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HELSINKI -- China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt comet. The Tianwen-2 spacecraft […] The post China to launch Tianwen-2...

Find out where to catch the Milky Way's appearance in the night sky as it becomes more visible with the 2025 summer approaching.

The FAA has greenlit license modifications ahead of Flight 9 of SpaceX's Starship but has not yet approved the launch itself.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard announces "biggest shift in collection priorities in ODNI history" with focus on border security The post Gabbard signals shift in U.S. intelligence collection priorities appeared first on SpaceNews.

The presence of water-ice in the debris disk around a young star could have helped facilitate the growth and development of exoplanets.

Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Today we came into another strange and interesting workspace (see image above) that ...

When the JWST came to life and began observations, one of its first jobs was to gaze back in time at the early universe. The Assembly of Galaxies is one of the space telescope's four main science themes, and when it obse...

It was big news years ago when Mars orbiters found streaks of what appeared to be water running down Martian cliffs and crater walls. Scientists worked hard to figure out what they were. Some proposed that they were seas...

Rocket launches are amazing spectacles, but close-up viewers know to bring a set of earplugs or earmuffs to protect their hearing. However, the boom of a launch isn't reserved for those who sign up to watch it--it can al...

California stargazers will soon be able to witness a dazzling celestial sight composed of billions of stars.

Billions of years ago, water flowed on the surface of Mars. But scientists have an incomplete picture of how the red planet's water cycle worked.

Scientists expect the new area of interest on the lower slope of Jezero Crater's rim to offer up some of the oldest rocks on the Red Planet. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is exploring a new region of interest the team i...

Scientists have developed a new computer model to explore the the interstellar medium, in turn generating stunning images that resemble abstract works of art.

Tracking exoplanets via orbital mechanics isn't easy. Plenty of variables could affect how a planet moves around its star, and determining which ones affect any given exoplanet requires a lot of data and a lot of modelin...

Extreme solar storms are a relatively rare event. However, as more and more of our critical infrastructure moves into space, they will begin to have more and more of an impact on our daily lives, rather than just providi...

The Chinese company Galactic Energy sent four satellites into orbit today (May 19) on the fifth sea launch of its Ceres-1 solid rocket.

SatVu's HotSat satellites use thermal cameras to detect infrared radiation emitted by objects on Earth. The post SatVu's thermal imaging satellite winning over customers despite early setback appeared first on SpaceNews.

On April 14, 2025, Blue Origin launched six women--Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguy ...n, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn and Lauren Sánchez--on a suborbital journey to the edge of space.

Scientists are urging NASA to act quickly on concepts for repurposing a pair of NASA smallsats to visit the asteroid Apophis ahead of an Earth flyby. The post Scientists urge NASA to act on Apophis mission concept appear...

This artist’s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in sys...

A new study reveals fresh signs of geological activity on Venus -- clues that the planet's mysterious surface is still changing today.

NASA's prototype for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) is seen lit in white and blue in an award-winning photograph.