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NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes-themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are having a very public disagreement at the moment, and NASA could get caught in the crosshairs.

Resilience, the second mission by Japanese company ispace, likely crashed attempting a landing on the moon June 5. The post Second ispace lunar lander presumed lost appeared first on SpaceNews.

Written by Henry Manelski, Ph.D. student at Purdue University This week Perseverance continued its gradual descent into the relatively flat terrain outside of Jezero Crater. In this area, the science team expects to find...

A NASA Mars smallsat mission bumped from the first launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn is tentatively set to fly on the second New Glenn later this summer. The post NASA's ESCAPADE could launch on second New Glenn appeared...

Dr. Natasha Schatzman Receives Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Award In May 2025, Dr. Natasha Schatzman, aerospace engineer in the Aeromechanics Office at NASA Ames Research Center, received the inaugural Alex M. Stoll Awa...

Space is hard. There's no doubt about that. It's completely unlike any environment we have ever faced on the Earth.

Sen. Ted Cruz's newly unveiled legislative directives for Senate Republicans' budget reconciliation bill would dedicate almost $10 billion to win the new space race with China.

A new panorama from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows one of the red planet's biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, poking through a canopy of clouds just before dawn.

The Large Hadron Collider has changed particle physics, and now scientists are dreaming up even bigger supercolliders. But humanity can't match the raw particle-colliding power of a supermassive black hole. In a new pape...

The 2001 Odyssey spacecraft captured a first-of-its-kind look at Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth's tallest volcanoes. A new panorama from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows one of the Red Planet's biggest volcanoes, A...

An online tool maps measurements and enables non-experts to understand earthquakes, subsidence, landslides, and other types of land motion. NASA is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Facility in Fairbanks to create ...

These are the best beginner binoculars you can buy in every category, from the best overall and the best for stargazing to the best budget model.

India has granted a key license to Elon Musk's Starlink, bringing the satellite provider a step closer to launching its commercial internet services in the country, a top Indian government official said on Friday.

The solar system's largest and smallest planets will greet one another in the eastern sky.

When it comes to helping NASA scientists better understand the effects of space travel on the human body, fruit flies are the heavyweights of experiments in weightlessness. Because humans and fruit flies share a lot of s...

The Mars Express probe captured a striking new view of a Martian crater that holds clues to the planet's dynamic history spanning billions of years.

Africa is seeking a greater role in the global space economy following the official inauguration of the African Space Agency (AfSA) April 20. The ceremony marked the culmination of a […] The post Africa’s new space a...

The vast, seemingly empty spaces between galaxies are not entirely empty. So what's in these cosmic voids?

Week in images: 02-06 June 2025 Discover our week through the lens

A team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic black hole data sets. Based on the network and data from the Event Horizon Telesc...

Imagine having seamless mobile broadband access anywhere on Earth, from the most remote deserts and oceans to disaster zones, all without the need for cell towers. That's the promise of […] The post The new attack surf...