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SpaceX called off today's (March 3) planned Starship Flight 8 launch after several issues with the vehicle cropped up during the countdown.

Learn about NASA's SPHEREx mission, which will launch on March 4, 2025 to study the universe's early history and search the Milky Way for signs of water.

If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks of gas and dust, swirling around newly formed stars across the Milky Way. Known as planet-forming disks, they ...

The Science Activation Program's NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC) is working alongside the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) to launch the 2025 Aviation Weather Mission. The mission will engage cadets (students ag...

NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency's Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission, which aims to understand why, when, and where tropical c...

Chris Wade is a visiting vehicle integration manager for SpaceX vehicles in the International Space Station Transportation Integration Office. He plays a key role in ensuring that all vehicle requirements are on track to...

Japanese microgravity services startup ElevationSpace has become the first customer in Asia for Germany's Isar Aerospace, which now only needs a launch license to debut its two-stage Spectrum rocket after clearing tests....

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will return to Earth this month after an unexpectedly long stay aboard the International Space Station --one that has become politically charged here on Earth.

A NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-supported research and development team is making it easier for farmers and ranchers to manage their water resources. The team, called OpenET, created the Farm and Ranch Managemen...

Carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6. The company's Nova-C lunar lander is slated to l...

East Aurora, NY (Mar. 4, 2025) - Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B), a worldwide designer, manufacturer, and integrator of precision motion control components and systems, will be presenting its […] The post Moog to Sha...

by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific What Are Messier Objects? During the 18th century, astronomer and comet hunter Charles Messier wanted to distinguish the 'faint fuzzies' he observed from any poten...

NASA's two stuck astronauts are just a few weeks away from finally returning to Earth after nine months in space.

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet.

On March 2, 1995, space shuttle Endeavour launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its eighth trip into space, on the STS-67 Astro-2 mission. The crew included Commander Stephen Oswald, Pilot William Grego...

The shadow of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander can be seen in this photo from the Moon, taken after landing on March 2, 2025. The lander safely delivered a suite of 10 NASA science and technology instruments; ...

Every few days now, a giant rocket blasts a fiery trail through the atmosphere, lofting satellites into orbit, carrying out space missions or performing other tasks. Since 2017, both the number of launches and the size o...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show "3 Body Problem." There's...

The Japanese company ispace is targeting June 5 for the touchdown of its Resilience moon lander, which launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15.

By sending nanoemulsion formulations on a space flight, scientists are investigating whether chitosan--a material derived from shrimp and widely used to control the release of medications--performs well in controlling me...

This palm-sized device offers projection of the Northern Hemisphere's constellations for enjoyment and learning.

In this episode of Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow speaks with Tess Hatch, Managing Partner, Stifel Venture Banking. The post The evolving landscape of space investment with Tess...