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A reported close approach between a Starlink satellite and a recently launched Chinese spacecraft highlights the challenges of coordinating spacecraft operations and verifying potential close calls in orbit. The post Spa...

Digantara Industries, an Indian space situational awareness company, has raised $50 million as it expands into the United States and pursues opportunities in missile defense. The post Digantara raises $50 million to expa...

New measurements demonstrate that smoke particles in the upper atmosphere are twice the size of lower-altitude ones.

Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASAs IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black holes jet, answering a question that has bee...

NASA is now accepting concepts for a new research challenge. The Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology (ORBIT) challenge is a multi-phase innovation competition designed to empower university an...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured solar material looping back to the sun, revealing how it recycles magnetic energy and shapes future solar storms.

After 25 years of continuous human presence in space, the International Space Station remains a training and proving ground for deep space missions, enabling NASA to focus on Artemis missions to the Moon and Mars. The or...

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor star in Universal Pictures' eerie alien invasion project coming next summer.

With a second Trump Administration at the helm in 2025, NASA marked significant progress toward the Artemis II test flight early next year, which is the first crewed mission around the Moon in more than 50 years, as well...

The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASAs twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to the Moon. Launches invo...

NASA still hasn't heard from its MAVEN Mars orbiter, and the spacecraft appears to be spinning in an odd way as well.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities in the world. Researchers use it to study dark and distant regions of the universe in or...

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket is poised to launch a pair of Galileo satellites just after midnight on Wednesday (Dec. 17), adding to the continent's geopositioning constellation.

When we gaze up at the night sky, we assume that what we're seeing is a representative population of similar stars at similar distances. But it's not. The stars we see are a mixture of massive and small, distant ...

A Japanese H3 rocket will launch the Michibiki 5 navigation satellite to orbit tonight (Dec. 16), and you can watch the action live.

Clockwise from left, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronauts Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, and Mike Fincke pose for a playful portrait through a circular opening in a hatch thermal c...

The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA's twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to the moon. Launches...

Ensuring Astronaut Safety Achieving safe exploration of space in vehicles that rely upon closed environmental systems to recycle air and water to sustain life and are operated in extremely remote locations is a major cha...

Enabling Successful Research A major aim of biomedical research at NASA is to acquire data to evaluate, understand, and assess the biomedical hazards of spaceflight and to develop effective countermeasures. Data Science ...

Okey Dokey! Prime Video's post-apocalyptic adventure heads for New Vegas starting tonight!

Mesas and dunes stand out in the view snapped by HiRISE, one of the imagers aboard the agencys Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. After nearly 20 years at the Red Planet, NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped its...

The NASA CalVal team spent 2025 improving their calibration techniques, strengthening collaboration, and sharing their work with the remote sensing community. Looking ahead, theyre applying lessons learned to prepare for...