launch vehicle, has raised $20.8 million to "ramp up" work on its long-delayed rocket. The post Orbex raises $20.8 million Series C extension appeared first...

NASA has selected six new airborne missions that include domestic and international studies of fire-induced clouds, Arctic coastal change, air quality, landslide hazards, shrinking glaciers, and emissions from agricultur...

The U.S. could lose its decades-old leadership in space exploration and technology to China.