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"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."

NASA is at an inflection point. 2026 will now begin with a newly-confirmed Jared Isaacman as a NASA Administrator with the White House directive to beat China back to the moon with astronauts. On the science side, we hop...

Ten years on from 'The Force Awakens', we look back at what's gone right and what's gone wrong.

More than a year after his initial nomination, the U.S. Senate has voted to confirm billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator.

Aerospace engineer Michi Benthaus will become the first wheelchair user ever to reach space on Thursday (Dec. 18), and you can watch her historic launch atop a Blue Origin rocket live.

Rocket Lab is scheduled to launch four "DiskSats" for the U.S. Space Force at midnight on Thursday (Dec. 18), and you can watch the action live.

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike species, there'...

After nearly five years on Mars, NASAs Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rovers durability and gathering new science findings on the way to a ...

The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just notched a big milestone, snapping its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet.

This NASA/ESAHubble Space Telescopeimage features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The galaxy, which is substantially smaller than our own Milky Way, lies 13 million light-years away in the ...

NASA is working with commercial partners to create high-performing, reliable propulsion systems that will help small spacecraft safely maneuver in orbit, reach intended destinations across the solar system, and accomplis...

Back in December 2015, the Force awakened in Star Wars, but it quickly went back to sleep.

The US Senate on Wednesday approved President Donald Trump's re-nomination of billionaire Jared Isaacman to head NASA, following months of backtracking and uncertainty over the space agency's future.

Gemini North captured new images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after it reemerged from behind the Sun on its path out of the Solar System. The data were collected during a Shadow the Scientists session - a unique outreach initiative...

NASAs commercial partners are actively demonstrating next-generation satellite relay capabilities for spaceflight missions, marking a significant step toward retiring the agencys Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) ...

A key discovery from NASAs Cassini mission in 2008 was that Saturns largest moon Titan may have a vast water ocean below its hydrocarbon-rich surface. But reanalysis of mission data suggests a more complicated picture: T...

"We're not certain if having widespread liquid pockets instead of a global ocean makes Titan more or less habitable."

Everyones favorite interstellar comet posed for one more portrait recently. The European Space Agencys XMM-Newton mission nabbed 3I/ATLAS on December 3rd from about 283 million kilometers distant. This comes as the comet...

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the worlds longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.

After nearly five years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover's durability and gathering new science findings on the...

A joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Unmanned Exploration Laboratory (UEL) has developed a transformative wheel capable of navigating the moon's most extre...