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Pentagon acquisition reforms and the prospect of a budget surge are colliding with a thinned civilian workforce The post Space Forces acquisition arm races to rebuild contracting workforce after civilian cuts appeared fi...

Rocket Lab's first Neutron rocket buckled under pressure when its main stage tank ruptured during an overnight test in Wallops, Virginia.

NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Friday, Jan. 30, from the agencys Johnson Space Center in Houston. At 11 a.m. EST, mis...

NASA has selected ADNET Systems, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, to provide global modeling and data assimilation support at the agencys Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Global Modeling and Assimilatio...

NASA has selected 34 global volunteers to track the Orion spacecraft during the crewed Artemis II missions journey around the Moon. The Artemis II test flight will launch NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, carrying ...

Artemis 2 is at the launch pad, but several big tests must be performed before it launches as soon as Feb. 6.

The earliest galaxies in the universe earned the nickname "monster galaxies" for good reason, they formed stars at rates hundreds of times faster than the Milky Way, growing rapidly after the dawn of time. Astron...

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool that brings impossibly distant galaxies into reach. The JWST uses galaxy clusters and their overpowering to magnify background galaxies that are otherwise beyond our observational...

Blue Origin will use a flight-proven booster on the next launch of its New Glenn rocket. The liftoff, which is targeted for late February, will be just the third for New Glenn to date.

A green and red aurora streams across Earths horizon above the city lights of Europe in this Jan. 19, 2026, photograph, which looks north across Italy toward Germany. The International Space Station was orbiting 262 mile...

Learn how to spot Sirius, Procyon and their canine constellations, and discover the myths and science behind the dog stars.

A new NASA study of its Apollo lunar soils clarifies the Moons record of meteorite impacts and timing of water delivery. These findings place upper bounds on how much water meteorites could have supplied later in Earths ...

Like a recording artist who has had a long career,NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatoryhas a back catalog of cosmic recordings that is impossible to replicate. To access these X-ray tracks, or observations, the ultimate compen...

Florida-based Space Beyond plans to start building its first memorial spacecraft next week after booking a launch on SpaceXs October 2027 rideshare mission. The post Space Beyond lines up 2027 SpaceX launch for low-cost ...

The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different.

'For the look of the Athena, our ship has wings, and that was very intentional.'

106th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting, January 25 - 29, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #323) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, JANUARY 26 6:05 - 6:2...

Leaders from NASA's Johnson Space Center and NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins helped turn a Texans home game into a pop-up space expo.

Here's why a pair of binoculars is your best option for stargazing as a beginner.

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASAs Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this zone, revealing star...

Commercial space station developer Vast has hired another former NASA astronaut as the company delays the launch of its first station. The post Former astronaut joins Vast as Haven-1 moves into integration appeared first...

NASA successfully conducted a hot fire of RS-25 engine No. 2063 on Jan. 22 at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASAs Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, clearing the way for the engine to be installed for t...