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SpaceX launch 27 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on the 500th Falcon 9 rocket launch in the company's history.

Our Red Planet explorers may encounter a peculiar threat.

Based in Marietta, Georgia, Atomic-6 makes solar arrays that are designed to fold and unfold The post Space Force to fund development of Atomic-6 solar power for satellites appeared first on SpaceNews.

Learn about new observations that reveal an exoplanet is destroying itself by cuddling up to its host star, in an astronomical first.

NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Thursday, July 10, from the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. First is an over...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy--yet, it remains a challenge since stellar ages can't be ascertained through observation alone. So, astronomers at the University of ...

"...are we potentially the last generation that will see the night's sky in its entirety?"

Beginning in the 1960s, satellite instruments have measured Earth's reflected broadband shortwave radiation and emitted longwave radiation. These measurements have been used to estimate Earth's "energy balance," defined ...

NASA has awarded a contract to MacLean Engineering & Applied Technologies, LLC of Houston to provide simulation and advanced software services to the agency. The Simulation and Advanced Software Services II (SASS II) con...

Structured as Luno A and Luno B, the five-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts carry a combined ceiling of $490 million The post National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announces new contract aw...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now settled into low-Earth orbit, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

The space telescope spied three young stars in the nebula.

An object from outside the solar system has been spotted hurtling toward the sun, which if confirmed would be the third visitor from the stars ever detected, the European Space Agency said Wednesday.

In science-fiction stories, companies often mine the moon or asteroids. While this may seem far-fetched, this idea is edging closer to becoming reality.

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and potentially marking the birth of a new ocean, a new study reports.

If humans are ever going to live beyond Earth, they'll need to construct habitats. But transporting enough industrial material to create livable spaces would be incredibly challenging and expensive. Researchers at the Ha...

Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a curious new object started flashing across the message boards.

A.M./P.M. Planet Watching, Plus the Eagle Constellation Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look for Aquila the eagle. Skywatching Highli...

When black holes need a place to crash, they prefer a nice, bright quasar.

A DARPA official said the agency canceled a space nuclear propulsion project it was jointly developing with NASA in part because the effort was overtaken by lower launch costs. The post DARPA says decreasing launch costs...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and data on the system ever taken. This included Saturn's largest moon, Titan, which the probe exam...

Since July 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and analyze otherwise invisible infrared light, Webb is making observations that we...