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Aurora chasers, keep your eyes on the skies later this week as an incoming coronal mass ejection could spark favorable conditions for widespread northern lights displays.

Before you ever set foot on a spacecraft bound for deep space, tiny replicas of your organs might make the journey first. Suspended in microgravity aboard a research mission, this organ-on-a-chip, or tissue chip, enginee...

New structure gives Portfolio Acquisition Executives authority over funding, requirements and integration across major space missions The post Space Force overhauls buying structure with new mission portfolios appeared f...

The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.

NASAs X-59 experimentalaircraftis preparing for its second flight, a step that will set the pace for more flight testing in 2026. Over the coming months, NASA will take the quiet supersonic jet faster and higher, whileva...

The Trump administration has not yet decided whether to charge for space safety data despite a change in space policy enabling the government to do so. The post Office of Space Commerce weighing options for TraCSS user f...

Paul Atreides' kids, a Duncan Idaho comeback (kinda), and Robert Pattinson's creepy new role.

Cancer the Crab is a dim constellation, yet it contains one of the most beautiful and easy-to-spot star clusters in our sky: the Beehive Cluster. Cancer also possesses one of the most studied exoplanets: the superhot sup...

The industrys supply network, built for smaller volumes and slower production cycles, is struggling to keep pace. The post Space boom strains supply chain, industry report warns appeared first on SpaceNews.

Guetlein: We were asked to procure some additional space capabilities The post Golden Dome cost estimate rises to $185 billion as Pentagon expands space layer appeared first on SpaceNews.

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil.

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How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by the University of Bern, with the participation of ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich and the ...

Stuttgart, Germany - Marc. 17, 2026 - ISPTech, a German space technology company developing propulsion systems for agile in-orbit maneuvering, announced it has raised €5.5 million in seed funding to [] The post ISPTech...

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets on March 17, each carrying Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. The company now has more than 10,000 active satellites in its constellation.

No major meteor showers are active at this time.

Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots-dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense magnetic activity and often trigger solar eruptions-appear at mid-latitudes and migrate tow...

The dust storm created travel complications and other issues for Texans.

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier observations fr...

These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu. They show the most common types of crack networks observed in Bennu samples; these networks solved a myster...

A suspected meteor that fell over the Cleveland area on Tuesday shook homes and startled residents who heard a boom that some compared to an explosion.

NASA has pushed the rollout of its next moon rocket to March 20, but is still targeting April 1 for the launch of its first crewed mission to the moon in more than half a century.