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Say cheese again, Moon. We're coming in for another close-up. For the second time in less than a year, a NASA technology designed to collect data on the interaction between a Moon lander's rocket plume and the lunar surf...

Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner installed an X-ray detector and jettisoned trash during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024.

Space2Sea Antarctica: A student journalist's expedition to bottom of the world begins

Liechtenstein signed the Artemis Accords Friday during a ceremony hosted by NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy at the agency's headquarters in Washington, becoming the 52nd nation to commit to the responsible explorati...

Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley pre-dates a lot of things. The center existed before NASA - the very space and aeronautics agency it's a critical part of today. And of all the marvelous advancements i...

During the morning of March 20, 2015, a total solar eclipse was visible from parts of Europe, and a partial solar eclipse from northern Africa and northern Asia. NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Arctic Ocean on Mar...

SpaceX plans to launch four of Astranis' "MicroGEO" communications satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast tonight (Dec. 20).

A method for evaluating thermophysical properties of metal alloys Simulation of the solidification of metal alloys, a key step in certain industrial processes, requires reliable data on their thermophysical properties su...

Axiom Space has decided to change up the method for assembling its commercial space station, meaning the outpost could be free-flying as soon as 2028.

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NASA published a new report on Thursday highlighting 17 agency mechanisms that have directly and indirectly supported the development and growth of the U.S. commercial space sector for the benefit of humanity.

NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is preparing today for tomorrow's mission. Supersonic flight, next generation aircraft, advanced air mobility, climate changes, human exploration of space, ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed.  A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge repurposed ...

Instead of a winter wonderland, the Red Planet's northern hemisphere goes through an active--even explosive--spring thaw. While New Year's Eve is around the corner here on Earth, Mars scientists are ahead of the game: Th...

Known as flow formations, these channels could be etched on bodies that would seem inhospitable to liquid because they are exposed to the extreme vacuum conditions of space. Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many cele...

Instead of a winter wonderland, the Red Planet's northern hemisphere goes through an active -- even explosive -- spring thaw. While New Year's Eve is around the corner here on Earth, Mars scientists are ahead of the game...

NASA completed the first maximum afterburner engine run test on its X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Dec. 12. The ground test, conducted at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, marks ...

The Moon may look like barren rock, but it's actually covered in a layer of gravel, pebbles, and dust collectively known as "lunar regolith." During the Apollo Moon missions, astronauts learned firsthand that the fine, p...

Photos of the dormant InSight lander captured from Mars orbit are providing researchers new data on how dust accumulates and evolves over time on the Red Planet.

Learn why scientists still aren't sure why humans are the only primates with very little body hair.

One of the biggest mysteries in science--dark energy--doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the universe is expanding.

A new exact launch date for the Strix satellite launch by Rocket Lab has yet to be announced.