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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026.

Behind the rhetoric about competition and innovation, not everyone is convinced SDAs approach is a win-win The post Space Force wants competition. Satellite makers want stability. appeared first on SpaceNews.

Lunar night survival becomes an imperative Surviving the lunar night has crossed a critical threshold: what was once a nice-to-have is now the imperative for any serious lunar mission. Were seeing this survive, operate, ...

NASAs Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning new image of HH 8081, a pair of objects created when supersonic jets from a newborn star slam into previously expelled gas clouds, heating them to extreme levels. These ...

Lee este comunicado de prensa en españolaquí. NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 5:05 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 14, for the undocking of the agencys SpaceX Crew-11 mission from the International Space Statio...

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy have firmed up their commitment to develop a nuclear reactor for use on the surface of the moon by 2030.

New Space is a term now commonly used around the rocketry and satellite industries to indicate a new, speed focused model of development that takes its cue from the Silicon Valley mindset of "move fast and (hopefully...

Imagine a fully automated 3D printer suspended in midair, churning out crucial components for use at home and abroad.

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission will leave the International Space Station on Jan. 14, in the first-ever medical evacuation from the orbital lab. Here are the details.

A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new image from NASAs Hubble Space Telescope. To the left, an actively forming star called a protostar...

MILAN - The European Space Agency and Luxembourgs ClearSpace announced Jan. 12 a new collaboration on an in-orbit servicing and active debris removal mission called PRELUDE, one that will involve two small spacecraft des...

NASA, along with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announced Tuesday a renewed commitment to their longstanding partnership to support the research and development of a fission surface power system for use on the Moon...

'It felt really warm and welcoming. It was a lovely atmosphere the whole time.'

Deal tied to planned IPO aims to expand solid rocket motor capacity The post Pentagon commits $1 billion to L3Harris missile unit as anchor investor appeared first on SpaceNews.

"It points to a slow starvation rather than a single dramatic death blow."

Mars Was Half Covered by an Ocean susannakohler33808 Mon, 01/12/2026 - 12:00 Mars Was Half Covered by an Ocean https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2026/media_releases_2026/mars_was_half_covered_by_an_ocean/ind...

"Microgravity pushed evolution into corners of the phage we still don't fully understand"

"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used to understand the physics that govern black hole jets."

The Orion Nebula is the closest large star-forming region, located within the Milky Way just 1,500 light-years from Earth.

NASA is getting ready to send four astronauts around the Moon with Artemis II, laying the foundation for sustainable missions to the lunar surface and paving the way for human exploration on Mars. As the agency considers...

A widespread demand for nuclear power has led some to call this period a nuclear renaissance, one that will continue to build momentum in 2026. This growing need is being driven by two primary use cases: small modular nu...

Space apparently changes your frame of mind in more ways than one.