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When it launches, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be tuned to the frequency needed to measure oscillations on over 300,000 red giants, which will aid in better understanding the planets that orbit them.

Congress is worried that China and its Tiangong space station will make research gains against the U.S. after the ISS retires in 2030. New legislation aims to counter that.

The discovery of the skylights and their associated caves was made using archival data from three NASA missions, showing how important findings can be made years or even decades after a mission has ended.

NASA has revised its commercial crew contract with Boeing, reducing the number of Starliner missions to four, the first of which will carry only cargo. The post NASA to fly only cargo on next Starliner mission under modi...

An expert dives into the history of radio astronomy and the search for life beyond our Earth.

As the Sun enters a period of heightened activity, students now have a new way to explore its powerful effects on Earth and space. NASAs Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), in collaboration with My NASA D...

The ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century. The hole this year was the fifth smallest since 1992, the year a landmark international a...

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) fractured following a close brush with the sun on Oct. 8.

NASAs Toolkit for Librarians can help you share NASA citizen science opportunities with your patrons and community members. Rural and urban libraries, informal educators, youth group leaders, and retirement community coo...

China will launch an empty spacecraft to provide stranded astronauts a ride home, and you can watch the action live.

Looking for an amazing quality camera, capable of capturing everything from landscapes to the night sky? This Black Friday, Walmart has beaten Amazon by slashing $165 off this Sony A7R IV.

Boeing and NASA have agreed to keep astronauts off the company's next Starliner flight and instead perform a trial run with cargo to prove its safety.

Two cute rovers recently teamed up in a moon-like facility in search of water, to support future Artemis missions and their astronauts.

Amazon has unveiled the final production version of Leo Ultra, the companys highest-performing enterprise terminal for the satellite broadband constellation it aims to bring into service next year. The post Amazon unveil...

"When the Stratomast is flying, all these old satellites are going to be in museums."

Star Wars is back in vogue with President Trumps executive order to establish the Golden Dome missile defense shield. It will feature an ambitious space-based boost-phase interceptor program in addition to terrestrial sy...

China conducted a pair of launches last week, adding new spacecraft to its opaque TJS and Shijian satellite series. The post China launches TJS-21 towards Molniya orbit, lofts trio of Shijian-30 spacecraft appeared first...

In this episode of Space Minds, Senior Staff Writer Jeff Foust moderates a panel at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, the next installment of the Centers Discovery Series. The post Science fiction and innova...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets. Using advanced numerical models, the team systematically classified for the first time six distinc...

This is not good news for the future of our planet.

Using in-situ propellant has been a central pillar of the plan to explore much of the solar system. The logic is simple - the less mass (especially in the form of propellant) we have to take out of Earths gravity well, t...

Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space-and that number is set to grow dramatically with ambitious missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. But these dreams hinge on one critical chal...