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Earths orbit is on track for a catastrophe. That was the rather alarming prediction of the authors of a recent piece published in The Conversation. As the argument goes, orbit is filling up fast, and both nation-states a...

Saturn is one of the most recognisable and studied planets in the Solar System, it was the first thing I ever saw through a telescope and yet it is still finding ways to surprise us. New research analysing data from NASA...

For the first time in history, scientists have used a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon to search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence. China's Chang'E-4 lander sat in the most radio quiet location...

Deep in the heart of a distant galaxy, two monsters are locked in a death spiral and for the first time, they have been caught them in the act. A new study has confirmed the first close pair of supermassive black holes e...

It just goes on and on, my friends.

NASA will roll the largest section of the agencys SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, which will launch the second crewed Artemis mission, out of the agencys Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Monday, April 20. Wh...

NASAs 32nd annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge, one of the agencys longest-standing student challenges, culminated April 10-11 with its final excursion event at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center near NASAs Marshall Spa...

The global space community is looking to build on a wave of momentum to expand its civil and national security sectors and sustain the industrys resurgence well into the future. Heather Pringle, the Space Foundations chi...

Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, April 3, 2026 I was the geology science team lead on Monday for planning Sols 4852-4853, when our...

"This is the least transparent NASA budget request I've ever seen - and I've literally looked through every single one since 1960."

Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Strategic Planner and Planetary Geologist at the University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, March 27, 2026 Last weekends drive took us just over the southernmost conta...

A study led by UC Riverside physicist Hai-Bo Yu suggests that a new type of dark matter could explain three astrophysical puzzles across vastly different environments. Published in Physical Review Letters, the study prop...

Fresh off their return to Earth, the Artemis II astronauts will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 16, at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss their historic mission around the Moon. NASA...

Phantom Space believes it now has the key pieces of a vertically integrated model to compete on the edges of the emerging orbital data center market, where industry giants are already staking claims to meet soaring AI-dr...

The Aerospace Corp. plans to offer industry access to its expertise and facilities through a new program called government furnished talent (GFT). By providing companies with access to the Federally Funded Research and D...

At this point in NASA's human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material-documents, artifacts and images-with which to tell the stories of past flights to space. But with NASA's Artemis ...

A historic mission to the moon. A record-setting budget for the Space Force. Billions of dollars in new valuations. As the 41st Space Symposium opens in Colorado Springs, optimism is bountiful for the space industry. At ...

The future of space is commercial, with American companies critical to establishing a moon base and developing a vibrant economy in low Earth orbit (LEO) and beyond. The Trump administration has set a goal to attract at ...

The center of our galaxy is an extreme place. Surrounding the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, stars are packed densely into a region where gravity, radiation, and dark matter all interact in complex ways. It is a...

The uncrewed Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft, the S.S. Steven R. Nagel, arrived at the International Space Station on Monday (April 13), bringing with it about 11,000 pounds of supplies.

The first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century are back on Earth after a record-setting mission aboard NASAs Artemis II test flight. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (commander), Christina Koch (missi...