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An M5.7 solar flare triggered radio blackouts over the Atlantic.

The software, developed by SkyFi, operates on tactical Android devices

Cowboy Space, which emerged from stealth less than two years ago as Aetherflux to develop space-based solar power, has raised $275 million at a $2 billion valuation to build rockets with upper stages that would serve as ...

The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there's a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical. One variable o...

Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.

A new study by planetary scientists at Harvard offers an explanation for one of Earths great climate puzzles: how the Sturtian glaciation, an ancient ice age when the planet was nearly entirely frozen, could have lasted ...

NASA plans to continue exchanging International Space Station crews about every six months after considering longer stays.

Nicholas Houghton always dreamed of working at NASA and one day becoming an astronaut. Today, he helps design systems that keep crews safe during missions aboard NASAs Orion spacecraft, including the successful Artemis I...

A new international scientific study by the Hellenic Space Center (HSC) has identified some of the most promising candidate cryovolcanic regions on Ganymede, Jupiters largest moon. These regions represent important targe...

With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks like a stack of flattened silver and gold soda cans bundled together, into the air and lower it into a rectangular cart on wheels. A ta...

NASAwill hold its2026LunaboticsChallengeTuesday,May 19, to Thursday, May21,at theAstronauts Memorial Foundations Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complexin Florida. Links to view the Lunabot...

Dury captured shooting stars glowing with the Milky Way from the remote Scottish Island of Skye.

The Optical Guidelines document provides standardized, transparent, and repeatable process for assessing the quality of optical data from commercial Earth Observation missions.

Fresh satellite images reveal volcanic heat melting snow around Russia's relentless Shiveluch volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

By the 1960s, two major contributions were made to the field of SETI, both of which considered how more advanced civilizations could be found based on the types of structures they might build and the levels of energy the...

In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with BlackSkys Lyn Chassagne about AIs role in the imagery sector, how international partners are thinking about sovereignty and the quest [] The post BlackSkys Lyn Chassa...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking for on other planets or moons? A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, suggests that the m...

The Tianzhou 10 freighter delivered nearly seven tons of supplies to China's Tiangong space station early Monday morning (May 10), about five hours after launching atop a Long March 7 rocket.

WARSAW, Poland - Polish space technology company Creotech Instruments has announced plans for a $118 million fundraise that will allow the company to open a new satellite production facility in Poland by 2029 as part of ...

The Department of Defense has released a fresh batch of images and transcripts relating to reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, formerly known as UFOs, including pictures and descriptions from NASA's Apollo m...

The astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis 2 mission that flew around the moon had to learn to describe their observations using language that would help lunar scientists gain a deeper understanding of the lunar environmen...

The Milky Way's galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for decades with num...