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Everything from the gold in your smart phone to the calcium in your bones was originally created in a star. But for a long time there has been a question about the levels of one particular element - strontium, which make...

Students in Cornells Space Systems Design Studio havepublished results from two lightsail experiments (Alpha CubeSat and Sailing to the Stars) built by engineering students at Cornell University.

Galaxies are like snowflakes, no two exactly alike, even the spirals. The Hubble Space Telescope did a visual dive into the distant spiral NGC 4693 and found some intriguing hints to its past. For one thing, this member ...

SpaceX sent its Starship super-rocket on its first orbital flight - a shorter-than-planned test mission that put operational Starlink satellites into orbit for the first time.

On Monday, NASA and Boeing provided an update on the companys Starliner spacecraft, including adding additional crew missions and certifying a new rocket for crew transportation to low Earth orbit. We are living through ...

On Sept. 30, 1946, five National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) engineers arrived at Muroc Army Airfield in Californias high desert to achieve supersonic flight for the first time. In less than two years, NACA ...

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has shown for the first time that it can detect the faint glow of hydrogen gas from deep in the universe's past using only its own data.

Something deep inside Mars has scientists looking for clues to its internal evolution. A team at the University of Arizona led by Alexander Byrne, used a technique called "tidal tomography" to probe a heat anomal...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have rewritten a small part of Oklahoma's geologic history with global implications for ancient life. Below the surface of the small town of Ames, Oklahoma, a meteor i...

The European Space Agencys Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) skimmed the very outer edge of Earths atmosphere on 28 September, using the gravity of our home planet to alter its route to Jupiter using very little fuel.

Both stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes can produce ionized jets streaming from their poles. Stellar-mass black holes consume the material of companion stars, while supermassive black holes rip stars a...

Marking a significant expansion in the number of signatories to the Artemis Accords, NASA welcomed Albania, Croatia, Côte dIvoire, and San Marino, bringing total participation to 76 countries. Our momentum reflects a gr...

Editors Note: This advisory was updated on Sept. 28, 2026, with ticketing information for the public. The four astronauts of NASAs Artemis II mission will participate in an event hosted by industry and community partners...

Four crew members are set to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASAs SpaceX Crew-13 mission to perform research, technology demonstrations, and maintenance aboard the orbiting laboratory.

This nighttime view of the United States, dotted with city lights looking toward New York City (center), was taken at approximately 3:40 a.m. local time on Sept. 8, 2026, from the International Space Station as it orbite...

ORLANDO, FL - September 28th, 2026 - Space is rapidly becoming a practical business tool for industries far beyond aerospace, as satellite intelligence, resilient connectivity and other space-enabled technologies create ...

The NASA ORBIT (Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology for the Workforce) Challenge invites university and community college students nationwide to work with real NASA intellectual property and m...

Astronomers have cataloged billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets orbiting stars. We can also map where galaxies sit and trace how the universe changes over time.

As we prepare to return to the Moon, Europes leading geology training for astronauts PANGAEA celebrates its 10th anniversary turning extraordinary places on Earth into classrooms for space exploration.

The moon no longer has a global magnetic field, but lunar rocks and soils still contain records of ancient magnetism. Studying the magnetic minerals in these samples can help scientists understand how the moon's magn...

Kristie Foster paved her road to becoming a NASA civil servant with literal miles of dedication. Her work at the agencys Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, supports NASAs mission to return American ast...

Theres a once-in-a-millennia astronomical opportunity coming up in about three years, and space agencies are rushing to make sure theyre ready for it. On Friday April 13th, 2029, the asteroid 99942 Apophis will fly withi...