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The European Space Agency is planning to buy a dedicated SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to send its astronauts to the International Space Station to boost their time and experience in space.

Astronomers have used the XRISM X-ray spacecraft to discover a star being devoured by a stellar companion, solving a mystery that has baffled scientists for over 100 years.

Were getting close to launch day for Dragonfly! Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have officially kicked off the integration and testing stage for the car-sized, nuclear...

Nota del editor: La NASA actualizará continuamente esta página de sesiones informativas y eventos de la misión Artemis II a lo largo de las actividades previas al lanzamiento, el lanzamiento y las operaciones de la mi...

NASAs Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley invites media to interview local subject matter experts on Friday, March 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ahead of the agency sending astronauts around the Moon for the first time in...

A variety of prelaunch, launch, and mission events for NASAs Artemis II mission around the Moon will stream online. The agency is targeting no earlier than Wednesday, April 1, for the test flight during a two-hour window...

Officials explore shifting missions, extending satellites already in orbit The post Space Force weighs launch alternatives as Vulcan faces potential months-long grounding appeared first on SpaceNews.

Get to know NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission with Space.com's exclusive four-part video series Inside Artemis II debuting March 25-March 31.

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, thanks to an innovative AI program.

An international team led by a researcher at the Chiba Institute of Technology has discovered an extremely rare phenomenon: a galaxy about 10 billion light-years away whose brightness dropped to one-twentieth of its orig...

On March 18, 2026, students, staff, and members of NASAs Langley Research Center gathered at Mary W. Jackson Elementary School in Hampton to celebrate the dedication of a remarkable addition to the campus - an Artemis Mo...

Astronomers have observed two planets forming in the disc around a young star named WISPIT 2. Having previously detected one planet, the team have now employed European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes to confirm th...

With the ISS set to retire in 2030, several plans are in place to replace it. These include existing space stations, proposals by rising national space agencies, and commercial space stations. In terms of the commercial ...

The Office of Space Commerce has rolled out its proposal for a light touch approach to mission authorization, the latest attempt in an effort to regulate new commercial space applications. The post Office of Space Commer...

The king of the planets meets a waxing half moon at sunset tomorrow.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have joined forces to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways. Infrared and visible observations ...

Saturns icy rings glow in this infrared view from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope released on March 25, 2026. Combining this image with another that NASAs Hubble Space Telescope captured - also released on the same day ...

NASA is serving up a double scoop of delicious Saturn imagery in two flavors - near-infrared from the James Webb Space Telescope, and visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways. Observing in complementary wavelengths of light, the two ...

IRVINE, Calif., March 25, 2026 - Terran Orbital Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, today announced the introduction of its new star tracker product line at SATSHOW 2026, expanding the companys [] The post Terran Orb...

NASAs James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways. Observing in complementary wavelengths of light, the two space...

Canada has canceled its first-ever moon rover mission, which had been targeted to land near the lunar south pole in 2029.