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Description NASAs Perseverance rover appears as a green speck on the Martian surface on June 13, 2026, a day before the robotic explorer marked a distance milestone, having traveled a full marathon (26.2 miles, or 42.195...

When Jase found out about Walmart's lowest-ever price tag for one of our favorite cameras for astrophotography, we almost didn't share it with them.

WASHINGTON - Vantor has chosen BAE Systems to build its next generation of high-resolution imaging satellites. The selection reunites Vantor with the former Ball Aerospace business that helped develop DigitalGlobes [] Th...

NASA's plan to return astronauts to the moon and bolster a rapidly growing commercial space industry is facing an infrastructure obstacle.

Sevenweeksafterthe Orion spacecraftreturnedfourastronauts fromhumanitysfirst crewed journey around the Moon since Apollo,Artemis IIOrion Vehicle Manager Branelle Rodriguez reflected on the missions achievements and howit...

After terminating $1.7 billion contract, Space Force to relaunch SCAR The post Space Force seeks fresh bidders for satellite-control antennas appeared first on SpaceNews.

Scientists have detected the "fingerprints" of a black hole's event horizon-the boundary from which nothing can escape-for the first time, according to research published Wednesday.

Lea esta nota de prensa en inglés aquí. El administrador de la NASA, Jared Isaacman, ofrecerá una conversación virtual el martes 30 de junio a las 2:30 p.m. EDT (hora del este) para compartir las novedades más recie...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host a virtual conversation at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 30, to share updates to NASAs plans to build a Moon Base on the lunar surface. Administrator Isaacman and Carlos García-...

An international collaboration has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever detected: rare "super-puff" planets with densities lower than candy floss. The study-led by the University of Oxford, in ...

The ESA's dark universe detective spacecraft Euclid, has studied the heart of the Milky Way, creating the largest and most detailed photo of this region ever made.

Life on Earth took a long evolutionary journey that eventually created us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates the planet. But there was no grand plan or design, only happenstance, nature and luck. Life on...

'I feel like we were encouraged to fail in the best way possible, where we never felt any idea was too crazy for this team.'

MDA Space will build a radar imaging satellite for the Canadian Space Agency as the government studies options for a next-generation satellite system. The post MDA Space wins contract for Radarsat replenishment satellite...

The JWST looked back in time and saw 6 galaxies merging into one. At the heart of the assembly, a supermassive black hole is lurking. It all happened when the Universe was only about 1.5 billion years old, and the red-sh...

A new look at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy by Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, overlaps with a region scientists will observe with NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope,...

A new look at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy by Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, overlaps with a region scientists will observe with NASAs Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, laun...

In September 2025, NASA announced that its Perseverance rover had discovered a potential biosignature, which is a substance or structure that might have a biological origin. A new paper, published in Science Advances, un...

"Measurements of two mudstones show hundreds of organic detections, making this the most robust organic detection in Jezero crater."

A University of Iowa-led physics team has detailed the extreme expansion of a magnetic cloud that originated from a huge, gaseous explosion on the sun. In a new study, the researchers describe the inflated magnetic cloud...

In this photo from June 21, 2026, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard NASA's Pegasus barge. After offloading and transportation to the space...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch two dozen Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight (June 24), and you can watch it live.