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China carried out separate Long March 8 and Long March 6A launches this week, adding new batches of satellites to the countrys megaconstellation projects. The post China conducts pair of Long March launches for Thousand ...

he Pentagon is no longer asking whether commercial space will matter in future conflicts. It is building a strategy around the assumption that it will. The post A new kind of arsenal: commercial satellites appeared first...

Space mobility company Portal Space Systems has raised $50 million to scale up development of its highly maneuverable spacecraft. The post Portal Space Systems raises $50 million to accelerate spacecraft development appe...

Windshaper A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research. The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API. A companion...

Listen to this audio excerpt from Dan Florez, test director for NASAs Exploration Ground Systems Program: At 1:47 a.m. EST November 16, 2022, as the Artemis I engines ignited, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and Dan Florez, ...

WindShaper A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research. The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API. A companion...

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The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASAs Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal some regions no human has seen, including a rare in-space solar eclipse. Released Tuesday, astronauts ca...

The Artemis II crew captured this photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026. The Milky Ways elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more...

Description A graphical representation of the Deep Space Networks radio frequency antennas indicate signal acquisition from NASAs Artemis II mission to the Moon on April 1, 2026, inside the Space Flight Operations Facili...

Description The acquisition of the radio frequency signal from the Artemis II crewed mission to the Moon by NASAs Deep Space Network (DSN) is indicated by the peak in the data signal shown on the top computer screen. Soo...

Description Blanca Renteria, Artemis Deep Space Network (DSN) operations chief, monitors data at the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California shortly after Artemis II lau...

Observing the Taurus Molecular Cloud, a research team led by Kyushu University has found that during the early growth period of a baby star, the protostellar disk blows magnetic flux 1,000 au in size and creates a giant,...

Description A container of lucky peanuts sits above workstations within the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory shortly before the launch of the Artemis II mission to the Moon on April 1, ...

A crew of tiny worms will spend six months aboard the International Space Station, helping researchers better understand how long-term spaceflight affects human astronauts.

MILAN - PLD Space signed a 30 million euro ($35 million) venture debt loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB) on April 7, a move to support the final development stage of MIURA 5, PLDs lightweight rocket. Miura 5, w...

Drawing ever closer to Earth, the Artemis II astronauts tidied up their lunar cruiser for its upcoming "fireball" return and reflected on their historic journey around the moon, describing it as surreal and profo...

In response to a request from the U.S. government, Planet Labs made a decision not to share photos of Iran as well as the larger conflict region in the Middle East indefinitely

On April 10, Artemis II-humanity's first mission to the moon in more than half a century-will draw to a close when the Orion capsule carrying four crew members detaches from its service module.

Reading the "Mars Trilogy" by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the red planet into sharp relief. Since the 1970s, when Carl Sagan first suggested the possibility that ...

The asteroid is on the European Space Agency's Risk List, but poses no threat to Earth or the moon during the close approach.

A Virtual Telescope Project livestream will track NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft as it races back toward Earth. Here's how to watch it live.