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The Zwicky Transient Facility has reached an incredible milestone, classifying over 10,000 supernovas, cosmic explosions that mark the death of massive stars.

With a look back at 2024, NASA is celebrating its many innovative and inspiring accomplishments this year including for the first time, landing new science and technology on the Moon with an American company, pushing the...

Most people will think of a dry arid landscape when they think of Mars. When seen from orbit, dry river channels and lake-beds can be seen along with mineral deposits thought to be the created in the presence of liquid w...

NASA has selected Nova Space Solutions, LLC of Anchorage, Alaska, to provide operations, services, maintenance, and infrastructure support for NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and NASA's Micho...

Jupiter will reach opposition on Dec. 7, rising opposite of the sun as seen from Earth. It will also make its closest approach to us, appearing brighter in our sky.

The Artemis moon landings are delayed again due to technical difficulties. This time, the problem is with the Orion spacecraft heat shield. NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced that the new landing dates are in April...

Congratulations to the selected teams and their schools who will participate in the Lunar Autonomy Challenge! 31 teams were selected for the qualifying round, engaging 229 students from colleges and universities in...

A series of plaques stretching through the heart of the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers highlights of the space explorer's career and the Voyager mission he led. Family members, colleagues, and local dignitarie...

Washington, D.C. -- SpaceNews, the leading B2B news organization covering the business, politics and technology of the space industry, announced the winners of the 7th annual SpaceNews Icon Awards on […] The post Space...

Lava encroaches on the Blue Lagoon, a popular tourist destination in Iceland, in this Nov. 24, 2024, Landsat 9 image overlaid with an infrared signal. The infrared signal helps distinguish the lava's heat signature. A vo...

A map of the universe in gravitational waves could reveal "hidden" black holes, supermassive black hole collisions, and the large-scale structure of the cosmos.

Read this story in English here. Tras extensos análisis y pruebas, la NASA ha identificado la causa técnica de la pérdida imprevista de material carbonizado en el escudo térmico de la nave espacial Orion de Artemis I...

NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole - specifically, the disk of material swirling around it, and the shifting plasm...

Week in images: 02-06 December 2024 Discover our week through the lens

Iranian state media claimed one of the country's Simorgh rockets launched its largest payload yet, sending three spacecraft into low-Earth orbit on Dec. 6.

Interstellar Arc will transport visitors on an "epic deep space adventure" when it blasts off next year.

The 2024 SpaceNews Icon Awards honor extraordinary achievements that are driving humanity's exploration of space and shaping the future of the industry. Chosen by the SpaceNews editorial team following an […] The post ...

Sometimes in science you have to step back and take another look at underlying assumptions. Sometimes its necessary when progress stalls. One of the foundational questions of our day concerns the Fermi Paradox, the contr...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission has detected magnetic distortions in solar wind, known as switchbacks. To better understand these phenomena, whose origins remain uncertain, a study was conducted by a network of collabo...

Meet 'Blackbird': A flying taxi that spins and moves in any direction thanks to new propulsion system

Join us on Dec. 18 for an exclusive webinar that explores the critical intersection of commercial space innovation and defense sector transformation. The post Integrating Commercial Space into National Security: Opportun...

A new celestial navigation system designed for drones could make them harder to detect by eliminating the need for GPS signal emissions.