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NASA is collaborating with the Colorado Army National Guard at its training center in Gypsum to help Artemis astronauts prepare for moon landings.

One of the world's largest radio telescopes has been destroyed by a Ukrainian drone to prevent Russian forces from using it for military communications.

Exoplanet surveys are useful for more than just astrobiology or increasing the tally of known planets in other solar systems. They can also help us understand the evolution of planetary systems themselves. Thats what a n...

A new program has discovered chaos in a nearby planetary system, which could explain the existence of a phenomenon astronomers call the hot-Neptunian desert.

Mysteriously powerful cosmic winds around neutron star may be 'game-changer' for understanding monster black holes

Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips. Along the way, a partnership between NASA wind tunnel engineers, data visualization scientists, and...

The milestone operation marks an expansion of allied cooperation in the increasingly militarized space domain The post U.S., UK Space Commands execute first joint satellite maneuvers appeared first on SpaceNews.

Subtle astronomical events can still produce memorable scenes, hidden away in distant locales. Such a spectacle goes down on Sunday/Monday, September 21st/22nd, with a partial solar eclipse. Although the eclipse only ski...

New research shows that the purported water world K2-18b isn't a marine world with a deep ocean. In fact, so-named Hycean worlds may not exist at all. But on the bright side, Earth's water content may not be unus...

Hayabusa 2 may need to alter its visit to its next target. VLT observations show that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is three times smaller than thought and spinning much more rapidly.

The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASAs future human missions to Mars. NASAs Deep Space Optical Communications technology suc...

The commercial aviation industry is a crucial component of the U.S. economy, playing a vital role in transporting people, intermediate/final goods, and driving demand for various goods and services nationwide. This netwo...

TAMPA, Fla. - Hubble Network has secured $70 million in Series B funding to help deploy a 60-satellite constellation capable of connecting up to a billion Bluetooth devices worldwide by 2028. The Seattle-based venture an...

Foundation star Pilou Asbk tells Space.com how he channeled Asimov villain The Mule in Season 4 of Apple TV's sci-fi saga.

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain how some black holes can reach enormous masses r...

Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers share thoughts on this serious bittersweet episode

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth at distances comp...

NASA engineers are strapping on backpacks loaded with radios, cameras, and antennas to test technology that might someday keep explorers connected on the lunar surface. Their mission: test how astronauts on the Moon will...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earths invisible halo, the faint light given off by our planets outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the Sun. Understanding the phy...

The Milky Way appears above Earths bright atmospheric glow in this Aug. 23, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it soared 261 miles above southern Iran at approximately 12:54 a.m. local time. The cam...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the universe created by a mysterious substance known as dark matter.

Hayabusa2's new target, asteroid 1998 KY26, is just 36 feet (11 meters) across, which will make landing on it challenging.