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Boeing executive Mark Nappi had been the face of the company's Starliner program during its beleaguered Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station that ultimately left its crew of two NASA astronauts behind when...

This Hubble image shows a supernova named SN 2022aajn in a distant galaxy about 600 million light-years away with the unwieldy name of WISEA J070815.11+210422.3. However, the obtuse yet scientifically descriptive names a...

It seems everyone is talking about the Moon and everyone wants to get their foot in the door with the renewed passion for lunar exploration. ESA too have jumped into the lunar landing game having just signed a contract w...

The old saying -- "Practice makes perfect!" -- applies to the Moon too. On Tuesday, NASA gave 17 technologies, instruments, and experiments the chance to practice being on the Moon... without actually going there. Instea...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer probe has made it to Florida's Cape Canaveral to prep for its launch to the moon, which could occur as soon as Feb. 26.

Revelations from the past can seem quaint once we’ve been living with them for a generation or two. That’s true of the realization in the past that spawned SETI: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Humanity...

The top Democrat on the House Science Committee is asking NASA for information on how it is complying with executive orders related to diversity measures. The post Top House Science Committee Democrat asks NASA for infor...

Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) to go before it reaches Jupiter's orbit in 2030 to take close-...

The company specializes in iodine-based propulsion systems for small satellites The post French space propulsion firm ThrustMe expands U.S. footprint appeared first on SpaceNews.

Mission Space is preparing to launch a space-weather sensor, a first step in building a constellation. The post Mission Space to launch first sensors for space-weather constellation appeared first on SpaceNews.

Talk amongst yourselves, get on the same page, and work together to get the job done! This "pep talk" roughly describes how new NASA technology works within satellite swarms. This technology, called Distributed Spacecraf...

SpaceX plans to launch two Earth-imaging satellites today (Feb. 4), building out Maxar Technologies' sharp-eyed WorldView Legion constellation.

Burrowing under soil opens up a whole new world, especially when that soil is on other planets. Getting under the top layer of regolith on a world such as Mars could give access to a world still extant with life, whereas...

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b--one of the most massive planets known to orbit a low-mass star. Gaia-4b is also the first planet detecte...

Blue Origin launched its New Shepard suborbital vehicle Feb. 4 on the company's first attempt to simulate lunar gravity in flight. The post Blue Origin launches New Shepard on lunar gravity suborbital flight appeared fir...

An international team of scientists has modeled the formation and evolution of the strongest magnetic fields in the universe.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home.

Aaron Paul and Eiza González star in the new trailer for 'Ash,' an upcoming sci-fi film about astronauts fighting for survival on a hostile planet.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye. The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an "arrow"--a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy--shot through its heart. Astronom...

An interesting fact about Johnson Space Center's Anika Isaac, MS, LPC, LMFT, LCDC, CEAP, NCC, is that there are more letters following her name than there are in it. A licensed professional counselor, marriage and family...

NASA is asking U.S. companies for proposals to move forward with the ice-hunting VIPER moon rover, a $450 million project the agency canceled last summer.