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SAN FRANCISCO - Nuview, a Florida startup building a constellation of lidar satellites, announced a $5 million award Aug. 28 from the Defense Departments National Security Innovation Capital (NSIC) program. The funding w...

SpaceX's Starship nailed its 10th-ever test flight on Aug. 26. Footage from the launch pad that day shows just how much power the giant rocket packs.

Chinas southern province of Guangdong is aiming to create a fully integrated commercial aerospace ecosystem with its latest policy moves. The post Chinas Guangdong province lays out ambitious commercial space objectives ...

NASA has awarded ASCEND Aerospace & Technology of Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS), to provide services at the agencys Johnson Space Center in Houst...

The glacial flood risks that Juneau is now experiencing each summer are becoming a growing problem in communities around the world.

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 4, to discuss the agencys upcoming Sun and space weather missions, IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) and Carruthers Geocorona Obser...

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Scientists have retreated to deep beneath the French Alps to broaden the hunt for dark matter particles that could be "WIMPier than WIMPS."

Rocky material that impacted Mars lies scattered in giant lumps throughout the planets mantle, offering clues about Mars interior and its ancient past. What appear to be fragments from the aftermath of massive impacts on...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui will connect with students in New York as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) quest...

Thousands of Americans are impacted each summer by excessive heat and humidity, some suffering from heat-related illnesses when the body cant cool itself down. Data from NASA satellites could help local governments reduc...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured a striking new image of massive, wind-carved sand formations known as "megaripples" during its latest exploration stop on the Red Planet.

In this weeks episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Will Bruey, CEO and co-founder of Varda Space Industries - a company developing in-space pharmaceutical manufacturing. The post How microgravity could ...

It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ripples from the Big Bang, but they could change our understanding of the entire universe.

The sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core and can no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion as it does now. The death of the sun is often thought of as the end of the ...

Every once in a while, you may look up toward the sun and see strange bright lights on either side of it. Or perhaps you'll be sitting in an aircraft, looking out the window at its shadow, and see a circle of light, ...

A new NASA-IBM algorithm called Surya could be a major leap in space weather forecasting.

A new study by Manuel Barrientos and colleagues from the University of Oklahoma reveals that between 0.6% and 2.5% of white dwarfs in our solar neighborhood undergo dramatic cooling delays that could extend habitable zon...

New research published in the journal Science reveals the red planet's mantle preserves a record of its violent beginnings.

Here's where to find very dark skies in the U.S. and Canada.

The Milky Way is a spectacular sight in the summer skies but why does it look so much more brilliant than it does in the winter?

Space Systems Command: This is a hosted payload program demonstrating how a commercial capability can provide flexible and adaptable space domain awareness The post Geost to supply two optical payloads for U.S. Space For...