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Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors.

NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 22, which includes commemorating the crews of Apollo 1 and the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. The event is traditionally held every year on the f...

Newly developing stars shrouded in thick dust get their first baby pictures in these images from NASAs Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble took these infant star snapshots in an effort to learn how massive stars form. Protost...

"I don't think anyone's made this connection between the surface fluid pattern and the interior properties of these planets."

After 27 years of service, NASA astronaut Suni Williams retired from the agency, effective Dec. 27, 2025. Williams completed three missions aboard the International Space Station, setting numerous human spaceflight recor...

NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations that will strengthen humanitys understanding and exploration of the Moon. As part of the agencys CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiativ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Jan. 15, 2026 - Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, today announced it will host Innovate Space: Finance [] The post Space Foundatio...

NASAs Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECIs NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced ch...

Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the space tourism mission live.

The Ring Nebula is a well-studied planetary nebula about 2,570 light-years away. Nnew observations of the nebula with a new instrument have revealed a previously unseen component. The William Herschel Telescope used its ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing their thick atmospheres.

When NASAs SLS (Space Launch System) rocket launches the agencys Artemis II mission to the Moon, four CubeSats, or small satellites, will be hitching a ride inside the rockets Orion stage adapter (OSA). All four Artemis ...

The total solar eclipse on Nov. 25, 2030, will mainly cross the Indian Ocean, but views will be possible from Australia, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Lesotho.

When the six tiny spacecraft of NASA's SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) mission settle into their orbits high above Earth after launching later this year, they'll function as one giant radio di...

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine tonight as Earth reels from a colossal CME impact.

Image: Helix Nebula (NIRCam image)

Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 - powerful for satellites and astronauts, but harmless on the ground.

A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new image from NASAsHubble Space Telescope. To the left, an actively forming star called a protostar ...

The USs federally funded space program has been struggling of late. With the recent cancellation of the Mars Sample Return mission, and mass layoffs / resignations taking place at NASA, the general sense of a lack of mor...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, appearing in Nature Astronom...

Research conducted by an international team of astronomers from Southwest Research Institute, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences in India and the Max Planck Institute in Germany could help predict up...

Image: This image, captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 18 January 2026, shows clouds of smoke from wildfires on the coast of Chile.