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Teams of NASA researchers put their next-generation technologies to the microgravity test in a series of parabolic flights that aim to advance innovations supporting the agency's space exploration goals.

You'd think a NASA aerospace engineer who spends her days inside a giant dome researching how to make plane engines quieter and spacecraft systems more efficient would have a pretty booked schedule. Still, advocacy and m...

Virgin Galactic shared an awe-inspiring video from the final flight of its VSS Unity space plane.

With the dress rehearsal completed during Apollo 10 in May 1969, only a few weeks remained until Apollo 11, the actual Moon landing mission to meet President Kennedy's goal set in 1961. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armst...

By Jessica Barnett Most people use tools at work, whether it's a hammer, a pencil, or a computer. Very few seek a doctorate degree in creating new tools for the job. Using that degree to make it easier for people around ...

Saturn's largest moon Titan has been known to have rivers and lakes of methane, but a new study has found that their shorelines may be eroded and shaped by wave activity.

Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe was born in a blur of mystery. The new Simons Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert may soon answer the great scientific question of what happened in that tiny fraction of a seco...

NASA joined more than 20 federal agencies in releasing its updated Climate Adaptation Plan Thursday, helping expand the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to make federal operations increasingly resilient to the impac...

The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a striking shot of the fluffy spiral galaxy NGC 1546, showing it can still observe the heavens in its new one-gyroscope mode.

Atmospheric scientists get a little more excited with every rock core NASA's Perseverance Mars rover seals in its titanium sample tubes, which are being gathered for eventual delivery to Earth as part of the Mars Sample ...

Rep. Mike Turner warns of a 'Cuban missile crisis in space' The post House Intelligence chair blasts White House over Russia’s space nuke threat appeared first on SpaceNews.

A new trailer for Amazon MGM Studios' NASA comedy starring Emma Roberts, "Space Cadet"

Teams of NASA researchers put their next-generation technologies to the microgravity test in a series of parabolic flights that aim to advance innovations supporting the agency's space exploration goals.

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble’s eye at an especially photogenic pair o...

Rocket Lab launched its Electron rocket for the 50th time on Thursday (June 20), reaching the milestone in record time.

Media are invited to attend a celebration of space and the Rocket City during NASA in the Park on Saturday, June 22, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CDT at Big Spring Park East in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA and partners will pack the...

Technicians armed with advanced measuring equipment, augmented reality headsets, and QR codes virtually checked the fit of some Roman Space Telescope structures before building or moving them through facilities at NASA's...

Tucked away with each rock and soil sample collected by the agency's Perseverance rover is a potential boon for atmospheric scientists. Atmospheric scientists get a little more excited with every rock core NASA's Perseve...

Astronomer Giovanni Cassini observed Jupiter's 'Permanent Spot' in 1665, but new research suggests it's a different vortex from today's Great Red Spot.

Eight CubeSats that are part of NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative have been integrated into Firefly Aerospace's deployment hardware and are ready to be encapsulated into the payload fairing of Firefly's Alpha rocket. The ...

Solar power is abundant - when the Sun is shining. Wind power is steady - when the wind is blowing. However, creating a steady electricity supply from intermittent power sources is a challenge. NASA was focused on this ...

NASA is very interested in developing a propulsion method to allow spacecraft to go faster. We’ve reported several times on different ideas to support that goal, and most of the more successful have utilized the Sun’...