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SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early Monday morning (Nov. 25).

There are strange "zebra" patterns coming from the Crab Nebula, and the reason has to do with plasma refraction.

Before the decade is out, as part of the Artemis Program, NASA plans to send astronauts to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo Era. To realize this goal, they have contracted with commercial space industries to ...

Research by astronomers and computer scientists at the University of Hawai i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) could revolutionize our understanding of the sun. The study, part of the "SPIn4D" project, combines cutting-edge ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years later, NASA plans to send another spacecraft to Uranus, this time equipped to see if those icy ...

Understand why Viking settlers of Iceland and the Faroe Islands represent different gene pools, and why this could rewrite history.

NASA and its commercial partners continue to drive innovation in space exploration, achieving milestones that will ultimately benefit human spaceflight and commercial low Earth orbit efforts. These recent achievements fr...

NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission, a rotorcraft lander mission under NASA's New Frontiers Program, designed to explore Saturn's moon Titan. The mission will sample materials an...

Long-duration spaceflight affects some aspects of astronauts' cognitive health, but the observed impairment was not found to be lasting, a new study finds.

NASA's Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter's moon Europa, is already 13 million miles (20 million kilometers) from Earth. Two science instruments have deployed hardware that will remain at atte...

Dark matter made out of axions may have the power to make space-time ring like a bell, but only if it is able to steal energy from black holes, according to new research.

Astronomers often use the Milky Way as a standard for studying how galaxies form and evolve. Since we’re inside it, astronomers can study it in detail with advanced telescopes. By examining it in different wavelengths,...

We may know why Uranus and Neptune lack dipole magnetic fields, at last.

A new mid-infrared image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the Sombrero galaxy, also known as Messier 104 (M104). The signature, glowing core seen in visible-light images does not shine, and inste...

A 16.5-inch-long prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons is reflected in the water's surface during a test in a competition swimming pool in September 2024. Conducted by NASA's Jet Propuls...

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Forrest Melton, Ariel Deutsch, Dan Sirbu, and Chanel Idos. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrep...

Recent findings from the International Space Station address

The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within Cygnus X-3, one of the most studied sources in the X-ray sky.

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A Progress spacecraft at the ISS has a strange smell and unusual droplets after arriving at the ISS, NASA reported. Troubleshooting is ongoing, but its hatch is closed for now.

Space-grown crystals could lead to targeted cancer drugs Researchers used space-grown protein crystals to determine the structure of a helix-loop-helix (HLH) peptide (one with a double helix and connecting loop) in a com...

Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, head of Space Systems Command: 'We're realizing there are true industrial base concerns' The post Pentagon underestimated supply chain fragility, now racing to fix gaps appeared first on SpaceNew...