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GPS III SV-08, built by Lockheed Martin, is the eighth of 10 GPS III spacecraft. The post SpaceX launches latest GPS III satellite for U.S. military appeared first on SpaceNews.

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant object that existed just 280 billion years after the Big Bang.

ESA is preparing a mission to study and land on asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029. NASA is also looking into a possible Apophis effort but faces funding issues.

Climate scientists are gathering on YouTube for 100 hours to talk about the importance of weather research amid White House funding cuts.

For years, the commercial space sector has been abuzz about the prospect of satellite "super constellations" in Earth orbit. These satellites would provide everything from communications and navigation to broadband inter...

A trio of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Université de Lyon, and Arizona State University, respectively, has found that a likely reason flat pancake-like volcanoes form on Venus' surface is the pla...

The Federal Aviation Administration is demanding an accident investigation into this week's out-of-control Starship flight by SpaceX.

A brilliant meteor streak is captured as it plunges through Earth's atmosphere over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

SpaceX must figure out what happened on Flight 9 of its Starship megarocket, during which the vehicle's second stage made an uncontrolled reentry over the Indian Ocean.

Extracting proteins from organs that survived thousands of years offers fresh insight into ancient health, diet, and daily life.

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of times the mass of the sun),...

Betelgeuse is one of the most well-known stars in the night sky. Located about 640 light years from Earth in the constellation Orion, it's a red supergiant nearing the end of its life, destined to explode as a supernova....

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), launched by NASA in 2005, is orbiting Mars tasked with studying its atmosphere, surface, and subsurface in unprecedented detail. Equipped with a suite of advanced instruments--inclu...

Blue Origin plans to launch its 12th human spaceflight mission on Saturday (May 31), and you can watch the action live here at Space.com.

Written by Abigail Fraeman, Planetary Geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 We came in early this morning and learned that part of Tuesday's plan didn't execute on Mar...

Not all Full Moons are created the same. Follow the familiar Moon long enough, and you'll notice something strange, as it seems to wander across the sky from north to south, from one cycle to the next. Welcome to the fan...

President Donald Trump walks onstage to speak to a crowd at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the launch of NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission on May 30, 2020. The mission was the first crewed launch of the Spa...

As the bright star Regulus and the Beehive Cluster shine close by.

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...

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...

Week in images: 26-30 May 2025 Discover our week through the lens

A newly found object could be a dwarf planet that contradicts the Planet Nine hypothesis.