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The image captures the glowing ribbon of the galactic plane, where the vast majority of the Milky Way's stars are concentrated.

Two images of protoplanetary disks side-by-side. The left image shows a dark horizontal band covering the star, with broad, colorful, conical outflows above and below it, and a narrow jet pointing directly up and down fr...

A Mercury lander mission would create opportunities to sample unique geological features. However, extreme temperature fluctuations on Mercurys surface pose challenges for exploration on the planetary surface. In a narro...

In the vastness of the Universe, any new object with interesting properties can spur the search for similar objects, potentially establishing a new class of stars. In a paper published in Astronomy & Astrophysics and an ...

The ALICE experiment at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has given scientists their best look yet at quark-gluon plasma, the primordial matter that filled the universe moment...

Twin control rooms at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are actively supporting real-time mission operations in lunar orbit as part of the agencys Artemis II mission, helping ensure astronaut saf...

Owlcat Games' take on The Expanse is wearing its influences proudly, while also carving out its own hard sci-fi identity.

A Critical Infrastructure Under Strain Space has quietly become the infrastructure beneath modern life. From financial transactions synchronised by satellite timing to military operations reliant on secure communications...

The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecrafts solar array wings. During lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts observed a s...

Fast solar winds originating from the sun can have direct impacts on Earth-disrupting systems like GPS, aviation, electrical grids, and satellite and radio communications. A new paper by New Mexico State University astro...

Join us in Washington, D.C., for the next event in our orbital data centers series The post April 30: Opportunities for On-Orbit Computing appeared first on SpaceNews.

A flurry of commercial innovation has left the U.S. government with no shortage of sensors and AI-driven insights to monitor the increasingly packed and contested space environment. The challenge is [] The post Tracking ...

When Congress passed a fiscal year 2026 minibus appropriations bill in January, much of the space community breathed a sigh of relief. Congress had rejected the steep cuts proposed by the Trump administration, including ...

The Artemis 2 astronauts are capturing spectacular photos of the moon and Earth on their iPhones in space.

We applaud the lunar base vision laid out by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on March 24. Placing this stake in the lunar regolith is long overdue. What is missing from the mission architecture, however, is a vision fo...

LeoLabs Delta moves beyond collision warnings to identify potential adversarial activity The post LeoLabs debuts space monitoring tool for military users appeared first on SpaceNews.

"It is fascinating that an active galactic nucleus can change its brightness so dramatically over such a short period of time."

(Note: This article went to press for the April issue of SpaceNews Magazine before NASA announced potential changes to the CLD program.) NASA signaled last summer it planned to accelerate efforts to replace the aging Int...

As Artemis 2 begins its return to Earth, scientists are just starting to review the images and observations taken by the crew as they flew around the moon. The post Artemis 2 science gets underway as Orion begins its ret...

The contract was awarded by the Space Development Agency for 2027 demonstrations The post Capella Space wins $49 million contract for military communications satellite demo appeared first on SpaceNews.

During their historic lunar flyby, astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission witnessed meteorites striking the rugged surface of the moon, a sight that has piqued scientists' curiosity.

Seeing Earth from space changes your perspective. And this "overview effect" is magnified when you're looking back from beyond the moon, according to Artemis 2's Christina Koch.