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A revised draft of a proposed European Union space regulation is a step backward, creating uncertainty about how the law would be applied outside the EU, critics argue. The post New EU Space Act draft seen as a step back...

NASA has selected SpaceXs Falcon Heavy to launch a European Mars rover, support for which the agency is once again proposing to cancel. The post NASA selects Falcon Heavy to launch ESA Mars rover mission despite budget t...

NorthStar Earth and Space plans to raise funds to expand the space-based sensor network behind its space situational awareness business by merging with Viking Acquisition Corp. I, a publicly listed shell company. The pos...

The new moon is the perfect time to spot faint constellations, galaxies and a quartet of planets in the dawn sky.

The report adds to the growing documentation on commercial datas contributions to Earth science research and applications.

In 2014, a strange cloudy object called G2 made a close approach to Sagittarius A, (Sag A) the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers were pretty excited, partly because they thought it...

Join us April 29 at 2:00 p.m. EDT to learn more about CSDA program vendor MDA Space.

Understanding the beginning of the solar system requires us to look at some very strange places. One such place is at the so-called Trojan asteroids that share Jupiters orbit in front of and behind it. But for a long tim...

NASAs Human Research Program (HRP) uses research to develop methods to protect the health and performance of astronauts in space. In support of NASAs goalsfor long-term missionson the surface of the Moon and human explor...

The size of waves on alien worlds will depend as much on the characteristics of the liquid as well as the gravity.

Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) and National Institute for Basic Biology have developed a new method to detect extraterrestrial life without relying on traditional biosignatures. By modelling how...

NASA and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)launchedtheNASA Forcewebsiteon Friday, opening applications for rolesaimed at recruiting the nations top engineers and technologists to support Americasair andspace p...

The astronauts who flew around the moon on Artemis 2 said they were confident the Orion spacecraft is ready to support future missions. The post Artemis 2 astronauts praise performance of Orion appeared first on SpaceNew...

Week in images: 13-17 April 2026 Discover our week through the lens

Were one comet down, and one to go for spring season 2026. We recently wrote about prospects for sungrazer C/2026 A1 MAPS and comet C/2025 R3 Pan-STARRS in April 2026. While the bad news is, Comet A1 MAPS disintegrated l...

The report adds to the growing documentation on commercial datas contributions to Earth science research and applications.

Scientists are working to understand exactly how these waves behave, and the team behind NASAs Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) citizen science project approaches this in a unique way: they compare the...

An observation made by NASAs SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) shows the chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromati...

Hubble images never fail to amaze.

Fast solar wind could spark geomagnetic storms tonight, pushing auroras into mid-latitudes.

Our planet rests inside a magnetic cocoon filled with plasma-but it's not always peaceful and quiet. Activity from the sun can send waves through this space, and some of those disturbances can even reach Earth, affec...

The heat shield on Artemis 2's Orion capsule appears to have held up incredibly well during its scorching downward trip through Earth's atmosphere, mission commander Reid Wiseman said.