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Soon, there will be three new ways to study the Suns influence across the solar system with the launch of a trio of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spacecraft. Expected to launch no earlie...

A Spanish startup is entering the emerging reentry vehicle market with plans to develop a reusable capsule offering frequent flights. The post Orbital Paradigm readies first reentry mission appeared first on SpaceNews.

Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer and Rover Planner at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning week: Aug. 25, 2025. This week Curiosity has been exploring the boxwork unit, investigating both ...

These devoted followers in Mycogen might be the true outliers of the Seldon Plan.

The JWST is performing a new multi-wavelength survey called MINERVA (Medium-band Imaging with NIRCam to Explore ReVolutionary Astrophysics). It'll study four extragalactic fields in greater detail and depth, and will...

Amazons Project Kuiper has clinched its first airline deal, partnering with JetBlue to bring LEO connectivity to about 75 aircraft from 2027 in another blow to legacy geostationary players. The post Project Kuiper scores...

Amit Kshatriya, a veteran of NASA's Moon to Mars program, has been named NASA associate administrator, the agency's top civil-service role.

Data from NASA's InSight lander suggests there's a chunky mix beneath the surface of Mars.

Live in the eastern hemisphere? If skies are clear, you have a chance to see a remarkable sight this Sunday night into Monday morning: the Blood Moon of a total lunar eclipse. The eclipse favors the Indian Ocean region i...

In this weeks episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Riley Duren, CEO of Carbon Mapper and veteran of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The post Carbon Mapper and tracking super pollutants appeared first o...

The interstellar visitor appears to have a lot in common with its solar system brethren.

This week marks 48 years since the Sept. 5, 1977, launch of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study Jupiter and Saturn up close. Nearly a half-century later, Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager...

This competition provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to gain critical skills in engineering, computing, electronics, and more that will be required for Americas technical workforce. If you are in sixth to 12...

'The aliens are coming to Earth? I'm going, 'Heres the bill. Credit or debit? Have a good day.'

SpaceXs Dragon capsule demonstrated its ability to boost the ISS on Sept. 3, pushing the orbiting lab slightly higher above Earth.

NASA and Northrop Grumman are preparing to send the companys next cargo mission to the International Space Station, flying research to support Artemis missions to the Moon and human exploration of Mars and beyond, while ...

Following the announcement of the upcominglaunch of LEO-PNTs first satellites, ESA has now unveiled the name of the mission. Celeste, as it has been officially designated, will test the potential of a new, low Earth orbi...

NASA astronauts Jonny Kim and Zena Cardman, both Expedition 73 Flight Engineers, pose for a portrait inside the International Space Stations Unity module during a break in weekend housecleaning and maintenance activities...

Ireland's first satellite, EIRSAT-1, has completed its mission orbiting Earth. The CubeSat, which was built and launched by students and faculty of University College Dublin (UCD), will de-orbit in a day or two.

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been called the most precise ruler in the world for its ability to measure motions more than 10,000 times smaller than the width of a proton. By making t...

This is a sparkling scene of star birth captured by NASAs James Webb Space Telescope. What appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being eaten away by the bliste...

Solar eclipse maps show crisp lines for the path of totality, but in reality, the edges of the path are fuzzy, jagged and sometimes wrong by hundreds of meters or more