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SAN FRANCISCO - BlackSky announced Aug. 11 a seven-figure, multiyear contract to provide an international customer with persistent space-based monitoring and on-demand satellite tasking. Prior to the award, BlackSky cond...

SpaceX started out as a launch company, but it has been transitioning into an artificial intelligence outfit -one that's poised to make huge profits in the coming years, Elon Musk says.

SpaceX started out as a launch company, but it has been transitioning into an artificial intelligence outfit -one that's poised to make huge profits in the coming years, Elon Musk says.

Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist, led a study suggesting that Europas icy shell may be a stronger barrier between the moons hidden ocean and its surface than previously thought.

Gen. Michael Guetlein says Congress must find a way to finance the next phase as most initial funding is already committed The post Golden Dome faces 2027 funding cliff appeared first on SpaceNews.

A snowflake cannot form out of nothing. Water vapour will sit in the air quite happily, supercooled and reluctant, until it finds a speck of dust to build on and then it crystallises around it. Cosmochemists have had a v...

Hunting for dark matter usually means building something enormous and burying it - a tank of liquid xenon in a mine, a magnet the size of a lorry, decades of engineering and a great deal of money. A team in Japan have ju...

This article isfor students grades 5-8. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASAs newest astrophysics observatory. The telescope will scan large sections of space. Roman will help astronomers answer questions about ...

Ask what lies inside a black hole and the honest answer has always been a bit of a shrug and something about a singularity, a point where density becomes infinite and physics stops being able to tell you anything at all....

The habitable zone concept is useful for understanding which worlds might, possibly, maybe, be habitable. It highlights exoplanets at the right distances from their stars for liquid water to potentially exist on their su...

"It's part of the fabric of astronomy research now."

Astronomers have nearly doubled the number of known cosmic X-ray sources.

NASA has declared wrenches down on the first completed payload designed for Artemis astronauts to deploy on the Moons surface. Engineers working on NASAs Lunar Environment Monitoring Station, or LEMS, have completed hard...

"I think the producers had more time to prepare for season 4 and every episode felt incredible on the page"

"I think the producers had more time to prepare for season 4 and every episode felt incredible on the page"

Scientists found a Martian meteorite on Earth that is finally filling in a nearly 2-billion-year-old geology-history gap on the Red Planet.

Pentagon contractors are beginning to book Golden Dome related work, but much of it is flowing through established programs The post Golden Dome money starting to reach contractors, but long-term funding still unclear ap...

Observing across the starry plains of space, NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has taken new images of NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula. The nebulas mane is clear and detailed in this image released on Aug. 10, 2026, d...

Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous star-forming nebula from NASA's space telescopes. The resulting cosmic "craft" reveals new deta...

SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast today (Aug. 11).

SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast today (Aug. 11).

Exoplanets need to be habitable for a long time for complex life to develop. To sustain habitability, exoplanets need to retain their atmospheres. But many exoplanets are exposed to extreme ultraviolet light and coronal ...