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President Trumpsrecent executive orderpromoting commercial space competition highlights Americasunique advantagein the final frontier: our dynamic commercial space sector. American companies such as SpaceX, Planet Labs a...

What can the Galactic Habitable Zone (GHZ), which is a galaxys region where complex life is hypothesized to be able to evolve, teach scientists about finding the correct stars that could have habitable planets? This is w...

Astronomers used a powerful virtual radio telescope to observe a distant active galaxy. The observations revealed a ribbon-like jet of super-heated plasma. The plasma reaches temperatures of more than 10 trillion Kelvin,...

This quiz will challenge your knowledge of Uranus's strange rotation, chilly atmosphere, and curious collection of moons.

Rocket Lab's new Launch Complex 3 will launch Neutron rockets that can land themselves on land or at sea just like SpaceX rockets.

The half-lit moon will appear close to Antares in the constellation Scorpius later this week.

Since sending the first human into space in the 1960s, the solution to one key challenge has remained elusive: the efficient and reliable production of oxygen in space. On the International Space Station, this problem is...

Here's a rundown of Isaac Asimov's mind-numbing field of mathematics that predicts future events.

The White House has moved to eliminate employee unions at NASA, among other agencies, on national security grounds. The post White House moves to eliminate NASA labor unions appeared first on SpaceNews.

The Celestron SkyMaster binoculars come highly recommended by our experts, and with a saving of over $116, now is the time to spot stars and galaxies for less.

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur has retired, concluding a career spanning more than two decades. A veteran of two spaceflights, McArthur logged 213 days in space, including being the first woman to pilot a SpaceX Dragon sp...

Week in images: 25-29 August 2025 Discover our week through the lens

The Operational Land Imager onLandsat 9captured this image of Buccaneer Archipelago on June 11, 2025.The scene encapsulates the striking interactions between land and water in the area where King Sound opens to the India...

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of how hypervelocity white dwarfs rocket out of the Milky Way at breakneck speeds.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy whose asymmetric appearance may be the result of a galactic tug of war. Located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, the spiral galaxy Messier...

As humans expand into space, how we'll continue to expand the species remains an important question.

There's more to being a Vulcan than prosthetic ears and playing it straight.

A research team has used both archival Hubble Space Telescope data and new observations to precisely measure the binary star system NGC3603-A1. One star weighs about 93 times the mass of our sun, while its companion tips...

For this new Picture of the Month feature, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided a fantastic new view of IRAS 04302+2247, a planet-forming disk located about 525 light-years away in a dark cloud within...

The near-Earth asteroid's microscopic surface tells a detailed story.

Rocket Lab moved a step closer to the first launch of its Neutron rocket Aug. 28 with the formal opening of the vehicles launch site. The post Rocket Lab inaugurates Neutron launch pad appeared first on SpaceNews.

According to astronomers, water worlds, though admittedly not those containing Kevin Costner, are one of the most common types of planets in our solar system. This is partly due to low density estimates and the abundance...