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China launched 12 satellites early Wednesday for a pioneering on-orbit computing project led by startup ADA Space and Zhejiang Lab. The post China launches first of 2,800 satellites for AI space computing constellation a...

Learn about the strongest solar storm to ever strike Earth, occurring around 14,300 years ago during the last Ice Age.

NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S. college and university student teams to virtually map and explore using a digital twin of NASA’s In...

Sometimes it's fun to look back at old missions that never were. There are more of those than the missions that receive funding and are launched, but many of those were influenced by the ones that were funded that came b...

Following an international signing ceremony Thursday, NASA congratulated Norway on becoming the latest country to join the Artemis Accords, committing to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of space. "...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has successfully completed its initial commissioning following the October 14, 2024, launch. Scheduled to arrive...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars's two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day (sol) of the mission. In the dark before dawn,...

Engineers and technicians from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland crawl under the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft to inspect its underside.

Scientists know that changing tree leaves can indicate when a nearby volcano is becoming more active and might erupt. In a new collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, scientists now believe they can d...

Booz Allen's Chris Bogdan: If the Pentagon tries to develop Golden Dome through its traditional procurement system, it will likely fail The post Space Force officials say it's too early to pin down Golden Dome costs appe...

Tim Miller and Jennifer Yuh Nelson discuss four out-of-this-world animated gems in "Love, Death + Robots" Volume 4, which hits Netflix today.

The Small Magellanic Cloud is one of our closest galactic neighbours. It's a dwarf irregular galaxy about 200,000 light-years away, containing several hundred million stars. New research based on massive stars in the SMC...

To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman -- NASA's first chief astronomer and the namesake for the agency's nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope -- we're baking a birthda...

Paramount+'s flagship 'Star Trek' TV series launches back into our living rooms this summer.

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. In the dark before...

Texas is positioning itself at the forefront of human spaceflight research with a $1 billion proposal to upgrade NASA's Johnson Space Center for missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.

Computational Fluid Dynamics. Those words are enough to strike fear into the heart of many an undergraduate engineer. Modeling how liquids move through a system is mathematically challenging, but in many cases, absolutel...

Join us on June 10 for an exclusive one-on-one conversation with Representative George Whitesides (D-CA), a freshman congressman representing California's 27th District. Whitesides brings years of experience to Capitol H...

The chairs of several NASA analysis and assessment groups (AGs) issued a statement in response to the Trump administration's proposed budget that would gut science programs.

Researchers have discovered that ultra-fast wind surrounding a supermassive black hole is not smooth and continuous as previously assumed, but instead resembles a rapid-fire stream of gas "bullets."

In this week's episode of Space Minds Mamta Patel Nagaraja - NASA's former associate chief scientist-offers an insider's look at how science priorities are set, what gets cut and what the future holds for research aboard...

The international mission collects two-dimensional views of smaller waves and currents that are bringing into focus the ocean's role in supporting life on Earth. Small things matter, at least when it comes to ocean featu...