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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 2005. It's not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself, but it is a peculiarity when compared to its surroundings. NGC 2005 is located...

The spacecraft has resumed gathering information about interstellar space. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is conducting normal science operations for the first time following a technical issue that arose in November 2023. T...

Will future humans use warp drives to explore the cosmos? We’re in no position to eliminate the possibility. But if our distant descendants ever do, it won’t involve dilithium crystals, and Scottish accents will have...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just increased the number of known distant supernovae by tenfold. This rapid expansion of astronomers' catalog of supernovae is extremely valuable, not least because it improves ...

Eight former SpaceX employees are suing the company and its founder and CEO, Elon Musk, alleging sexual harassment and wrongful termination.

In 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars. For the next three years, this astrobiology mission collected soil and rock samples from the crater floor for eventual return to Earth. The analys...

Blue Origin scores first major national security launch deal The post Blue Origin, SpaceX, ULA win $5.6 billion in Pentagon launch contracts appeared first on SpaceNews.

Over 1,000 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched high-powered, amateur rockets on April 13, just north of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the agency's annual Studen...

NASA successfully transitioned operations for the agency's Hubble Space Telescope to an alternate operating mode that uses one gyro, returning the spacecraft to daily science operations Friday. The telescope and its inst...

A SpaceX rocket suffered a last-second abort during the attempted launch of 22 Starlink internet satellites from Florida on Friday (June 14).

Following a technical error in November 2023, NASA's deep-space explorer has resumed full science operations.

Ovzon's first fully owned satellite has reached its geostationary position after a five-month journey in space and passed initial health checks, the Swedish broadband operator announced. The post Ovzon's first broadband ...

Strangely, the Star Trek: Discovery ship's far-future fate was revealed in 2018 'Short Trek' episode 'Calypso'.

NASA will host a virtual media briefing at 3:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 20, to discuss a new summary of a recent tabletop exercise to simulate national and international responses to a hypothetical asteroid impact threa...

Astronomers using the CHIME telescope are looking at strange, one-off cosmic explosions with a new angle. This could bring us closer to solving the lingering mystery of fast radio bursts.

This summer between June 17 and July 2, NASA will fly aircraft over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California to collect data on air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.   The campaign supports the ...

New findings show the black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy had a late growth spurt.

More than 50 student and faculty teams are sending experiments into space as part of NASA's RockOn and RockSat-C student flight programs. The annual student mission, "RockOn," is scheduled to launch from Wallops Island, ...

The San José, a Spanish galleon carrying valuable treasure, has been underwater since 1708, when a naval battle led to its sinking off the coast of Colombia. Now, an effort to recover and preserve the ship's artifacts h...

Introduction The ninth Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Radiometer [NISTAR] Science Team Meeting (STM) was held ...

While NASA has long hoped for extractable water ice on the lunar surface, making use of the resource may be harder than expected. The post Moon ice in the Artemis era: what we still don't know appeared first on SpaceNews...

NASA's LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged China's Chang’e 6 sample return spacecraft on the far side of the Moon on June 7. Chang’e 6 landed on June 1, and when LRO passed over the landing site almost a week l...