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As Iceberg A-23A disintegrated, it shed meltwater that helped fuel an extensive phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean.

The Air Traffic Management and Safety (ATMS)projectdefines,validates, and transfers advanced requirements and technologies to shift air traffic management from tactical to strategic. Thischangeenablesefficient, productiv...

Craters, craters, and yet more craters: this snapshot from ESAs Mars Express is packed full of them, each as fascinating as the last.

One of Europe's two Proba-3 spacecraft suffered an anomaly last month, putting the future of the solar eclipse-creating mission in doubt.

Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. A Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft will launch in April to the orbi...

The catalog of gravitational waves "heard" by LIGO, KAGRA and Virgo has doubled with detections of spacetime ripples.

Todays Picture of the Week, taken with ESOs Very Large Telescope (VLT), seems to have captured a cosmic hawk as it spans its wings.

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.

New research reveals that when NASAs DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022, it didnt just change the motion of Dimorphos around its lar...

Eutelsat has completed the last step in a 5 billion euro ($5.8 billion) refinancing plan to refresh its OneWeb constellation and support Europes IRIS sovereign connectivity program, the French satellite operator announce...

A big restructuring of NASA's plans to land astronauts on the moon is adding missions and speeding up the timeline, but some hardware might have to be cut loose in the process.

As NASA invites the public to follow the Artemis II mission as a crew of four astronauts venture around the Moon inside the agencys Orion spacecraft, people around the world can pinpoint Orion during its journey using th...

March 6, 2026 - Washington, D.C.-The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is pleased to welcome Leolabs, the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR), and SurgeStreams. Together, these organizations str...

The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Telescope image.

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir trims the hair of fellow NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway in this March 1, 2026, image. Meir uses an electric razor attached to a vacuum that collects loose clippings to keep the stations atmosphe...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch their rotation patterns as th...

Week in images: 02-06 March 2026 Discover our week through the lens

After delivering more than 11,000 pounds of supplies, science investigations, hardware, and other cargo to the International Space Station for NASA and its international partners, the Cygnus XL spacecraft supporting Nort...

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another."

This Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 70AZ is best for observing planets and the moon.

Its tough sometimes, living with a tempestuous star. Modern human civilization and technology lives at the whim of the Sun, as it sends solar storms and punishing coronal mass ejections our way. And while we understand t...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of atomic nuclei, and they possess some of the strongest gravitational fields of any known objects, ...