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NASAs Stennis Space Center is widely known for rocket propulsion testing, especially to support the NASA Artemis program to send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars. What may not be so ...

A team of Japanese astronomers has detected protostellar outflow jets in the outer regions of the Milky Way. This is the first detection of this type of jets in this part of the galaxy. Since this part of the galaxy is s...

Interstellar comets are rare, and astronomers don't like to miss an opportunity to observe one. Now the Gemini South Telescope has taken a turn at imaging Comet 3I/ATLAS, the visitor from another star system. The ima...

A newly discovered gamma-ray burst is unlike any seen before, repeating over the course of a day rather than erupting in milliseconds, leaving astronomers perplexed by its origins.

The system, known as Soldier-Borne Mission Command Architecture (SBMC-A), is being developed by defense contractor Anduril Industries. The post Maxar to supply 3D terrain data for U.S. Army mixed-reality system appeared ...

A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere when they fell to Earth millions of years ago.

Rocky material that impacted Mars lies scattered in giant lumps throughout the planets mantle, offering clues about Mars interior and its ancient past. Data provided by the now-retired InSight lander is shedding light on...

Astronomers have detected an explosion of gamma rays that repeated several times over the course of a day, an event unlike anything ever witnessed before. It took place in a distant galaxy and was first detected on July ...

A greedy white dwarf star not far from Earth is devouring its closest celestial companion at a rate never seen before, space scientists have discovered. Their study found the double star, named V Sagittae, is burning unu...

Directive 8020 is shaking up the Supermassive Games formula for better and for worse.

The FCC has dropped investigations into EchoStar as the satellite operator moves to sell spectrum to SpaceX and AT&T in deals totalling more than $40 billion. The post FCC closes EchoStar probes as spectrum sales reshape...

In the not-too-distant future, "artificial astronauts" could fly as actual crew members on human missions to Mars, and elsewhere in space.

As part of the Artemis 2 astronaut moon mission launching no earlier than 2026, NASA is asking volunteers to test alternative forms of deep-space tracking.

NASA's hosting a teleconference on Wednesday (Sept. 10) to discuss a new rock analysis from the Perseverance Mars rover. Here's how to tune in.

Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now?

Exploring AI in space bolsters analytics software used in finance, manufacturing, and industry.

The Artemis II crew (from front left to back right) - pilot Victor Glover, commander Reid Wiseman, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen of CSA (Canadian Space Agency), and mission specialist Christina Koch - walk out of the ...

Research Astrophysicist and Romans Deputy Wide Field Instrument Scientist - Goddard Space Flight Center From a young age, Ami Choi - now a research astrophysicist at NASA - was drawn to the vast and mysterious. By the fi...

An unusual cosmic object is helping scientists better understand the chemistry hidden deep in Jupiter and Saturns atmospheres - and potentially those of exoplanets. Why has silicon, one of the most common elements in the...

Extremophiles are a favorite tool of astrobiologists. But not only are they good for understanding the kind of extreme environments that life can survive in, sometimes they are useful as actual tools, creating materials ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured great shots of the total lunar eclipse over the weekend.

Memorial spaceflights have grown from novelty to a modest and steady business, one thats carried thousands of loved ones to orbit over the past three decades. Now, a startup founded by a former Blue Origin engineer aims ...