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NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16.

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught the "echo" of this gamma-ray burst.

NASAs quiet supersonic X-59 aircraftmadeitssecond flight on Friday, kicking off aseries of dozens oftestflights in2026. Although the flight duration wasabbreviateddue to atechnical issue,the team was able tocollect infor...

Astronomers have found the first case of a brown dwarf binary pair experiencing mass transfer. The pair are very close to one another, with an orbital period of only 57 minutes. The pair will eventually merge into one, b...

Rocket Lab launched the latest in a series of satellites for Japanese radar imaging company Synspective on March 20. The post Rocket Lab launches eighth Synspective radar imaging satellite appeared first on SpaceNews.

Astronomers have found four new moons orbiting Jupiter and 11 new moons around Saturn.

Restoration has been completed on Hangar One, a historic landmark in theSan FranciscoBay Area and a key part of the regionsearlyaviation history. In December 2025, Planetary Ventures completed restoration of the Hangar O...

The change affects the GPS III SV-10 satellite, which had been slated to launch on ULAs Vulcan Centaur rocket. The post Another GPS launch shifts from ULA to SpaceX as Vulcan investigation continues appeared first on Spa...

The U.S. Space Force has swapped rockets for an upcoming GPS satellite launch, moving to a SpaceX Falcon 9 while the investigation into an anomaly with ULA's Vulcan Centaur continues.

Has Project Hail Mary left you craving more of Andy Weir's work? We've rounded up the best of Andy Weir's sci-fi books, from The Martian to Artemis.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon leave our solar system, never to return, but the observations of the comet will live on in NASAs public data archives. More than a dozen NASA science missions turned their instru...

Super-puff planets have extremely low densities, and exoplanet scientists aren't sure why. They seem to defy our understanding of how planets form. Researchers used the JWST to observe the atmosphere of Kepler-51d, o...

'Amaze, amaze, amaze!'

NASA astronaut Chris Williams smiles at the camera during a spacesuit fit verification on Jan. 2, 2026, inside the International Space Stations Quest airlock. This procedure confirms that the spacesuit is airtight and pr...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.

Real-life space exploration and big-screen science fiction will converge on Friday. As NASA prepares to launch Artemis II, the first crewed mission under the agencys Artemis program and another step toward sending the fi...

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois tonight and over the weekend as several coronal mass ejections and fast solar wind impact Earth.

A research team from the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), the Department of Environmental Process Engineering (UVT) at the University of Bremen and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has made s...

Rocket Lab has inked a $190 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense for 20 launches of the company's suborbital HASTE rocket.

NASA's Space Launch System rocket was back on the move overnight ahead of its second mission to the moon, which will be the first time the vehicle carries a crew.

Image: Artemis II rocket back at its launchpad after a second rollout at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

New observations by a team of US astronomers have cast fresh doubt on whether the lunar surface could host abundant water ice. Publishing their results in Science Advances, a team led by Shuai Li at the University of Haw...