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While leaks in a Russian section of the International Space Station have stopped, engineers still dont understand how the cracks formed. The post ISS module cracking still unresolved despite stopping air leaks appeared f...

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Listen to this audio excerpt from Ryan Schulte, Orion flywheel project manager: AsthefourArtemis IIastronautstraveled ona694,481-mile journey around the Moon and back,the Orion spacecraftprovided them with all the essent...

Under SBIR contracts from the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, companies will develop payloads capable of detecting emissions from ground-based radars that track U.S. satellites The post Space Force selects firms to buil...

Description A scientist produced this map of land subsidence (sinking) in Mexico City using data from the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission captured between Oct. 25, 2025, and Jan. 17, 2026. The region h...

Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Friday, April 24, 2026 There was excitement in the air as the Curiosity Science Team kicked off a ...

Binary stars are common, but for a long time astronomers have thought that exoplanets would have trouble forming around them. In recent years, powerful telescopes have detected about 50 of these planets. Now, new simulat...

President Trump hosted the Artemis 2 moon astronauts at the White House today (April 29), congratulating the quartet and musing about the possibility of going to space himself.

One of the most powerful radar systems ever launched into space has mapped the ground moving beneath one of fastest subsiding capitals in the world: Mexico City. The findings show how quickly and reliably the NISAR (NASA...

One of the most intriguing puzzles in cosmology is the existence of supermassive black holes that seem to appear very early in the history of the Universe. Astronomers keep finding them at times when, by all that they un...

Understanding how to explore hidden glaciers on Mars begins not in a laboratory, but in remote field camps across Alaska and Wyoming.

Finding X-rays coming from one of the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the key to answering what these weird objects truly are.

It has been a dream of astronomers and solar scientists for ages. A new mission gives solar researchers a powerful new tool in their arsenal: on-demand, total solar eclipses. Launched in 2024, The European Space Agencys ...

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket will launch 32 of Amazon's broadband-beaming satellites early Thursday morning (April 30), and you can watch it live.

Every star that has ever lived has been slowly spinning down, losing rotational energy across billions of years until, at the end, it collapses. But new research from Kyoto University has revealed that the story is far s...

Stars are not born by chance. New research shows that the mass of a star cluster dictates exactly what kinds of stars it will produce from cool, dim dwarfs to blazing stellar giants ten times the mass of our Sun. It is a...

Astronauts take time to adjust how firmly they grip and handle objects when moving between Earth and space, because the brain continues making predictions based on whichever gravitational environment it has most recently...

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A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this NASAHubble Space Telescopeimage from April 13, 2026. IC 486 lies right on the edge of the co...

A spent Falcon 9 stage used to launch a pair of commercial lunar landers is projected to impact the moon Aug. 5, according to astronomers. The post Falcon 9 rocket stage projected to impact moons near side in August appe...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched the third and final terabit-class ViaSat-3 broadband satellite toward geostationary orbit April 29, putting Viasat on course to finish a constellation more than a decade in the making. The ...

NASA and Boeing have completed wind tunnel testing to study an innovative advanced aircraft design intended to improve aerodynamic efficiency. A truss-braced wing configuration, involving a long, thin wing with aerodynam...