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Stargazers can observe the Apollo 11 landing site, the Eagle Nebula, and a blue-white star as part of night sky events marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.
A Government Accountability Office report highlights growing costs for missile-warning satellites, digital engineering gaps, and workforce reductions that could slow national security launches for the U.S. Space Force.
A stunning new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures infant stars erupting in a display of cosmic fireworks, offering insights into the early stages of stellar formation.
A Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to reboost NASA’s Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, extending its operational life. The flight is likely the …
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot published a timelapse of the most spectacular aurora observed so far during the Epsilon mission, capturing a glowing green ribbon of light from orbit.
A private spacecraft successfully intercepted another in orbit during the U.S. Space Force's 'Victus Haze' mission, demonstrating rapid rendezvous and proximity operations for national security.
A team led by Sandia National Laboratories used infrasound and seismic data from Alaska's dense monitoring network to reconstruct the trajectory of a bright fireball that went undetected by optical …
A new study from Chinese researchers proposes a two-phase nuclear deflection method that could alter the trajectory of a kilometer-sized asteroid with as little as 60 days of warning, offering …
NASA's Artemis 2 crew marked the United States' 250th anniversary with a special tribute, highlighting the mission's role in lunar exploration and national pride.
A key component of the Artemis 3 lunar landing system, resembling a classic flying saucer, has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, marking a major milestone for the mission scheduled …
Isar Aerospace has secured a contract to launch a German-built imaging satellite for Planet's subsidiary, marking a milestone for Germany's domestic space capabilities.
A fossil collected on an Antarctic island over 40 years ago has been identified as the tail vertebra of a titanosaurian sauropod, dating back 83 million years and rewriting the …
SpaceX launched 24 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, continuing the expansion of its broadband internet constellation.
Verde Technologies is shifting its focus from rooftop solar panels to space-based applications for its perovskite thin-film technology, aiming to power orbital data centers and large satellite constellations.
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a distant exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf, offering a glimpse into the possible future of our solar system after the Sun’s death.
The European Space Agency has contracted Spanish company EMXYS to build Don Quijote, a shoebox-sized CubeSat that will be deployed onto the Apophis asteroid by the Ramses mission before its …
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched 29 Amazon Project Kuiper broadband satellites into low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, marking the final Atlas V mission dedicated …
A private rocket mission aims to boost NASA's Swift telescope before its orbit decays, extending its hunt for gamma-ray bursts.
Researchers are outlining the feasibility of a human mission to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, citing its dense atmosphere and liquid methane lakes as potential resources for exploration.
An Italian-led survey to conduct the first complete census of stars in key globular clusters has been selected as one of five General Astrophysics Surveys for the first cycle of …
