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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft chronicled its moon landing on Sunday morning (March 2), capturing stunning footage of its landmark descent.

Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University Earth planning date: Monday, March 3, 2025 Curiosity continued steady progress through the upper sulfate unit and toward its next major science way...

What is a NASA Spinoff? Well, to answer that question, we're going to have to go all the way back to 1958, back to the legislation that originally created the space agency, NASA. So in that legislation, there’s some fo...

Technology could overcome the challenges in both variation and quantity of cuneiform tablets.

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale said that for commercial firms to gain substantial ground, 'the processes have to be transparent and open and fair.' The post Silicon Valley players aim to follow SpaceX’s disruptive pa...

A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, according to new research. The Ohio State University study's results provide new information ab...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is giving us some incredible views from lunar orbit ahead of its March 6 touchdown attempt.

NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency's SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for 7:48 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, March 12, from Laun...

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1 on Feb. 25 and will shut off Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument...

When astronauts walk on the Moon, they'll serve as the eyes, hands, and boots-on-the-ground interpreters supporting the broader teams of scientists on Earth. NASA is leveraging virtual reality to provide high-fidelity, c...

An X-ray signal that has puzzled scientists for 45 years was the "death knell" of a planet ripped apart by a white dwarf star, data from NASA's Chandra observatory has revealed.

The farthest-flung human-made objects will be able to take their science-gathering even farther, thanks to these energy-conserving measures. Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California tu...

Nova explosions occur in binary star systems in which a white dwarf--the dense remnant of a dead star--continually siphons stellar material from a nearby companion star. As the outer atmosphere of the companion gathers o...

Cryocoolers are essential systems in many space exploration missions to maintain propellants at cryogenic temperatures. Cryogenic recuperators are a key component of these cryocoolers and dictate the performance of the s...

In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous -- and frequently photographed -- supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the...

Binary neutron star mergers occur millions of light-years away from Earth. Interpreting the gravitational waves they produce presents a major challenge for traditional data-analysis methods. These signals correspond to m...

Check out the new trailer for "Jump Ship", the wild co-op sci-fi shooter coming this summer, with a closed beta available right now.

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star. Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, ha...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet--a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system--using a technique known as "transit timing variation."

During NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station, which is scheduled to launch in March, select members of the four-person crew will participate in exercise and medical research aimed at keeping as...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha Centauri, new research has revealed.

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might have looked like in its infancy are lost to time. Taking advantage of a sophisticated adaptive o...