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The mission named RRT-1 is the first "Rapid Response Trailblazer" launch designed to demonstrate U.S. capabilities to rapidly deploy national security satellites The post SpaceX launches U.S. Space Force 'rapid response'...

Learn how the Gorgonopsian fossil was found in Mallorca, dating back 270 million years, and was discovered far from other places the saber-toothed animal prowled.

Microgravity is known to alter the muscles, bones, the immune system and cognition, but little is known about its specific impact on the brain. To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity, Scripps Research scient...

2024 intro: As NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley enters its 85th year since its founding, join us as we take a look back at some of our highlights of science, engineering, research, and innovatio...

Even if you knew nothing about astronomy, you’d understand that exploding stars are forceful and consequential events. How could they not be? Supernovae play a pivotal role in the Universe with their energetic, destruc...

NASA leadership participated in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's Microgravity Science Summit (OSTP) on Dec.16 focused on sharing information with leaders across the U.S. federal government about ...

Submarines are emerging as a unique research platform to study human adaption to extreme environments--from ocean depths to outer space.

It seems that we are completely alone in the universe. But simple reasoning suggests that there should be an abundance of alien civilizations. Maybe they're all out there, but they are keeping their distance. Welcome to ...

Quantum trickery is improving the resolution of X-ray images while reducing the radiation dose, say scientists.

Data from the U.S.-European Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission gives researchers a detailed look at lakes and reservoirs in a U.S. watershed. The Ohio River Basin stretches from Pennsylvania to Illinois and conta...

The Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP) enables safe, sustainable, and efficient aviation transportation operations to benefit the flying public and ensure the global competitiveness of the U.S. aviation indust...

NASA will provide live coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 19. NASA's live coverage begins at 9:45 a.m. EST, Thursday on NASA+. Learn how ...

Since antiquity, wreaths have symbolized the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. It is fitting then that one of the best places for astronomers to learn more about the stellar lifecycle resembles a giant holiday wreath it...

A new trailer for Obsidian Entertainment's "The Outer Worlds 2" was released at TGA 2024

NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, is celebrating 85 years of cutting-edge research and development in space, life sciences, supercomputing, aeronautics, and more for the benefit of humanity. Ame...

The universe of U.S. postage stamps featuring James Webb Space Telescope imagery is set to expand again in 2025. The U.S. Postal Service revealed its Priority Mail and Express flat rate stamps.

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

Eutelsat has ordered 100 broadband satellites from Airbus Defence and Space to start replenishing its OneWeb low Earth orbit constellation in a few years. The post Eutelsat orders 100 LEO satellites to replenish OneWeb c...

Jumping Jupiter! The results are in, storm chasers! Thanks to your help over the last two years, the Jovian Vortex Hunter project has published a catalog of 7,222 vortices, which you can download. Each vortex is an enorm...

A new trailer for "Edge of Space," a short film about a daring X-15 pilot flying the rocket-powered experimental plane higher than any other piloted winged vehicle other than the space shuttle.

When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true. But according to an idea doing the rounds on social media, that may not be the case:

After taking the first images of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space.