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NASA has big plans for July 4 - the 250th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence - which involves both aircraft and spacecraft.

Jupiters moon, Europa, has become high-value real estate for astrobiologists and the search for life beyond Earth. This is because the small moon, which is slightly smaller than Earths Moon, boasts a massive subsurface o...

The Northwest Earth and Space Science Pathways (NESSP) project recently concluded its 2025-2026 ROADS (Rover Observation And Discoveries in Space) from Earth to Venus National Challenge, a NASA Science Activation program...

California-based launch company Rocket Lab has inked a landmark $8 billion deal to acquire long-time satellite communications giant Iridium.

Europe's CERN physics research center bids 'Farewell' to the Large Hadron Collider, but it's actually more like 'See You Later, Accelerator!' The new, improved High-Luminosity LHC is due to make i...

After more than eight years of searching and with instruments designed to detect it, the European Space Agencys (ESA) Mars Trace Gas Orbiter has yet to find methane in the red planets atmosphere.

On September 22, 2021, the IceCube Neutrino Detector in Antarctica caught a blast of neutrinos as it passed through the solar system. These neutrinos were remarkably high-energy and came from a galaxy 11 billion light-ye...

Two cinematic geniuses united to create one of Hollywoods most arresting android movies

Two cinematic geniuses united to create one of Hollywoods most arresting android movies

For more than100years, wind tunnels at NASAs Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have helped shape the future of flight. Now, two ofNASAslongest-serving facilities - the 12-Foot Low-Speed Tunneland the 20-Foot ...

NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will fix the International Space Station's Canadarm2 during a spacewalk today (June 30), and you can watch the action live.

NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will fix the International Space Station's Canadarm2 during a spacewalk on Tuesday (June 30), and you can watch the action live.

Stellar mass black holes may not be black holes at all. Instead, they could be a type of extremely compact star called a gravastar, which mimics a black hole. This is according to theoretical phsyicists who have discover...

A new Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study based on data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered insights into why the solar wind gradually slows as it moves toward the edge of the solar system and the...

The follow-up to Astroneer isn't what veteran space explorers expected, but it might be exactly what we need.

The follow-up to Astroneer isn't what veteran space explorers expected, but it might be exactly what we need.

Northrop Grumman will launch a rocket from an airplane to save NASA's SWIFT space telescope from falling out of orbit.

Northrop Grumman will launch a rocket from an airplane to save NASA's SWIFT space telescope from falling out of orbit.

For NASA's next generation of deep-space exploration missions, spacecraft may need to refuel in Earth orbit before pushing farther into the solar system. Similar to how a gas pump needs a nozzle to fit your fuel tank...

This star's light left its surface around the same time that the U.S. was founded.

This star's light left its surface around the same time that the U.S. was founded.

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted widespread, Earth-like magmatic systems deep beneath its surface - despite the planet lacking the plate tectonics long thought neces...