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SpaceX scrubbed today's (March 12) planned launch of the Crew-10 astronaut mission for NASA due to a ground-system hydraulics issue.

RBC Signals is acquiring 10 six-meter antennas to expand its ground-station network. The post RBC Signals adds 10 antennas to global ground-station network appeared first on SpaceNews.

A student started a chase for the stars after detecting unusual sound waves in archival data.

Learn more about Homo affinis erectus, Western Europe's oldest human ancestor.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has assumed the top job at the startup Relativity Space, which aims to compete with SpaceX and other big launch companies.

CubeSats have a lot of advantages. They are small, inexpensive, and easily reproducible. But those advantages also come with significant disadvantages--they have trouble linking into broader constellations that allow the...

Golden Dome will require more than just deploying sensors and interceptors. The system needs a 'collaborative autonomous network' The post L3Harris taps commercial AI partners for Pentagon's Golden Dome program appeared ...

Did Water or Lava Cause that Channel? The Answer is in How it Bends

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it appears? Or does the star merely look reddish, since its light has had to travel through a cloud o...

Tom Hanks knows there are two things that are going to happen in the future: the moon will become a home to astronauts and the other -- well, it is best to hear it from him.

Written by Denise Buckner, Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Perseverance is hard at work on Mars, overcoming obstacles for scientific exploration! Just a few sols after successfully sealing the c...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed StarBurst, a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument for NASA's StarBurst Multimessenger Pioneer missi...

This nostalgic remake of the 2002 animated classic arrives on May 23, 2025.

A "blood moon" will bathe a large swath of the world in red light overnight Thursday during a rare total lunar eclipse.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Th...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander just beamed home up-close video of its epic March 2 touchdown, showing how its thrusters kicked up plumes of lunar dust.

Throughout history, when pioneers set out across uncharted territory to settle in distant lands, they carried with them only the essentials: tools, seeds and clothing. Anything else would have to come from their new envi...

During a flyby of Mars on Wednesday (March 12), ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.

If Mars Samples Contain Life, Can We Detect It?

If satellite manufacturers don't find ways to compete more effectively, SpaceX could dominate their market. The post Join or die: How satellite manufacturers approach competition with SpaceX appeared first on SpaceNews.

Capri Sun now shares another thing in common with NASA. The juice brand and space agency are already using the same foil for their drink packages. Now both are moon-bound.

Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted shapes. But the web-like, large-scale structure throughout the universe also bends light in a weaker...