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A Chinese company will launch sales on Thursday of two tickets for a commercial spaceflight planned for 2027.

"There is every reason to believe China's BeiDou global navigation satellite system has the ability to imitate American GPS signals and those of Europe's Galileo," said Professor Todd Humphreys of […] The post America ...

The Defense Department should step up support of commercial space companies to take advantage of capabilities that might otherwise be lost, a new report concludes. The post Aerospace report recommends greater DOD support...

The company is building two satellites for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) program The post Space Force awards Northrop Grumman $1.8 billion contract extension for missile warning satelli...

The arrival of spacecraft on alien worlds uses a number of different techniques from giant air bags to parachutes and small rockets. The use of rockets can pose a problem to onboard technology though as the dust kicked u...

A Falcon 9 deployed the fourth batch of satellites as the National Reconnaissance Office continues to expands its low Earth orbit architecture The post SpaceX launches more satellites for NRO's proliferated constellation...

Chinese company Deep Blue Aerospace plans to start launching customers to suborbital space and back in 2027, for a price of about $210,000 per seat.

The vice chief of the Space Force said the service is committed to greater transparency with its commercial and international partners The post Challenges facing Space Force and commercial industry: Gen. Guetlein’s can...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - The National Reconnaissance Office will invite companies to propose remote sensing capabilities on an ongoing basis. In the past, the agency responsible for designing, building and […] The post ...

NOAA shared new images taken by the world's first operational space-based coronagraph, CCOR-1, captured during a solar storm outburst.

NASA has selected the University of New Hampshire in Durham to build Solar Wind Plasma Sensors for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Next Pr...

The source of Earth’s water is an enduring mystery that extends to exoplanets and the notion of habitability. In broad terms, Earth’s water was either part of the planet from the beginning of its formation in the sol...

Clouds curling around the full "blue" moon gives the night sky an eerie feel in this image from Aug. 19, 2024. As seen here, a blue moon is not actually blue; the third full moon in a season with four full Moons is calle...

An ultraluminous nova in a nearby galaxy offers a glimpse into the mysterious workings of a rare stellar duo.

Listen to Chief AI Officer Dave Salvagnini represent NASA in a Federal Executive Forum webinar on "Artificial Intelligence Strategies in Government Progress and Best Practices 2024." Featuring Chief AI Officers and techn...

The astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-8 mission will return to Earth early Friday morning (Oct. 25), and you can watch their homecoming live.

Since its ​launch​​​ in 2014, ​the ​Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI) ​system ​has served as NASA's online repository for physical science data. ​Now​​​, the PSI system​ is​ ​live with new...

Scientists have identified one of the largest carbon-based molecules in space yet. It could help us decode the origins of life as we know it.

A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains an abundance of pyrene, a type of large, carbon-containing molecule known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH).

The NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT) set out to activate science in Fairbanks classrooms in early October at the University of Alaska's Museum of the North annual Educators' Night. This free Fall s...

We live in a golden age for learning about the universe. Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest visible scales. Likewise, our most powerful "microscope," the Larg...

More than 100 partners have signed Europe's Zero Debris Charter, a push to help get Earth's space junk problem under control.