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NASA will provide live coverage of the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 return to Earth from the International Space Station, beginning with Dragon spacecraft hatch closure preparations at 10:45 p.m. EDT Monday, March 17. NASA and...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will head back to Earth on Tuesday (March 18) after an unexpectedly long and eventful space mission, and you can watch their homecoming live.

Learn about the 128 newly discovered moons of Saturn, believed to be the remnants of collisions that occurred early in the planet's history.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) scares many people as neural networks, modeled after the human brain, are so complex that even experts do not understand them. However, the risk to society of applying opaque algor...

Learn how a mission that started with Boeing's Starliner will conclude with SpaceX's Dragon, bringing home Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.

SES has outlined plans for a more streamlined board of directors, but one of the satellite operator's biggest shareholders says the changes don't go far enough amid mounting competition in the space industry. The post SE...

A major milestone with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been reached with the installation of the telescope's enormous eye -- the world's largest digital camera.

Exploration of the outer solar system may be getting a boost from the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO). When this gigantic telescope opens its eye later in 2025, it begins a decade-long survey of the ever-changing sky. As pa...

Helium-3 (He-3) on the Moon's surface has drawn attention for decades. In 1939, a paper first noted the presence of Helium-3 on the Moon. Still, it really came into the collective consciousness of space resource enthusia...

Even tipped over onto its side, the Odysseus Lunar Lander was able to do some science. Though a broken leg means it's doomed to spend eternity in an awkward position, its solar panels were able to gather some energy. Eno...

When Beetlejuice goes off, it's going to be the show of a lifetime. But it's not going to hurt us.

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different spectroscopic profile than Psyche, for example. So it might come as no surprise that another of the m...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander went dark in the lunar night on Sunday (March 16) as expected, bringing an end to its historic mission.

RESTON, VA, MARCH 11, 2025 - Reliant Space is proud to announce its critical role in supporting Firefly Aerospace's control room operations for its historic Blue Ghost Mission 1, which […] The post Reliant Space Suppor...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like Hubble and James Webb, don't even touch that bandwidth. And Chandra, the most capable space-bas...

Solar power satellite (SPS) advocates have been dreaming of using space resources to build massive constructions for decades. In-space resource utilization (ISRU) advocates would love to oblige them, but so far, there ha...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas periodically falls into the orbit of these bottomless pits, switching the black hole into active galacti...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were barely known outside space circles when they strapped in for what was supposed to be a quick test flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule last June. Nine months later, they've captured t...

After a long wait and a bunch of disappointing straight-to-DVD sequels, Starship Troopers is still trying to live forever with a theatrical reboot now in development.

The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera mission […] The post Innovative Dutch Technology C...

LOS GATOS, California - Cambrian Works announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a Direct-to-Phase II contract in the amount of $1,779,778.57 focused on Alternate Position Navigation and Time […] The post Cambrian W...

Following its arrival at Pariacabo harbor in Kourou, French Guiana, ESA's Biomass satellite has been rolled out of its shipment container, which kept it protected throughout its two-week voyage from France across the Atl...