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For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts on a NASA mission are bound to fly around the Moon after successfully completing a key burn of Orions main engine. With the approximately six-minute firing of the spac...

In a new proposal, a team of scientists explores how aerial robotic platforms (areobots) with in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) capability could operate for years in Venus' atmosphere.

Patches of open water in the region contributed to low sea ice extent across the Arctic in March 2026, which tied with the lowest maximum observed in the satellite record.

NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 8:49 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 8, for the next launch delivering science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. Fil...

From the ground to low Earth orbit, the Artemis 2 launch became a shared moment across the planet and beyond.

Venus returns as a brilliant evening star in 2026, with dazzling conjunctions, peak brightness and stunning views through the summer.

Data from Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander casts doubt on the decades-old view of the moon as divided between a hotter near side and cooler far side.

NASAs first Artemis II science officers-Kelsey Young, Trevor Graff, and Angela Garcia-are pioneering a new era of mission operations by integrating advanced lunar science directly into Mission Control. Their work will sh...

Italys Argotec has officially opened its first U.S. satellite production facility, cementing a foothold near Kennedy Space Center in Florida to join other foreign space firms pursuing growing demand from American program...

An Atlas V is slated to launch 29 of Amazon's internet satellites - collectively the heaviest load the rocket has ever lofted - on Saturday morning (April 4), and you can watch it live.

The Artemis 2 astronauts snapped a gorgeous photo of their home planet recently as they sped away from it and toward the moon.

For the second consecutive year, the White House is proposing a major budget cut for NASA that would significantly impact the agencys science programs and the International Space Station. The post White House again propo...

Week in images: 30 March - 03 April 2026 Discover our week through the lens

Were getting closer and closer to finding a real Earth-like exoplanet. But finding one is only half the battle. To truly know if were looking at an Earth analog somewhere else in the galaxy, we have to directly image it ...

The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could be home to a previously unknown state of matter, according to new computational simulations by Carnegie's Cong Liu and Ronald Cohen. Their work, publis...

Love Doctor Who? Then you'll be over the moon that two previously lost episodes, The Nightmare Begins and Devil's Planet, have been recovered. Here's how to watch them wherever you are.

NASA's Artemis Program seeks to place American boots close to the moon's south pole.

We're getting closer and closer to finding a real Earth-like exoplanet. But finding one is only half the battle. To truly know if we're looking at an Earth analog somewhere else in the galaxy, we have to directly...

Amazon says it will revise deployment plans for its broadband satellite constellation while denying claims from SpaceX that its current approach represents a space safety risk. The post SpaceX and Amazon spar over satell...

An unusual team of astronomers used Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) data and observations on the Magellan telescopes at Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to discover the most pristine star in t...

The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet's brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon.

In an unusual perspective for an Earth-observing satellite, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this image of the moon, Earth's only natural satellite. The Sentinel-2 mission acquired this lunar image by rolli...