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Teams responsible for preparing and launching Artemis II at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set to begin a series of integrated tests to get ready for the mission. With the upper stage of the agency's SLS (Spa...

The satellites are scheduled for delivery by 2031. The post Space Force orders two more GPS IIIF satellites for $509.7 million appeared first on SpaceNews.

Learn more about the earliest evidence of birds breeding and nesting in the Arctic, a behavior that millions of birds continue to this day.

China carried out its ninth launch of the month early Thursday, sending the secretive Shijian-26 spacecraft into orbit. The post China launches classified Shijan-26 satellite with Long March 4B rocket appeared first on S...

Exoplanet science is shifting from finding any detectable exoplanets we can to searching for those in their stars' habitable zones. NASA's proposed Habitable World Observatory and other similar efforts are focused on the...

Frameworks are a critical, if underappreciated, component of any space exploration mission. They can range from the overall mission architecture, capturing scientific and technical goals, to the structure of messages sen...

Creators of the original antigravity treadmill continue to advance technology with new company.

Learn more about the Mongolian Arc, a section of medieval wall that is changing how we understand the ancient populations of Eurasia.

Nearly all of NASA's ninth class of astronaut candidates, along with two European trainees, poses for photos in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on July 7, 1980...

Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, particularly for future cr...

A small team of planetary scientists, astrophysicists and space flight researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in France has made the first direct detection of atmospheric sputtering on Mars.

SpaceX is targeting a whopping 170 orbital liftoffs in 2025, which would shatter the record the company set just last year.

Northrop Grumman is investing $50 million into Firefly Aerospace to further development of a medium-lift launch vehicle with a new name. The post Northrop invests $50 million into Firefly for launch vehicle development a...

At the core of Beijing's campaign are advanced data centers, on Earth and in orbit The post New report details China's push to dominate artificial intelligence appeared first on SpaceNews.

Lunar maria or 'seas' formed when lava flooded impact basins billions of years ago.

In-situ resource utilization (ISRU) is commonly cited as being a critical step towards a sustainable human presence in space, especially on the Moon. Just how crucial it is, and how much its by-products will affect other...

We step inside the TARDIS to rank every Doctor so far, from William Hartnell through to Ncuti Gatwa.

Join us on May 6 for a timely discussion on those challenging Starlink and the push for multi-orbit and multi-operator solutions. The post Webinar: Geospatial Intelligence – New Data to Solutions appeared first on Spac...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi spoke with students from the International Space Station on May 20, 2025, in a behind-the-camera view.

NASA's Perseverance rover has marked a milestone with a spectacular new selfie, and a surprise visitor.

Just because we can find ozone in the atmosphere of other planets doesn't mean there's life. Ozone is a sign of life on Earth, but its detection on Venus shows that it can also be produced abiotically. This indicates tha...

After a decade of searching, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere Volatile Evolution) mission has, for the first time, reported a direct observation of an elusive atmospheric escape process called sputtering that could help ans...