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Rockets, rovers and landers have dominated the attention of the commercial space industry as the United States focuses on sending humans back to the moon, but a handful of companies [] The post Three companies building t...

NASA and Roscosmos have agreed to continue exchanging seats between Soyuz and Crew Dragon spacecraft, but that agreement does not yet extend to Starliner. The post NASA and Roscosmos continue seat barter agreement appear...

Jessica Meir and Anil Menon completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk to install solar array mounting hardware outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026.

The NASA Science Activation Programs Cosmic Storytelling with NASA Data (CosmicDS) project, led by Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, works to bring authentic NASA data into the hands of educators and learne...

Rocket Lab launched its eighth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS on Thursday morning (Aug. 6), five weeks later than originally planned.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) has announced its 20th public data release (DR20), delivering a dramatic expansion of the Milky Way Mapper (MWM) scientific survey-the most detailed spectroscopic map yet assembled...

Description This artists concept depicts NASAs three SkyFall Mars helicopters collecting data while flying over the surface of the Red Planet. The green frequency waves emanating from the helicopters large antennas depic...

Simulations conducted by researchers at ETH Zurich suggest a strong likelihood that Venuss rift valleys are still geologically active rather than being mere relics of a bygone era, as had been previously believed. This f...

Description SkyFall ground-penetrating radar engineer Maya Román connects a coaxial cable to a test antenna in theEnvironmental Test Labs electromagnetic interference testing chamberat NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...

Understanding the formation and evolution of the centers of galaxies is one of the most intriguing challenges in astrophysics. The new study aims to unveil the physical processes that led to the formation of two striking...

As NASA sets its sights on long-term exploration of the Moon and Mars, the agency is increasing the cadence of its Artemis missions. Helping bring these plans to fruition is Tom Percy, manager of systems engineering and ...

As NASA sets its sights on long-term exploration of the Moon and Mars, the agency is increasing the cadence of its Artemis missions. Helping bring these plans to fruition is Tom Percy, manager of systems engineering and ...

Narrow jets of luminous matter may be emitted toward Earth from the nuclei of active galaxies billions of light-years away. The galaxy then appears as a point source and is called a blazar. A Polish-German team of scient...

In this episode, SpaceNews Emma Gatti leads a panel of experts to discuss Europes defense posture and the reaction to space threats. This session was recorded in May at SpaceNews [] The post How should Europes militaries...

South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter has spied the crater that a SpaceX rocket blasted out when it slammed into the moon on Wednesday morning (Aug. 5).

Deep inside super-Earths-rocky planets with masses between 1 and 10 times that of Earth-high pressure can cause familiar minerals to take forms rarely seen on Earth. Understanding more about the temperature and pressure ...

NASA astronaut Adam Fuhrmann (right, in yellow) prepares for a training flight aboard NASAs WB-57 aircraft in this July 16, 2026, photo. These high-altitude flights train the crew to work in a tight environment and opera...

Blue Origin has made considerable progress in its New Glenn anomaly investigation, tracing the problem to a faulty valve in one of the rocket's first-stage engines.

July 20 marked the 50th anniversary of one of the biggest robotic spaceflight achievements in NASAs history: the landing of the Viking 1 spacecraft on Mars. It was the first [] The post Lessons for the future of NASA Mar...

A new study analyzing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spectra of more than 1,400 galaxies suggests a surprisingly small group of "leaky" galaxies was responsible for cosmic reionization. The paper outlining...

The recent confirmation of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet called LHS 1140b has created a wave of interest within the astronomy community. The planet orbits within the habitable zone around its parent star-a red d...

A Redwire subsidiary working on space biotech and pharmaceutical applications has signed an agreement to fly microgravity research payloads on SpaceXs Starfall reentry vehicle. The post Redwire to fly dedicated Starfall ...