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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have produced the most detailed simulations ever of solar prominences. These vast clouds of cooler plasma suspended in the Sun's scorching outer atmosp...

Our Galaxy's halo of hot gas is measurably warmer on one side than the other and a team of scientists have found the culprit. The gravitational pull of the Large Magellanic Cloud is drawing the Milky Way slowly south...

Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way's spiral disk - and it's not as far out from the center of our galaxy as you might imagine.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - April 28,2026 -Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, will premiere its National Space Day educational video onFriday, May [] The post ...

More than $8 billion is requested in 2027 to field space-based systems to track both ground and airborne targets The post Pentagon budget affirms Space Force role tracking moving targets from orbit appeared first on Spac...

Theres no sign reading home sweet home in the hangar where the X59 now sits, but the sentiment is unmistakable among those tending to the quiet supersonic aircraft. Located at NASAs Armstrong Flight Research Center in Ed...

Should Pluto be a bona fide planet again? NASA is working to "revisit the discussion" on Pluto's planethood status, according to agency chief Jared Isaacman.

When we build things on wonder, it naturally opens the mind.

Shielding materials are essential in key modern industrial settings-such as spacecraft, nuclear power plants, semiconductor equipment, and advanced medical devices-to protect both equipment and personnel from electromagn...

ByEarth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center For more than 50 years, Landsathas imaged Earths land and near-shore surfaces as the satellites descend in midmorning orbit, when daily sunlight is optimal. Thats j...

Description NASAs Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree view of a region filled with low ridges called boxwork formations between Nov. 9 and Dec. 7, 2025 (the 4,714th to 4,741st Martian days, or sols, of the miss...

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SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley startup EraDrive is working with Northrop Grumman to enhance spacecraft autonomy with artificial intelligence. The teaming agreement focuses on activities aimed at accelerating design, test...

A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. On Feb. 24, for the first ...

Where exactly is the edge of the Milky Way? That question is harder to answer than one might expect. Since were inside of the galaxy itself, its obviously hard to judge the edge to begin with. But it gets even more compl...

Millions of people watched the historic launch of Artemis II and were captivated by the missions 10-day journey around the Moon as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space ...

A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. On Feb. 24, for the f...

The 570 megapixel Dark Energy Camera captured this image of the iconic Sombrero Galaxy. The galaxy has characteristics of both elliptical galaxies and spiral galaxies, and is likely the result of multiple mergers and can...

Description NASAs Curiosity Mars rover used its right navigation camera - one of two on the rovers mast, or head - to capture the images in this timelapse, which spans six years of driving. The images were snapped betwee...

Find out what deep-space objects are, what optics youll need to see them and how to plan your observing.

Astronauts Chris Williams of NASA and Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency work together in the Kibo laboratory modules Life Science Glovebox, processing genetic-material samples for the DNA Nano Therapeutics3 expe...

This eerie image shows the heat shield following splashdown.