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A new movie called "Project Hail Mary" tells the story of an unlikely astronaut who teams up with an alien to deal with a common cosmic threat. In the latest Fiction Science podcast, SETI astronomer Seth Shostak ...

NASAs approach to managing the development of crewed lunar landers for Artemis has successfully controlled costs but not schedule, raising questions about NASAs desire to accelerate those efforts. The post Report critici...

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) has barely begun observations and is already wowing us. Images like its Cosmic Treasure Chest have us anticipating even more cosmic glory. And when the observatory sent out 800,000 alerts...

The William T. Pecora Award is presented annually to individuals or teams using satellite or aerial remote sensing that make outstanding contributions toward understanding the Earth (land, oceans, and air), educating the...

NASA telescopes have detected what could be the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. A merging pair of neutron stars generated when they merged and exploded as a kilonova. It happened in an unusual location: a tid...

Northrop Grumman's first "Cygnus XL" cargo ship will depart the International Space Station Thursday morning (March 12), and you can watch the action live.

Satellite operator SES said a missile targeted and struck its teleport facility in Israel March 9 as tensions spill across the region amid ongoing Israeli and U.S. military operations against Iran. The post Missile strik...

Voyager Technologies is backing lunar habitat developer Max Space with a new multi-million-dollar investment aimed at accelerating development of expandable modules for future missions to the moon.

NASAs University Innovation (UI) project funds university-led innovation to address the agencys Aeronautics Research Mission Directorates system-level challenges via independent, NASA-alternate-path, multi-disciplinary a...

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that analyzes the motion of two nearby galaxy groups within their surrounding cosmic flow. The results...

'The scope of ''Starfleet Academy' in terms of design, art direction, visual effects, practical effects, and graphics is massive.'

This March 3, 2026, image combines views from ESAs (European Space Agency) Euclid and NASAs Hubble Space Telescope to feature one of the most visually intricate remnants of a dyingstar: the Cats Eye Nebula, also known as...

Supermassive black hole binaries can be difficult to detect in many galaxies, but a new approach could find them by looking for the regular flashes of starlight caused by the gravitational lensing of these black holes.

Our how-to for observing a meteorite through a microscope.

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

Recent engineering setbacks, specifically regarding helium system issues associated with the improper flow of helium into the Space Launch System (SLS) rockets upper stage, and persistent hydrogen leaks, have forced NASA...

Autobots, roll out - out of the way, that is, because War Machine is proving how to do human vs intergalactic machine conflict better.

The company says it will rework its BADGER antenna design and compete for the follow-on effort The post Space Force officially terminates AeroVironment contract for satellite control antennas appeared first on SpaceNews....

NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large astrophysics mission, a decision the projects leader blames on upheaval within the agency last year. The post NASA disqualifies X-ray telescope from Probe missio...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar-a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star-and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the cosmos. The fin...

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.