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China has sent several small spacecraft into specialized lunar and cislunar orbits to test communications, navigation and orbital dynamics for planned Earth-moon infrastructure. The post China lays foundation for cisluna...

Rapid bursts of energy that last milliseconds but emit as much energy as the sun does in decades are helping astronomers pierce the cosmic fog between galaxies to find the universe's missing matter.

Ursa Major will deliver an upgraded variant of its Hadley engine for use in Stratolaunch's reusable hypersonic vehicle called Talon-A. The post Ursa Major secures $32.9 million contract to supply engines for U.S. militar...

Today, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the Sun's outer atmosphere - the solar corona. The mission's two satellites, able to fly as a single spacecraft thanks to a suite of onboard ...

Learn more about these shimmery, orange and black beads on the moon that researchers describe as "tiny, pristine" time capsules.

Two NASA employees are being  honored as part of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as the Sammies, recognizing outstanding federal employees who are addressing many of our country's greatest cha...

Shortly after astronomers detected asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27th, 2024, they realized it posed no threat to Earth. But it still might impact the Moon in 2032. The impact debris could threaten satellites and trigger ...

Learn more about how mastodons in South America once helped with seed dispersal.

Leaks aboard the International Space Station, as well as on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, delayed Axiom's next private astronaut mission, but the crew now has a target launch date of June 19.

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made an exciting discovery about the early universe. They found dozens of small galaxies that played a huge role in transforming our cosmos from a dark, fogg...

Learn more about these mysterious signals in Antarctica that could be evidence of dark matter.

There's a good reason the Lego Marvel Infinity Gauntlet has been around since 2021: Few sets are as striking as this.

A new chapter in European weather and climate monitoring begins as EUMETSAT's Meteosat-12 satellite, formerly Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Imager 1, takes up the baton from Meteosat-10 to deliver Europe's prime data s...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists.

Part of the closest star-forming region to us, known as the Chamaeleon Complex, has been illuminated by the light of young stars in this artwork by nature captured by the Dark Energy Camera.

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way galaxy--which could help scientists unlock new answers about one of the biggest mysteries in the universe: dark matter, the i...

The Fujifilm X-T50, with its powerful 40.2-MP sensor and excellent creative functionality, is a great beginner camera for astrophotography.

This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled.

The European Space Agency has begun the 55th International Paris Air Show by unveiling the first images from the Proba-3 spacecraft.

An international team of scientists led by astronomers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has produced the most accurate measurement of the gases swirling around young stars and how their mass changes over time. Th...

By Beth Ridgeway  NASA's Student Launch competition celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 4, just north of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, bringing together more than 980 middle school, high...