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Rovers equipped with Radioisotope Power Systems (RPSs), aka. nuclear reactors, could effectively explore the craters in the Moon's southern polar region.

"In the inner corona, a region very difficult to observe, we saw slow solar wind gusts moving three to four times faster than expected."

It's obvious that Earth is a planet. It's obvious that the Sun is a star. But for substellar objects like brown dwarfs, it's not so clear. Researchers are using the JWST to find a stronger dividing line betwe...

Service leaders warn workforce gaps and acquisition bottlenecks could slow delivery of new tech The post Meink: Space Force must execute as budget set to surge appeared first on SpaceNews.

A pair of dwarf galaxies in the giant Virgo Cluster show what can happen when these stellar cities interact. Scientists at the University of Michigan focused the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) onto the galaxies NGC 44...

SpaceX just conducted the first full-duration static fire test with the upper stage of its 'V3' Starship, clearing a big hurdle on its path to launch, which is expected next month.

The President, the Secretary of War, and the Chief of Space Operations are all saying it: We no longer have the luxury of time. This isnt rhetoric. It is a direct response to a fundamental change in our strategic and geo...

Listen to this audio excerpt from Rebekah Tolatovicz, a mechanical technician lead supporting the Orion spacecrafts main contractor Lockheed Martin: At NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, there is a fleet of Orion spa...

NASA and Voyager Technologies have signed an order for the seventh private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than 2028 from Florida. This is the companys first selection ...

Experiments and supplies bound for the International Space Station launched on April 11 as part of the agencys Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission. As part of the approximately 11,000 pounds cargo th...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated the giant exoplanet 29 Cygni b - work that could clarify the line between planets and stars.

After achieving their record-breaking 10-day flight around the Moon, the crew of the Artemis II mission returned home on Friday, April 10th, 2026.

NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has mapped interstellar ice at an unprecedented scale. Covering regions in our Milky Way galaxy mo...

The head of the U.S. Space Force said the United States' ongoing war in Iran shows the service has become a fully "combat credible" force.

Unfortunately for science fiction fans, desert worlds outside our solar system are unlikely to host life, according to new research from the University of Washington. Scientists show that an Earth-sized planet needs at l...

From "The Matrix" to "Tron: Legacy," these sweet sci-fi soundtracks are perfect for serious audio aficionados.

Future Operating Environment and Objective Force documents outline a contested space domain and call for a combat-ready force The post Saltzman unveils blueprint for Space Forces future appeared first on SpaceNews.

An international team led by Dr. Indrani Das of Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has shown, for the first time, how infalling gas from star-forming cores gradually transitions into planet-f...

A growing mystery in astronomy is the presence of gargantuan black holes-some weighing as much as a billion suns-existing less than a billion years after the Big Bang. According to the standard theory of black hole forma...

Several senators are asking appropriators to increase funding for NASAs robotic Mars exploration efforts, fearing severe and irreversible harm if funding is not restored. The post Senators seek increased funding for NASA...

Space domain awareness has a data problem. Not a shortage of data, but a shortage of the right data, delivered at the right time, with enough autonomy to act on [] The post The Infrastructure Layer U.S. Space Superiority...

Two NASA astronauts had some fun during the ISS' capture of a robotic cargo spacecraft on April 13, pretending to hold onto it from into the station.