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Heat shield design is one of the most critical aspects of missions that plan to either land on a planets (or moons) surface or return to our own. Spacecraft that have to survive the fiery, hypersonic plunge through an at...

As part of its Ignition event on Tuesday, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve President Donald J. Trumps National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space. Th...

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A shifting geopolitical landscape is driving huge business opportunities for satcoms but also bringing new supply chain and regulatory challenges, industry executives said March 24 at the Satellite Conference in Washingt...

Astronomers have spotted two planets forming around a distant infant star, offering a time capsule into see what the solar system looked like billions of years ago.

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Three Moon rocks are on display during a March 24, 2026, eventwhere NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve the National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space....

NASAs Artemis program will establish a sustainable lunar presence, unlock new scientific discoveries, and develop technologies for spaceflight to Mars and beyond - and students can help shape this new era of space explor...

Galactic archaeology uses chemical fingerprints in the Milky Way to trace its formation and evolution. Now a team of researchers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have employed it for the first...

Rocket Lab will launch the first two satellites for Europe's Celeste navigation constellation early Wednesday morning (March 25), and you can watch the action live.

NASAs IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping fill in a fuller picture of what other telescopes have observed. When astronomers using NASAs Chandra X-...

Materials scientist Dr. Yige Sun, from the Department of Materials and Linacre College at the University of Oxford, and the Faraday Institution, argues that as space becomes critical infrastructure for the global digital...

WASHINGTON - Redwire announced the first award for its new solar arrays, a $12.8 million contract from Moog. Under the contract announced March 24, Redwire will deliver Extensible Low-Profile Solar Array (ELSA) wings for...

Washington, D.C., March 24, 2026 - OrbitsIQ Global (OIQ), an innovator in AI-driven secure connectivity across terrestrial and satellite networks, today announced a major technological milestone achieved in collaboration...

Read this news release in English here. Como parte de su evento Ignition (Encendido) celebrado el martes, la NASA anunció una serie de iniciativas transformadoras a nivel de toda la agencia, diseñadas para cumplir con ...

The asteroid will make a close approach to Earth just three days following its discovery.

The conversation around humanitys return to the moon is often viewed through launches, landers and national programs. But, industry leaders say that framework is becoming outdated. Instead, they point to [] The post From...

Astronstone, one of Chinas younger launch startups, has secured new funding as it builds toward the first flight of its reusable AS-1 rocket. The post Chinas Astronstone raises $29 million for reusable rocket with chopst...

NASA plans to launch its first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft in 2028, a probe called Space Reactor-1 Freedom that will carry a fleet of tiny helicopters to Mars.

The days are getting longer. Not by much though since we're talking about fractions of a millisecond, but the rate at which our planet is slowing down is, according to a new study, completely without precedent in the...

A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, NASAs Hubble Space Telescope has taken a fresh look at the supernova remnant. The result is an unparalleled, detailed look at the aftermath of a sup...

High in the Chilean Andes, at an altitude where the air is thin and the Sun is intense, a salt flat is hiding something remarkable. Locked inside ancient crystals of gypsum are the preserved remains of microscopic life, ...