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Blue Origin has started rebuilding a launch pad severely damaged in a New Glenn explosion less than three weeks ago as it works to resume launches by years end The post Blue Origin begins rebuilding New Glenn pad appeare...

The company plans to deliver a fuel-transfer vehicle to the U.S. Space Force by 2028 The post Quantum Space wins Pentagon contract to develop orbital refueling spacecraft appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earths atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction capabilities for impacts on crucial technology, such as GPS ...

A small lump of rock pulled up from the Pacific Ocean seafloor in 1976 is giving scientists new clues about an ancient cosmic event. More than a hundred million years ago, two neutron stars collided. The resulting energe...

NASA has selected eight new companies and will acquire new data products from six existing Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition contract holders to expand the range of commercial satellite data available to researchers,...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that one of the coldest exoplanets ever discovered, the so-called Pink Planet, harbors a salty surprise.

Private equity firm EQT is acquiring Exolaunch, a company that has handled the rideshare launches of hundreds of satellites, to help it meet growing launch demand. The post EQT to acquire Exolaunch appeared first on Spac...

Rohit Goeptar was born into a poor family in Suriname, South America,the kind where both parents work three jobs and they still can only provide food and shelter for their family. At around age six, his family moved to C...

Switch off fusion and, for ten thousand years, nothing happens. Then the Sun begins a slow, strange death: shrinking, briefly brightening, and coasting on gravitational heat for tens of millions of years. And the neutrin...

Description A prototype four-wheel rover developed at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory with advanced mobility and robotic autonomy capabilities trundled across the Colorado Desert near Plaster City, California, during a f...

Sending a spacecraft to the underexplored planet Uranus is at the top of many planetary scientists' wish lists. But which spacecraft-mounted instruments would be most useful for answering questions about the mysterio...

On a bleak stretch of the Colorado Desert in Southern California, a compact four-wheeled rover recently trundled about 16 miles (26 kilometers) with minimal intervention from the team of engineers trailing it. Called ERN...

Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASAs Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid to be a wobbly, peanut-shaped body that has undergone a lot of activity in i...

Kelly Hammetts departure comes as the Space Rapid Capabilities Office is being realigned under the Space Force The post Space Forces rapid acquisition office director moves to Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center appeared fi...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists studying the inner main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson have found that its rotation wobbles. Rather than rolling through space in a steady pattern, Donaldjohanson turns on two...

Video: 00:02:03 Sophie is halfway through the psilon mission onboard the ISS, and she has already accomplished so much. Between hundreds of hours of scientific research and thousands of photographs taken from space, she ...

SpaceX will launch the latest batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government early Friday morning (June 19), and you can watch the action live.

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each other. The first star's detonation sent its binary companio...

The Fujinon Techno-Stabi TS-L 1640 image-stabilized binoculars are perfect for steady stargazing with 16x magnification, 40mm objective lenses and strong image stabilization, on sale for $1,125 at Walmart.

Finding life beyond our solar system is a major goal of modern astronomy. NASA's planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to take direct images of Earth-sized planets around stars other than our sun. This task...

This image, captured by NASAs James Webb Space Telescope and released on June 5, 2026, shows just a small portion of one of the Orion Molecular Clouds, a long and massive filament of cold gas and dust beyond the Orion Ne...

Millions of light-years away, millions of years ago, a star exploded. In this violent process, it ejected incredible amounts of mass, including carbon, nitrogen and oxygen-the building blocks of life. In fact, the star m...