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NASA has selected seven companies to provide construction, revitalization, and infrastructure improvements at the agencys Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Johnson Space Center Multiple Award Construction Contract sup...

NASA will host a public event featuring three crew members from the agencys SpaceX Crew-11 mission at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, June 1. The event, which takes place during the crews standard postflight visit, will be held in t...

Bundle up for our frigid trek behind the Iron Curtain in this new 'For All Mankind' spinoff

Prepare for a spectacular sight, as the second full moon of May meets the red star Antares this weekend.

Stories of NASA and Apollo have passed into folklore, but the equivalent stories from the other side of the Iron Curtain have often been shrouded in secrecy.

Video: 00:04:15 What did space deliver for Europe this month? From asteroid flybys to Mars landing tests, new discoveries from Webb and Hubble, and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot capturing shooting stars from orbit, heres y...

The low-orbit satellite constellation is intended to track aircraft, cruise missiles and other airborne threats The post Space Force awards SpaceX $4.16 billion to build satellite network for airborne target tracking app...

The Sun has a heartbeat. Every eleven years it swells with magnetic fury, hurling solar flares and charged particles into space, sparking auroral displays and threatening power grids, all before quietening down again. We...

Engineers at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key element for the agencys Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the primary mirror. This 7.9-foot (2.4-mete...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is poised to launch 29 Amazon Leo internet satellites to orbit on Friday night (May 28).

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COMSO chief Col. Tim Trimailo says transparency, patience and a clear military value proposition matter as much as technical innovation The post Space Forces commercial gatekeeper offers a playbook for startups seeking d...

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket exploded during testing Thursday night, May 28, blasting flames and debris high into the sky in a display visible across wide swaths of Florida.

Even the satellites are seeing red.

South Korean optical payload developer TelePIX and Indian propulsion specialist Bellatrix Aerospace have teamed up on a very low Earth orbit geospatial demonstration mission slated for 2028. The post Bellatrix and TelePI...

Maverick director Nicolas Roeg delivered a surreal sci-fi classic in 1976 that still resonates today.

When it comes to understanding Earth and our changing environment, space is the place. Not only does it give us an overall holistic view of the planet below, but satellite-based imagery can transcend national boundaries ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is assessing damage to its launch pad after a rocket exploded during a test firing, creating a giant orange fireball seen and felt for miles around.

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets.

We are in the geospatial era of warfare in which information derived from satellites is as strategically critical as territorial control. The progressive dissolution of the distinction between the civil [] The post Spati...

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after spending nearly seven months in space, setting a record for the longest on-orbit stay by a Chinese crew.

Past research has indicated Mars's largest northern basin, Utopia Planitia, was once the location of a large body of water, but details surrounding when this body of water may have existed have not been resolved. Res...