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A California man has been sentenced to jail for flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base and photographing the installation.

NASA's new infrared telescope named "SPHEREx" has officially opened its eyes to the cosmos.

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, has revealed ejections from still-forming protostars and insigh...

Learn more about the songs of the stars, which tell of the transformation of our galaxy over time.

From agriculture and law enforcement to entertainment and disaster response, industries are increasingly turning to drones for help, but the growing volume of these aircraft will require trusted safety management systems...

Amazon's first big batch of Project Kuiper broadband satellites will lift off a week from now, if all goes according to plan.

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main types of black hole; stellar mass and supermassive black holes, and they differ in size, formation...

The investment, which marks Washington Harbour's first in Turion Space, was part of a broader funding round The post Washington Harbour Partners invests in startup Turion Space appeared first on SpaceNews.

As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft, research, testing, and development at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley has played a critical role. Recently, Ames wel...

Understanding the differences between Neanderthal and modern human faces sheds light on our own evolution.

As the cult classic sci-fi monster movie turns 25, we look at why it eclipses everything Vin Diesel's antihero has done since.

A launch date is set for the first batch of what will be thousands of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper as the company looks to play catch-up with SpaceX and its Starlink internet constellation.

What are the dangers of going to space? For human spaceflight, the first thing I think about is the astronauts actually strapping themselves to a rocket. And if that isn’t dangerous enough, once they launch and they’...

ULA is set to loft the first 27 satellites of the more than 3,200 planned for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation April 9, roughly a year behind schedule as the company races to meet deployment deadlines. The...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft to the International Space Station, accompanied by cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, where they will join the Expedition 72/...

NASA's Perseverance Rover is an ambitious mission. Along with its day-to-day exploration, the rover carried an experimental rotorcraft and is also caching samples for eventual return to Earth. But there's another aspect ...

"All together, we have a better sense of what this building-sized asteroid is like."

This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center; this star may have destroyed a planet. This has never been seen before--and could explain a m...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its watchful eye toward asteroid 2024 YR4, which we now know poses no significant threat to Earth in 2032 and beyond.

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they were a multicellular organism. The organisms in the study are the only bacteria known to do this i...

The European Space Agency has picked Airbus to build the landing platform for the life-hunting ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch in 2028.

Disney has revealed its third animated Star Wars anthology series, which takes us deeper into the galaxy's darkest corners through the eyes of two infamous bounty hunters.