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The night sky offers us a variety of spectacles throughout the year, but for the remainder of the month, we have front-row seats to see--not one or two--but seven planets at once.

Blue Origin conducted the tenth crewed flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle Feb. 25, carrying six people, one of whom was at least semi-anonymous. The post Blue Origin launches tenth New Shepard suborbital human ...

Well that's ruined all my lectures! I've spent years talking about space and a go to fact is the red colour of Mars. It's been long believed that it was caused by the same chemical process that creates rust on Earth, a n...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the Milky Way appearing beyond Earth's horizon.

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking Earth in 2032. Now, the European Space Agency says the chance of it striking our planet is down to ...

John Boyd, known to many as Jack and whose career spanned more than seven decades in a multitude of roles across NASA as well as its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), died Feb. 20. He w...

A planet’s history is told in its ancient rock. Earth’s oldest rocks are in the Canadian Shield, Australia’s Jack Hill, the Greenstone Belts in Greenland, and a handful of other locations. These rocks hold powerful...

Sending instruments to the Moon supports a growing lunar economy on and off Earth, and the next flight of NASA science and technology is only days away. NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative is a lun...

Launching no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer will help resolve an enduring mystery: Where is the moon's water? After sharing a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Intuitive Machines' IM-2 laun...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the Milky Way appearing beyond Earth’s horizon. At the time, the International Space Station was...

Learn how a West African excavation shows that early humans lived in multiple ecosystems simultaneously, challenging our understanding of human history.

The small satellite mission will map the Moon to help scientists better understand where its water is, what form it's in, how much is there, and how it changes over time. Launching no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26, NAS...

Among other changes, Vanessa Wyche, who previously led Johnson Space Center, has been named NASA's acting associate administrator.

The Government Accountability Office specifically raises concerns about the technical maturity of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture's laser communications technology. The post Congressional watchdog flags ri...

Observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope helped show that the expected trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4 poses nearly zero risk of impacting Earth in 2032.

A study published in Science Advances sheds new light on the mysterious origins of free-floating planetary-mass objects (PMOs)--celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets.

In March 2025 we have a fine opportunity to view the planet that many astronomy guide books refer to as the most difficult of the naked-eye planets to see: Mercury.

An art display powered by NASA science data topped the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, CA throughout December 2024. Nightly visitors enjoyed "Synchronicity," a 20-minute-long video art piece by Greg Niemeyer, which us...

Targeted therapy uses microbubbles to transport medication directly to its destination.

Australian company Gilmour Space has announced a launch window of no earlier than March 15 for its first-ever orbital launch attempt.

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking Earth in 2032. Now, the European Space Agency says the chance of it striking our planet is down to ...

Media are invited to hear from NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts during a news conference beginning at 11:55 a.m. EST, Tuesday, March 4, from the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and ...