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Teams at NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and Thales Alenia Space, including astronauts Stan Love and Luca Parmitano, came together in Turin, Italy, this summer for a test run of Gateway, humanity's first space station...

In a legal dispute between Elon Musk and the California Coastal Commission over the number of rockets the billionaire's company can launch from the coast, Gov. Gavin Newsom has sided with Musk, saying over the weekend, "...

Stellar-mass and supermassive black hole coronas have some similarities, and this is great news for black hole physicists.

Between 2011 and 2018, NASA’s Dawn mission conducted extended observations of Ceres and Vesta, the largest bodies in the Main Asteroid Belt. The mission’s purpose was to address questions about the formation of the S...

SpaceX plans to launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast this evening (Oct. 22).

Radically accelerating custom bus satellite digital modeling & production with AI-powered MERCURY™ Los Angeles, CA - October 22nd, 2024 - Proteus Space, a trailblazer in rapid space system design, assembly, […] The p...

A recent SpaceX Starlink launch featured an extra video treat: a view of the Internet satellites being revealed for future Internet service. But Starlink's effects on astronomy still causes concern.

NASA has selected All Native Synergies Company of Winnebego, Nebraska, to provide custodial and refuse collection services at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Custodial and Refuse Col...

Testing is one of the unsung steps in the engineering process. Talk to any product development engineer, and they will tell you how big of a milestone passing “V&V” – or verification and validation – testing is. ...

Most of us know about the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. It’s a scientific fact that’s entered mainstream knowledge, maybe because so many of us shared a fascination with dinosaurs as...

Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS proved to be photogenic as it lit up the early autumn skies of the Northern Hemisphere this month.

This image, released on Feb. 24, 2017, shows Supernova 1987a (center) surrounded by dramatic red clouds of gas and dust within the Large Magellanic Cloud. This supernova, first discovered on Feb. 23, 1987, blazed with th...

NOAA today shared the first images from the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope onboard the new GOES-19 satellite. CCOR-1, the world's first operational, space-based coronagraph, began observing the ...

NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves--ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes an...

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to support the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket for the U.S. Department of Defense during a launch window that runs 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. EDT each day from Wednes...

Stories open up new worlds and spark curiosity in readers of all ages - and NASA is using the power of storytelling to encourage the Artemis Generation to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)....

The supergiant star Betelgeuse may have a companion star that pushes light-blocking dust out of the way, causing the irregular changes observed in the star's brightness.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Silicon Valley startup Aptos Orbital unveiled Oct. 22 an artificial intelligence device for space-based processing, communications and cloud services. "Today's satellites are siloed from modern cl...

For U.S. commanders, a key concern is how to defend critical space infrastructure from adversaries' anti-satellite weapons The post U.S. Space Force faces growing demands in Indo-Pacific amid calls for expansion appeared...

The moon has been bombarded by asteroids and comets for more than 4.32 billion years.

While precision, perseverance, and engineering are necessary skills in building a Moon rocket, Casey Wolfe knows that one of the most important aspects for the job is teamwork. "Engineering is vital, but to get this type...

The elliptical galaxy NGC 1270 lies about 240 million light-years away. But it's not alone. It's part of the Perseus Cluster (Abell 426), the brightest X-ray object in the sky and one of the most massive objects in the u...