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Just a few hours before the Orion spacecraft crossed the sky en route to the moon on April 1, mechatronics engineer Rodrigo Trevisan Okamoto received confirmation he had been waiting for since the Artemis 2 mission was a...

The US Government has released a new trove of documents on cases of "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAPs)-many of which would have been described in the past as unidentified flying objects or UFOs-including p...

NASA plans to fly the Space Launch System on Artemis 3 without an upper stage as the agency begins to define revised plans for the mission.

The search for life elsewhere focuses on biosignatures. These are chemicals in atmospheres that can only be attributed to life. But despite the prowess of the JWST, finding slam-dunk proof of life on other worlds is a co...

SpaceX just revealed that it's on the hunt for additional launch sites for its Starship megarocket, eyeing locations both inside and beyond the United States.

An innovative 3D printing process that advanced NASAs approach to outfitting a lunar habitat is making buildings on Earth beautiful, efficient, and strong. Instead of buildingstructureslayer by layer, Branch Technology I...

Rise, the Artemis II zero gravity indicator, is seen sitting on the dais as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen speak with congressiona...

High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may hide a superheavy secret that is the key to unlocking a 60-year-old puzzle.

The string of galaxies is just a small part of the colossal Virgo Galaxy Cluster

A mockup of Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 2 lunar lander has been assembled at the Johnson Space Center, and is ready for Artemis astronauts to come aboard to begin training.

The twinkling stars in the night sky are not just beautiful to look at. Their flickering reveals something about the varying temperatures and densities in the layers of Earth's atmosphere, which refract the light as ...

Researchers have developed a technique to analyze how black holes "ring" when they collide and merge: one of the universe's most dramatic events. When black holes merge, the collision produces a new, larger b...

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's non-canonical Superman!

NASA is moving quickly to define next years Artemis III mission in Earth orbit, a crewed flight that will test rendezvous and docking capabilities between the agencys Orion spacecraft and commercial landers from Blue Ori...

Astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) have made the first direct detection of turbulence distorting light in the interstellar medium. The findings will help scientists achieve clear...

NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date, filling in gaps from previous observations. Nearly 6,000 colored dots scattered across the image show...

Scientists are using a new technique to study incoming space debris and its effects on Earth's atmosphere.

Expedition 74 astronauts aboard the International Space Station are uncovering how bacteria that causes pneumonia can lead to long-term damage in the heart. Researchers are leveraging the space environment to observe how...

The 2026 International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) is rapidly approaching. Thousands of engineering students, representing 150 teams from 20+ countries, will converge at the Midland Spaceport (aka, the West Tex...

Brown dwarfs are notoriously difficult to find. These failed stars arent big enough to sustain nuclear fusion, and therefore arent as bright as more traditional main sequence stars. In fact, theyre nearly invisible in op...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instruments aboard ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA's Europa Clipper made unique observations of interstellar comet ...

NASAs TESS has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date