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Space weather forecasting doesn't yet command the same resources as Earth weather forecasting, even though the stakes are growing.

Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University Earth planning date: Friday, May 16, 2025 As Curiosity progresses up Mount Sharp, it crosses different terrains, which the team has mapped from orb...

Members of the space exploration community are always coming up with novel ideas to solve problems that they view as holding back humanity's expansion into the cosmos. One such problem that has become more noticeable of ...

On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars.

Large and complex sunspot groups characterize the surface of the dynamic sun during its activity cycle. A new camera system at the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT) at the Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife uses image restora...

Industry officials: Cuts of this magnitude would be a stunning reversal of policy The post Satellite firms brace for potential imagery budget cuts in 2026 appeared first on SpaceNews.

New research has found that lightning, while not very common, can occur on tidally locked exoplanets like our nearest neighbor, Proxima b.

Mars has fascinated us for centuries. Since the invention of the telescope, science fiction writers have mused over its habitability. Its location in the Solar System's habitable zone suggests it could, in theory, suppor...

China has continued an uptick in launch activity with a Long March 7A mission to geosynchronous orbit and sea launch of a Ceres-1 solid rocket. The post China launches classified comms satellite, conducts commercial sea ...

In recent years, humanity has visited several near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), including Ryugu (Hayabusa2) and Didymos (DART). However, we will need more frequent missions to start gathering more helpful information about th...

NASA and its international partners will soon receive scientific research samples and hardware after a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Thursday, May 22, for its return to Earth. Live c...

Washington, D.C. - SpaceNews is pleased to announce the expanded role of longtime commercial space reporter Jason Rainbow, who will now serve as Senior Staff Writer and Business Intelligence Manager. […] The post Jason...

Researchers have provided some new insights about the powerful geomagnetic storm that flared up last Mother's Day, after a big solar storm hit Earth.

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its "aluminum bird" systems testing, verifying how its systems work together, respond to pilot inputs and handle injected failures.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the galaxy was 5.5 billion l...

This is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. Our guest today is Robert Cardillo, president of the Cardillo Group. The post Disrupting the intelligence machine: A conversation with Robert Cardillo appeared first o...

The asteroid poses no threat to the moon or Earth.

ST. LOUIS - Hyperspectral imagery startup Kuva Space will expand its focus on maritime-domain awareness with its second satellite scheduled to launch in June. Kuva has delivered Hyperfield-1B, a 60-kilogram […] The pos...

Four NASA astronauts will participate in a welcome home ceremony at Space Center Houston after recently returning from missions aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wil...

NASA is demonstrating new microgravity fluids technologies to enable advanced "no-moving-parts" plant-watering methods aboard spacecraft. Crop production in microgravity will be important to provide whole food nutrition,...

As the 100th woman to travel to space, Calandrelli isn't just celebrating personal achievement -- she's using her journey to inspire others and push the boundaries of STEM accessibility.

'While we've made some significant progress in the last 12 plus months, there's more work to be done' The post Geospatial intelligence agency urges faster AI deployment appeared first on SpaceNews.