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Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John Plumb said more studies are needed to assess the potential impact of a nuclear detonation in space The post Lawmaker presses Pentagon official on Russia’s potential ...

NASA has selected 40 undergraduate students for the first year of its Europa ICONS (Inspiring Clipper: Opportunities for Next-generation Scientists) internship program, supporting the agency's Europa Clipper mission. Eur...

The Search for Life in our Solar System leads seekers to strange places. From our Earthbound viewpoint, an ice-covered moon orbiting a gas giant far from the Sun can seem like a strange place to search for life. But unde...

Explore the top 16 places to witness the breathtaking annular 'ring of fire' solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024. Plan an unforgettable eclipse experience with these expert recommendations.

A report by NASA's inspector general has disclosed new details about problems with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield and other issues that delayed its first crewed launch. The post NASA inspector general report highligh...

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-8 mission will move their Dragon capsule to a different port at the ISS on Thursday morning (May 2), and you can watch it live.

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What was once a complementary space architecture is today the central nervous system of joint operations, said Brig. Gen. Robert Hutt, director of plans and programs for the U.S. Space Force. The post Space Force flexes ...

A beautiful nebula in the southern hemisphere with a binary star at it’s center seems to break our standard models of stellar evolution. But new data from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) suggests that there may...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission's asteroid target Dinkinesh. Scientists named it Selam, and have now learned that Selam is a cosmic toddler.

The JWST keeps one-upping itself. In the telescope’s latest act of outdoing itself, it examined a distant exoplanet to map its weather. The forecast? An unending, blistering inferno driven by ceaseless supersonic winds...

Scientists suggest lunar astronauts can stay fit by running sideways within a Wheel of Death.

You’ve seen the Sun, but you’ve never seen the Sun like this. This single frame from a video captured by ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission shows the Sun looking very .... fluffy!  You can see feathery, hair-like structu...

The Maxar-1 mission carried two high-resolution imaging satellites for Maxar Intelligence, the U.S. government's primary provider of commercial electro-optical imagery The post SpaceX launches Maxar's first WorldView Leg...

China's Chang'e 6 sample return mission to the moon's far side is scheduled to launch early Friday morning (May 3), and you can watch the action live.

Before a total solar eclipse crossed North America on April 8, 2024, scientists at Predictive Science Inc. of San Diego aimed to foresee what the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, would look like during totality. The p...

Cells are the fundamental units of life, forming the variety of all living things on Earth as individual cells and multi-cellular organisms. To better understand how cells perform the essential functions of life, scienti...

Two NASA pathfinding missions were recently deployed into low-Earth orbit, where they are demonstrating novel technologies for observing atmospheric gases, measuring freshwater, and even detecting signs of potential volc...

By Jessica Barnett  After months of preparation and years since its last flight, the upgraded High Resolution Coronal Imager Flare mission - Hi-C Flare, for short - took to the skies for a never-before-seen view of a so...

For satellite operators, AI’s potential benefits are impossible to ignore. As Earth observation and communications constellations expand, AI tools promise to streamline operations, reduce on-orbit collisions and speed ...

This Dec. 21, 2002, artist's concept of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer imagines what the space telescope would look like during its mission. Launched April 28, 2003, it studied the shape, brightness, size and distance ...

Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Today's planning was a little out of the ordinary. Not in terms of the plan itself, Curiosity's team built an exciting plan utilizing much of its science toolkit. Today's plan ...