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History demonstrates military innovation continually rewrites the rules of combat, reshaping warfare and rendering strategies from past conflicts obsolete. The introduction of repeating rifles transformed infantry combat...

HELSINKI - A classified satellite launched by China in June is operating in a creative orbit, giving it a unique vantage point over the geostationary belt. Shijian-31 launched on a [] The post Chinas Shijian-31 satellite...

Orienspace's Gravity-1, the world's most powerful solid rocket, aced its third-ever mission on Tuesday (July 21), launching nine satellites to orbit from a ship at sea.

Astronomers discovered that a near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet that could help scientists identify more hidden comets and improve planetary defense.

Media are invited to NASAs Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, July 31, to attend a media tour and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, the agencys first new wind tunnel...

The FCC voted July 22 to push satellite operators out of more C-band spectrum for a 5G auction next year, while approving a licensing overhaul aimed at accelerating the commercial space economy. The post FCC approves swe...

Following its liftoff from Cape Canaveral on July 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) hosting the NASA-supported Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload is now en r...

NASA's next super telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, may leave nowhere to hide for black holes that violently murder and devour stars, not even cosmic noon.

The Milky Way has two disks, the thin disk where most of the stars dwell, and the thick disk, populated by much older stars. The ESA's Gaia mission showed us that the thick disk rotates more slowly than the thin disk...

Observations made with the European Southern Observatorys Very Large Telescope (ESOs VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object d...

The outgoing head of the U.S. Space Force had some stark words in his last public speech, stating that "none of us will be able to avoid the war zone" should conflict extend to space.

NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory unveiled this new look at the galaxy NGC 4736, also known as Messier 94, on June 30, 2026. Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where ...

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Description This graphic illustrates the areas of Jupiters moon Io sampled by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument aboard NASAs Juno spacecraft during two close flybys. The black overlapping lines show the instrumen...

More analysis is needed to ensure that tropical forest degeneration and regenerationare consistently reported in carbon cycle models and in national reporting, according to a study funded in part by ESA's Climate Cha...

Have astronomers observed the first exomoon, or have they spotted a weird object that could challenge the very concept of planets and moons?

Description This map represents data captured by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) aboard NASAs Juno spacecraft, indicating heat rising from just beneath the surface of Jupiters moon Io. While infrared instruments measure t...

NASAs Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiters moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically active world in the so...

NASA is supporting the Genesis Mission, a national effort to drive the use of artificial intelligence in tackling complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery. President Donald J. Trump...

Commercial space station and spacecraft developer Vast has established a new division intended to support work in national security space. The post Vast establishes division for national security projects appeared first ...

What might seem like a simple black-and-white picture of some rocks is actually the first photograph ever taken on the surface of Mars.

A commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to save NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been slowly falling toward Earth, on July 3, 2026. Over the coming weeks, LINK, bu...