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Beijing's recent military parade unveiled new hypersonic and intercontinental missiles alongside stealth drones, highlighting China's expanding strike and defense capabilities

SAN FRANCISCO - Orbital Sidekick hyperspectral sensors revealed new information on damage sustained by Irans Fordownuclear fuel enrichment plant after U.S. armed forces bombed the site in June. OSKs Global Hyperspectral ...

China conducted a pair of launches sending an experimental spacecraft to geosynchronous orbit and three further satellites into polar orbits. The post China launches experimental Shiyan-29 to GEO, commercial Ceres-1 carr...

The seven members of the Expedition 73 crew worked on science and kept systems running on International Space Station this week in Earth orbit.

NASA is requesting feedback from American companies on the next phase of its commercial space stations strategy to ensure a seamless transition of activities in low Earth orbit from the International Space Station. The a...

Four research volunteers will soon participate in NASAs year-long simulation of a Mars mission inside a habitat at the agencys Johnson Space Center in Houston. This mission will provide NASA with foundational data to inf...

The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane is carrying a sample of material that could someday help NASA land cargo and people on Mars.

Make way for the shock and awe of this 'technological terror' coming to your galaxy next month.

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown dwarfs, potentially offering clues to the diversity of worlds beyond our solar system."...

This sparkling scene of star birth was captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA 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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO - GHGSat and ExxonMobil Corp. announced a partnership Sept. 5 to monitor and mitigate methane emissions for onshore operations in North America and Asia. Collaboration between GHGSat, a Canadian firm focuse...

A new particle detector has passed a crucial test, demonstrating it's ready to start investigating quark-gluon plasma, the hot particle soup that existed during the first milliseconds of the universe.

The year's second total lunar eclipse is coming up fast, and this time Asia will have the best seats in the cosmos.

Astronomers have captured a stunning new image of the interstellar intruder 3I/ATLAS, seeing its growing tail and glowing coma.

Orion Mission Evaluation Room (MER) team member works during an Artemis II mission simulation on Aug. 19, 2025, from the new Orion MER inside the Mission Control Center at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston. As NASAs ...

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Week in images: 01-05 September 2025 Discover our week through the lens

How to watch the Sept. 7-8 total lunar eclipse live from the comfort of your home.

NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos...

One member of the cluster was previously believed to be the most massive star known, but is actually a triple star system of huge stars, all of which will go supernova.

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many of these planets have properties that differ significantly from the eight planets in our solar s...

A new space race is heating up across the pond - not to be the first to reach the moon, but to provide a credible and flexible legal framework capable of turbocharging the space sectors in the United Kingdom and Europe. ...