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I have always found Mariana's Trench fascinating, it's like an alien world right on our doorstep. Any visitor to the oceans or seas of our planet will hopefully get to see fish flitting around and whilst they can survive...

Astra Space seemed poised to dominate the smallsat propulsion landscape. Its 2021 acquisition of Apollo Fusion positioned the Northern California company as a favored partner among prime contractors building satellites [...

A new Hubble Telescope image shines a spotlight on a classic spiral galaxy named NGC 3430.

SLS Core Stage Rolls Inside Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage for the Artemis II mission is inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Cente...

On July 19, 2024, NASA officially named Johnson Space Center's building 12 the "Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo." A portrait of Dorothy Vaughan is now the central feature at the entrance of the new...

And the universe must be filled with these reborn white holes, say cosmologists

A new study reveals waves of magnetism within the sun could help explain why the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is hundreds of times hotter than its surface.

NASA Johnson Space Center: ORDEM represents the state of the art in orbital debris models intended for engineering analysis. It is a data-driven model, relying on large quantities of radar, optical, in situ, and laborato...

NASA Ames Research Center: ProgPy is an open-source Python package supporting research and development of prognostics, health management, and predictive maintenance tools. Prognostics is the science of prediction, and th...

The moon may soon be home to frozen samples of Earth's endangered creatures. New research proposes a lunar biorepository to preserve animal skin samples with cells from the world's endangered species.

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center: A thrust chamber assembly (TCA) is the critical and central component in a rocket engine that provides thrust to propel a launch vehicle into space. Since the 1960s, while small improve...

A robotic excavator could build a dry stone wall to act as a blast shield around a launch pad on the moon, a new study suggests.

On July 31, 1964, the Ranger 7 spacecraft took this photo, the first image of the Moon taken by a United States spacecraft. 17 minutes later, it crashed into the Moon on the northern rim of the Sea of Clouds as intended....

In October 2022, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected an extraordinarily powerful Gamma Ray Burst (GRB). It still stands as the Brightest Of All Time (BOAT), and astronomers...

A new photo shows the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope beneath a star-studded sky at sunset, illuminated by a phenomenon known as the zodiacal light.

The Joint Navigation Warfare Center serves as the Department of Defense's center of excellence for navigation warfare The post CACI secures $450 million contract to support U.S. Space Command's navigation warfare center ...

Call for Nominations: 2024 SpaceNews Icon Awards July 31, 2024 - We are thrilled to announce that the nomination process for the 2024 SpaceNews Icon Awards is now open! Established […] The post Honoring the Best in Spa...

An exclusive interview with Michael Humphreys, the VFX supervisor for "A Quiet Place: Day One."

NASA's DART mission--Double Asteroid Redirection Test--was humanity's first real-world planetary defense mission.

Could we support life somewhere else in our universe? Researchers have identified some exoplanets that are promising.

Two planets meet for a super close conjunction, the Perseid meteor shower peaks, and look for the Lagoon Nebula - a stellar nursery in Sagittarius.

Careers at NASA were not on his radar growing up. But Jonas Dino, public engagement specialist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, ended up with his perfect job that involves connecting people ...