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"It's a discovery that underlines things may be different from what they appear to us at first glance."

The FAA has closed its investigation into SpaceX's Starship failure this spring and given the green light for Starship Flight Test 10 to proceed this weekend.

Major Gen. Paul Tedman has been the commander of United Kingdom Space Command since 2024. Recently, he made a stark observation: if war breaks out in Europe, it is highly likely that the first assault on Britain will tak...

In a recent paper, researchers followed the trajectories of 1I/Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/ATLAS - three installer objects that have entered the Solar System in the past decade - to constrain their possible origin. Thro...

Exoplanets with and without a magnetic field are predicted to form, behave, and evolve very differently. In order to understand the exoplanet population, and to make progress understanding habitability, astronomers need ...

Compact, reflective, easy to manufacture mirrors are a critical component for advancing astronomical technology in space. Mirrors are a key component in most telescopes, though they are notoriously hard to manufacture wi...

Portugal's space ambitions grow as Atlantic Spaceport Consortium secures approval to operate the nation's first launch center in the mid-Atlantic

If you asked someone what they expected to see during a visit to NASAs Johnson Space Center, they would probably list things like astronauts, engineers, and maybe a spacecraft or two. It might be a surprise to learn you ...

NASA and SpaceX are targeting 2:45 a.m. EDT, Sunday, Aug. 24, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply...

Two Chinese astronauts spent more than six hours outside the Tiangong space station on Friday (Aug. 15), installing a debris shield on the third spacewalk of the Shenzhou 20 mission.

Tess Caswell supports the International Space Station from NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston as a capsule communicator, or capcom, and helps plan and train for future spacewalks with the Extravehicular Activity (EVA)...

Mercury is farthest from the sun in Earth's morning sky on Aug. 19.

A panel of judges has selected the 25 finalists in NASA and Freelancer's global contest to design a plush "zero-g indicator" to fly to the moon with the agency's Artemis 2 astronauts.

Introduction The 2025 Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place April 1-3, 2025 at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). Upwards of 60 participants attended in-person,...

Introduction The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, launched in 2015, has over 10 years of global L-band radiometry observations. The low frequency [1.4 GHz frequency or 21 cm (8 in) wavelength] measuremen...

Firefly Aerospace has signed an agreement to study potential launches of its Alpha rocket from a new Japanese commercial spaceport. The post Firefly signs agreement to study Alpha launches from Japan appeared first on Sp...

Introduction The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Science Team (ST) organized a three-day workshop that took place June 9-11, 2025, at the Japan Space Systems (JSS) offices in Tokyo,...

WARSAW, Poland - Italian-Dutch company Revolv Space has been selected to deliver six units of its flagship solar array drive assembly, marketed under the name of SARA, for Blue Canyon Technologies forthcoming cubesat mis...

Exploring the Cosmos and Inspiring Young Minds From January through June 2025, the Education Outreach Office at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute (GI) continued its mission of bringing science to l...

The 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission for NASA, scheduled to liftoff from the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida in late August, is heading to the International Space Station with an important investi...

By Corinne BeckingerWhen Artemis astronauts land on the Moons South Pole in a commercial human landing system, they will encounter a landscape pockmarked with deep craters, sloped connecting ridges, and harsh lighting co...

Pluto isn't the only dwarf planet residing in our solar system. Try your hand at naming the others!