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United Launch Alliance is set to launch the second test flight of its Vulcan Centaur rocket on Friday morning (Oct. 4), and you can watch the action live online.

During National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we celebrate the thousands of employees living with disabilities who contribute to NASA's mission. By sharing their stories, we highlight the impact people with disa...

The Commercial and Intellectual Property Law Practice Group is responsible for providing Agency-wide legal advice for negotiating, drafting, and interpreting Space Act Agreements; for partnering arrangements with commerc...

Director Chris Scolese said the NRO and DoD are resolving data integration issues as more satellites are deployed The post NRO expanding satellite network designed to support military operations appeared first on SpaceNe...

In August 2024, the NASA Science Activation program's Planetary Resources and Content Heroes (ReaCH) project held a Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement workshop at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics i...

Two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space were selected by NASA for additional review, the agency announced Thursday. Each proposal team will receive $5 million to condu...

All.Space announced $44 million in funding from venture capitalists Oct. 3 to kickstart the delayed commercial launch of its first multi-orbit flat panel antenna. The post All.Space gets $44 million to debut multi-orbit ...

It'll be about six months before skywatchers are treated to another solar eclipse -- during which only part of the sun will be obscured from view.

NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, center, and Marcos Berrios, right, share a laugh with staff during a White House Hispanic Heritage Month event on Sept. 30, 2024. Rubio broke the record of longest single duration spaceflight...

Bridget Moody has the future in mind every day she works for NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The future success of NASA's Artemis campaign. The future success of commercial companies working ...

Two NASA employees, Howard Chang and Bradley Williams, were named as two of the "20 under 35 of 2024" by the Space and Satellite Professionals International. The award recognizes outstanding young professionals in the sp...

The latest photo of Curiosity's wheels shows new -- but not debilitating -- damage.

A new sungrazing comet with potential may grace our skies in late October. The post Could a New Sungrazer Comet Put on a Show at the End of October? appeared first on Universe Today.

Astronomers want new ways to measure distance in the Universe, working to calculate its rate of expansion. A new image from JWST contains a gravitational lens of a background galaxy. And in that galaxy are three versions...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.

The secrets of Mercury's strange magnetic bubble are gradually being unlocked by the BepiColombo spacecraft as it makes its rapid flybys of the world.

On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption -- and it's heading for Earth.

Read this release in English here. La NASA ofrecerá cobertura en directo, en inglés y en español, de las actividades previas al lanzamiento y del lanzamiento de Europa Clipper, la misión de la agencia para explorar ...

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Europa Clipper, the agency's mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa. NASA is targeting launch at 12:...

SAN FRANCISCO - New Mexico startup mPower Technology announced a contract Oct. 3 with Airbus Netherlands B.V. to provide solar power modules for more than 200 satellites. "It’s one of […] The post mPower wins Airbus ...

A spy plane designed to measure gamma ray bursts detected them frequently and discovered some new forms.

The Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones, culminating in sending a signal to Mars' farthest distance from Earth. NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstrati...