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On Nov. 4, 2015, the United States Air Force launched an experimental Super Strypi rail-launched rocket carrying 13 tiny satellites, but it failed just after liftoff from Hawaii.

President Trump has declared space a frontier for all humanity, asserting America's right to develop and settle the solar system under U.S. law.

Yesterday, on November 3rd, the deputy chief designer of China's crewed space program and chief designer of the lunar exploration program (Wang Xiang) unveiled an official statement detailing its plans for a crewed m...

In an update on Oct. 23, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and other agency leaders shared the agencys path to returning Americans to the lunar surface in 2028. Agency leadership provided updates on the previously announ...

The MCUs Multiverse Saga is nearly over, but there are plenty more Marvel movies and shows on the horizon.

SETI can be more effective the more the targets in the search are refined. SETI's newest survey effort uses game theory to inform its search. It's based on the idea that other ETIs would almost certainly use the ...

How "Forrest Gump", pizza, and a massive supporting cast of furballs came together to make one of "Star Trek"'s finest hours.

New evidence from gas seeping above volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping. Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases fr...

NASA's Swift space telescope crashed back to Earth today (Nov. 4), three months after a private spacecraft was supposed to boost the observatory to a higher orbit.

NASA has successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency's Safe and Precise Land...

NASA selected three companies on Wednesday to perform work to develop Ka-band space relay capability concepts that are compatible with current missions in space, ensuring service continuity for existing spacecraft withou...

An international research project is bringing scientists closer to mapping the universe. The MeerKLASS Collaboration has reported its first measurement of the large-scale clustering of cosmic hydrogen, advancing a techni...

"It could have a strong impact not only on self-driving cars but also on drone positioning."

NASAs Inspiration Tour spread the excitement of space exploration and aeronautical innovation by connecting the public, industry, and academia with the people, technologies, and organizations that drive American leadersh...

For a long time, planetary scientists thought that giant impacts drove a young planet's atmosphere away into space with all the heat they generated. But it turns out the opposite could be true. The mass a young plane...

When astronomers looked at photos of the early universe taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, they found something odd: an overabundance of bright galaxies. Based on what they knew about the early universe, such galax...

This photo released on Nov. 2, 2026, showcases NGC 4449, a dwarf irregular. Researchers using NASAs Hubble Space Telescope studied 37 nearby dwarf galaxies - small galaxies containing a few thousand to hundreds of millio...

One of NASA's premier space telescopes plunged to Earth on Wednesday, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe's biggest explosions.

Weather provided ideal conditions for enhanced ozone depletion

Over 1,400 students gathered in Hawaii recently to learn about astronomy as part of the annual Journey Through the Universe program.

Researchers have created a model lifeless Earth that couples the atmosphere with interior planetary processes. The model can reproduce Earth's modern habitable state without including life, showing that a planet that...

The U.K. startup Shield Space is racing to apply the lessons of drone warfare in Ukraine to develop swarms of up to 100 autonomous, satellite-defending cubesats.