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The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 44 individual stars in a gorgeous portrait of a distant galaxy.

Satellite operator AST SpaceMobile hopes to turbocharge its proposed direct-to-smartphone services with L-band spectrum from Ligado Networks, which filed for bankruptcy after GPS interference concerns derailed its terres...

Months after deciding that its previous plan for bringing samples back from Mars wasn’t going to work, NASA says it’s working out the details for two new sample return scenarios, with the aim of bringing 30 titanium ...

NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth but won't pick a winner for another 18 months or so.

The New York-based artist team Geraluz, left, and WERC, right, pose in front of their mural "To the Moon, and Back" with their son Amaru, 5. The community mural was created as part of the reimagined NASA Art Program, whi...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11 billion.

The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new research.

NASA will spend the next year and a half studying two different approaches for returning samples from Mars. The post NASA to study two alternative architectures for Mars Sample Return appeared first on SpaceNews.

Einstein may have been troubled enough by entanglement to call it "spooky action at a distance" but scientists have discovered it operates at small scales between quarks and gluons in protons.

On November 14, 2024, NASA eClips team member, Betsy McAllister, was recognized with the prestigious Virginia Association of Science Teachers (VAST) Science Educator Specialist Award at the 2024 VAST Annual Professional ...

In December 2024, five CubeSats deployed into Earth's orbit from the International Space Station. Among them was LignoSat, a wooden satellite from JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) that investigates the use of...

Sierra Space and NASA's Johnson Space Center are conducting simulations to prepare for the Dream Chaser space plane's first flight to the International Space Station.

Understanding why storms sometimes engulf the entire planet within a layer of grit could prove crucial to future missions.

SpaceX and NASA are targeting Jan. 15 for the launch of the private Blue Ghost moon lander from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA Science at AAS Hyperwall Schedule, January 12-16, 2025 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #505) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. SUNDAY, JANUARY 12 7:00 - 7:15 PM NASA Cosmi...

In the next few decades, crewed missions to the moon and Mars will likely become frequent. One of the main challenges faced by these future missions will be the need to protect astronauts from the intense radiation of ou...

NASA's 2024 AI Use Case inventory highlights the agency's commitment to integrating artificial intelligence in its space missions and operations. The agency's updated inventory consists of active AI use cases, ranging fr...

NASA sponsored Entrepreneurs Challenge events in 2020, 2021, and 2023 to identify innovative ideas and technologies from small business start-ups with the potential to advance the agency's science goals. To help leverage...

Movies are usually shot on 35mm, but we're feeling the 380mm barrage for this one. For Super Earth!

NASA recently began a series of flight tests with partners to answer an important aviation question: What will it take to integrate remotely piloted or autonomous planes carrying large packages and cargo safely into the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time should spot many new "dark comets" after coming online in July 2025.

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands--driven by the mysterious "dark energy"--locally, galaxies cluster through gravitational interactions, forming the cosmic web held together by d...