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CosmoCube, a small satellite, will use the Moon as a shield to detect faint radio signals from the cosmic dark ages, potentially revealing how the first stars and galaxies formed.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, beginning a 30-day journey to the second Lagrange Point, where it will conduct …
SpaceX's Starship rocket achieved Earth orbit for the first time, launching from Texas and marking a milestone for future moon and Mars missions, though the flight ended with an early …
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch by 2027, and readers are debating its scientific value and cost, with some arguing that understanding the universe is essential …
NASA and Boeing have laid out a revised certification plan for Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, beginning with an uncrewed engineering flight to the International Space Station no earlier than December 2026, …
A new study in Space Weather finds that a reported 1841 train delay in Exeter, England, could not have been caused by a geomagnetic storm because the railway line did …
SpaceX is set to launch its Starship megarocket into Earth orbit for the first time, a critical test for Elon Musk's plans to reach the Moon and Mars. The upper …
Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman, who flew farther from Earth than any humans before on Artemis II, are moving to emeritus status at NASA while continuing to advise teams preparing …
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter identified the McGetchin crater, a 222-meter-wide impact feature formed in 2024, the largest newly formed crater ever discovered in the solar system. The impact also created …
SpaceX is set to launch Starship on its first orbital mission on Sept. 28, deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites and performing a deorbit burn for a splashdown in the South …
The Thirty Meter Telescope project has had a proposed site rejected, adding another obstacle to the long-delayed next-generation observatory. The decision leaves the project's future location unresolved.
SpaceX is set to launch its 14th Starship test flight on Monday, a mission that will push the vehicle through a far more demanding sequence of maneuvers than any previous …
A Philadelphia woman has won NASA's $300,000 Deep Space Food Challenge for developing a system to grow food for future Mars missions, the space agency announced.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched from Kennedy Space Center, carrying instruments designed to study type Ia supernovae and the accelerating expansion of the universe. UMBC researcher Rebekah Hounsell …
NASA's Artemis 2 mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, sending four astronauts on a roughly 10-day journey around the Moon — the first crewed lunar flyby since …
Christine Powell has assumed a leadership role at NASA's Stennis Space Center, the agency's primary rocket propulsion testing facility in Mississippi. Her appointment comes as the center supports a new …
NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov arrived at Kennedy Space Center to begin quarantine and final prelaunch preparations ahead of …
The Republic of San Marino formally signed the Artemis Accords during the Beyond Exploration Expo in Rimini, becoming the 74th nation to join the international framework for space exploration cooperation. …
Laboratory experiments show that methane-producing archaea can survive in simulated conditions matching the subsurface ocean of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, suggesting the moon's geochemistry may be more favorable for microbial …
Budget cuts and attrition at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 2025 have left the home of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with a diminished workforce, raising concerns that …
