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The Space Force Associations National Spacepower Center is building an unclassified environment for demonstrating threats to satellites and their consequences on Earth The post Inside the effort to show Congress what war...

Vendors will compete for orders to build satellites, sensors and systems for more realistic military space exercises The post Space Force picks 15 companies for $981 million training range contract appeared first on Spac...

As companies develop large constellations of orbital data center satellites, experts say now is the time to start thinking about some critical space safety topics and rules of the road. The post Rules of the road needed ...

We just got an amazing new view of SpaceX's Starship vehicle in space, thanks to one of the company's Starlink V3 broadband satellites.

A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight Augusts skywatching. Skywatching Highlights Transcript A solar eclipse, one of the years best meteor showers, Venus at ...

Astronomers found seven rare quasar gravitational lens candidates using AI, providing a powerful new tool for studying black hole and galaxy evolution.

NASA will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 14, live from the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and media and digital creators are invited to attend in person. The announcement, held in the XLV...

JJ Abrams' new film "The End of Oak Street looks like "The Twilight Zone" meets "Jurassic Park" with a dash of "A Quiet Place." Could it be the perfect summer movie?

Converting an engineering model of a Mars rover into an actual lunar rover could cost NASA more than $1 billion, an estimate strongly rejected by the agencys administrator. The post Sending repurposed Mars rover to the m...

Summer is the ideal time to look for the Great Rift, a long series of dark dust clouds that appear to split the Milky Way from Cygnus through Sagittarius.

Flammability test results for commercial-off-the-shelf webbings that meet NASA flammability requirements are reported for use in elevated oxygen environments anticipated for future lunar and Martian missions. Testing dem...

NASA and its industry partners are preparing for next years Artemis III demonstration mission by completing new wind tunnel tests on SpaceXs Super Heavy Version 3 rocket booster. The tests, conducted at NASAs Ames Resear...

The script is flipped in Prime Video's upcoming "Blade Runner 2099" series where replicants have rebelled and seized power from human beings in a massive uprising.

Finding water on the moon may only be a matter of detecting the right vibrations.

We know Mars has water ice in its polar regions, but astronauts (and their solar-powered equipment!) would much rather experience life closer to Mars' equator. As NASA looks toward landing humans on the red planet, t...

NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, Friday, providing a critical resource for the agency and its partners to test the safety and performance of future generations of aircraft, rocke...

Twenty five years ago a star in the constellation Puppis blew itself apart and then vanished behind a curtain of its own soot. Astronomers knew only that the explosion contained no hydrogen at all, which for the most abu...

The German eROSITA consortium (eROSITA-DE), which includes the University of Bonn and is led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), has released its second major public data set, the "eROSITA...

A Tokyo-based astrobiologist is using an ingenious new way to garner insight into Earths 3.5-billion-year-old biosphere.

Before any major telescope commissioning, there are dozens of papers that attempt to define what we can expect from it. We're starting to see some come through for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which hopefully...

NASA is planning to send two maneuverable probes to lunar orbit in order to learn how spacecraft are affected by the complex gravity environment near the moon.

Video: 00:01:34 [English]: A solar eclipse is an unforgettable sight, but only if you watch it safely!ESA reserve astronaut Sara García Alonso shows you how to enjoy this incredible cosmic event using certified eclipse ...