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On July 15, 2024, NASA's logo is turning 65. The iconic symbol, known affectionately as "the meatball," was developed at NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland (now called NASA Glenn). Employee James Modarelli, who st...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spent an unexpected Fourth of July aboard the International Space Station--but it was hardly a patriotic display of engineering prowess.

A NASA asteroid-hunting mission is coming to a close, paving the way for the next generation of planetary defense efforts.

NASA's CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment, or CURIE, is scheduled to launch July 9, 2024, to investigate the unresolved origins of radio waves coming from the sun.

A new computer simulation flies through tangled galaxies and zooms in on a black hole to dissect how these voids feats on surrounding matter.

Japan's space agency is seeking industry proposals for technologies that could contribute to future commercial space stations as the government studies what role it would play in supporting efforts to replace the Interna...

Lt. Gen. Miller: Hundreds of satellites to reshape military operations The post Space Force preparing for the age of proliferated low Earth orbit satellite networks appeared first on SpaceNews.

A DoD review identified the command and launch segment as a primary driver of cost growth. The post Pentagon greenlights $140 billion ICBM program despite cost overruns appeared first on SpaceNews.

The Milky Way is warped, and the alignment of this warp is precessing backwards around the galaxy under the influence of a squashed dark matter halo.

James Webb Space Telescope data suggests the exoplanet LHS 1140 b is a water world in its star's habitable zone that sports a lovely, temperate ocean.

Mandala Space Ventures, a Californian venture studio and incubator, announced July 8 the nine United Kingdom-based startups participating in its UK Space Agency-funded accelerator program this fall. The post Nine venture...

Moving large amounts of regolith is a requirement for any long-term mission to the moon or Mars. But so far, humanity has only sent systems capable of moving small amounts of soil at a time--primarily for sample collecti...

Two high school interns funded by NASA's Neurodiversity Network (N3) presented their work from Summer 2023 at the recent National Space Society (NSS) International Space Development Conference (ISDC-2024), held in Los An...

It seems like every month a new story appears announcing the discovery of thousands of new asteroids. Tracking these small body objects from ground and even space-based telescopes helps follow their overall trajectory. B...

CubeSats are becoming ever more popular, with about 2,400 total launched so far. However, the small size limits their options for fundamental space exploration technologies, including propulsion. They become even more cr...

The strongest hurricane to occur this early in the year makes landfall in Matagorda, Texas, as a Category 1 early Monday (July 8) morning.

Sunken WWII ships have become homes for marine species, posing both ecological benefits and risks. Explore these underwater habitats.

A team of astronomers has identified a temperate exoplanet as a promising super-Earth ice or water world.

NASA's CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment, or CURIE, is scheduled to launch July 9, 2024, to investigate the unresolved origins of radio waves coming from the Sun. Scientists first noticed these radio waves decades ...

Jonathan Frakes will direct a new miniseries adaptation of the "Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime" novels.

Aerospacelab will supply more than 200 battery charge regulators for MDA's new line of satellites The post MDA Space taps Aerospacelab for satellite components appeared first on SpaceNews.

Neutron stars are extreme and mysterious objects that astrophysicists cannot see inside. With a radius of around 12 kilometers, they can have more than twice the mass of the sun. The matter in them is packed up to five t...