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The first scientific balloon flight happened on Dec. 16, 2025.

Oleg Orlov, Director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), announced that the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) will include the modules that make up the Russian Orbital Segment of...

Test your cosmic eye: can you match these dazzling nebula images to their names?

Watch those skies! In 2025, quality television really did come from outer space.

Yuletide season is officially upon us and here's a joyous array of new titles to add to your holiday reading list.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured two nearby dwarf galaxies interacting with each other in this image released on Dec. 2, 2025.

NORAD celebrates its 70th year of tracking Santa Claus as he flies around the world delivering joy this Christmas Eve.

Introduction In an era where satellite observations of Earth are commonplace, its easy to forget that only a few decades ago, the amount of information available about the state of Earths environment was limited; observa...

Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit.

Introduction On November 16, 2025, the Sentinel-6B satellite launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California. The mission is a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

Deal deepens contractors push into space-based sensing and optical communications. The post CACI to buy space technology firm ARKA for $2.6 billion appeared first on SpaceNews.

Qingzhou is a lighter and potentially lower-cost alternative to China's Tianzhou freighter.

Teams at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida spent 2025 preparing the launch vehicle and its powerhouse SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to launch four astronauts around the Moon for Artemis II in early 2026. The cente...

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Idaho as incoming speedy solar wind continues to buffet Earth's magnetic field.

From space slugs to lunar cemeteries, these movies, games, and books show that the undead can arrive from above, as well as below.

Saturns largest moon, Titan, may not have a subsurface ocean after all. Thats according to a re-examination of data captured by NASAs Cassini mission, which flew by Titan dozens of times starting in 2004. By 2008, all th...

NASAs James Webb Space Telescope captured two nearby dwarf galaxies interacting with each other in this image released on Dec. 2, 2025. Dwarf galaxies can give us insights into galaxies in the early universe, which were ...

In 2025, NASAs Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, advanced work across aeronautics, Earth science, exploration technologies, and emerging aviation systems, reinforcing its role as one of the agencys...

21 December 2025, akovec - Genesis Space Flight Laboratories launches its Microgravity Research Rideshare Program, making it easier and more affordable to conduct retrievable experiments in space. From now on, [] The pos...

Bitcoin-mining mega data center seen leaking heat into the environment in an image captured from orbit by a thermometer satellite

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up everything that comes their way, but astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered that even supermassive black holes can be picky eat...

Engineers need good data to build lasting things. Even the designers of the Great Pyramids knew the limestone they used to build these massive structures would be steady when stacked on top of one another, even if they d...