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This past year saw some significant solar activity. This was especially true during the month of May, which saw more than 350 solar storms, solar flares, and geomagnetic storms. This included the strongest solar storm in...

Could Elon Musk and SpaceX be set to drop $1.8 billion for new launch support facilities in Cape Canaveral?

More than a hundred years ago, astronomer Percival Lowell made the case for the existence of canals on Mars designed to redistribute water from the Martian ice caps to its lower, drier latitudes. This necessarily meant t...

A relic galaxy has been uncovered from the early universe, revealing new clues about what our own Milky Way galaxy may have looked like back then.

A NASA-funded commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed four key developmental milestones, marking substantial progress in the station's design and operational readiness. The four milestones are part of a NAS...

Astronomers have spent decades trying to understand how galaxies grow so large. One piece of the puzzle is spheroids, also known as galactic bulges. Spiral galaxies and elliptical galaxies have different morphologies, bu...

As part of the agency's efforts to enable broader use of space, NASA has released its final goals and objectives for low Earth orbit, defining the long-term approach toward advancing microgravity science, technology, and...

NASA's DAVINCI--Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging--mission embodies the spirit of innovation and exploration that its namesake, Leonardo da Vinci, was famous for.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency's retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft's solar panels. In the new image taken Oct. 23 by MRO's Hi...

A recap of HBO/Max's "Dune: Prophecy" Episode 5, "In Truth, Blood"

What does NASA use to send people and equipment into space? Find out the launch vehicles of today.

Earth planning date: Friday, Dec. 13, 2024 Curiosity continues to make great progress over the Mount Sharp bedrock and will spend the weekend investigating the northern base of the "Texoli" butte. The science team back o...

The EU's flagship satellite constellation project officially took off Monday, as the bloc signed a concession contract with a European consortium to develop a secure space-based communication system.

Following a signing ceremony Monday in Thailand's capital city, Bangkok, NASA congratulates Thailand as the 51st nation to commit to the safe and responsible exploration of space that benefits humanity. "Thailand's commi...

SpaceX fired up its next Starship for an engine test before the rocket's next launch to space.

Exomoons are a hot topic in the science community, as none have been confirmed with astronomers finding new and creative ways to identify them. But while astronomers have searched for exomoons orbiting exoplanets around ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday Elaine P. Ho will serve as the next associate administrator of NASA's Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM), where she will lead the agency's efforts to inspire Artemis Generat...

SpaceX's 31st robotic Dragon cargo capsule departed the International Space Station today (Dec. 16) and began the trip back home to Earth.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope just solved a conundrum by proving a controversial finding made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago.

How does the Earth generate its magnetic field? While the basic mechanisms seem to be understood, many details remain unresolved. A team of researchers from the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding at the Helmholtz-...

In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our solar system.

The Event Horizon Telescope, which captured the first image of a black hole, has done it again. The Earth-sized telescope spotted an unexpected explosion from the same supermassive black hole.