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Earlier this month, a discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage crashed into the lunar surface at 8,700 kilometers per hour. This was not a controlled landing. The stage had been [] The post A rocket crashed into the moon. I...

By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 7, 2026 This week was very special for the Curiosity team here on Earth as we celebrated the 14th la...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of NGC 2392 (also known as the Lion Nebula), which Hubble previously imaged in 2000.

Black holes aren't just engines of inexorable destruction. They're complex regions of space and time, and under the right conditions, giant planets can form in their AGN disks.

JOHANNESBURG - The European Union has sanctioned the head of a Roscosmos subsidiary developing a synthetic aperture radar satellite system for the Russian military. The sanctions are part of what [] The post New EU sanct...

Engineers developed a unique fabric-based design for a ground-penetrating radar that will be a key instrument on NASAs SkyFall Mars helicopters. The hardware will enable the SkyFall missions trio of planetary rotorcraft ...

The Milky Way has a secret history of galaxy mergers that we are only now starting to uncover.

NASA has selected four companies to provide payload processing facilities under the Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract onramp provision. The provision enables qualified providers to offer commercial payload proces...

China's space program has returned to flight after an Aug. 10 Long March 7A rocket explosion, launching both a Long March 12 and a Long March 2C rocket on Sunday (Aug. 16).

Little red dots have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in JWST data from the Universes deep past. Their powering engines might resemble a newly discovered phenomenon dubbed a black hole star-an early, rapidly gro...

A NASA-funded air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the role of black carbon, or soot produced by fires, diesel vehicles, and other combustion sources, in Ethiopias...

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky...

A composite image of data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Kitt Peak four-meter telescope and MOTHRA reveal the Helix Nebula. We can see the bow shocks, particularly on the left.

Readers of a certain age will remember a golden area of asteroid films, capstoned by two with very different endings. Deep Impact engrained the devastating consequences of letting a large piece of rock hit our planet, wh...

United Launch Alliance has named Mark Peller, a longtime manager and executive at the company, as its new chief executive. The post ULA names Peller as new CEO appeared first on SpaceNews.

Data from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, and NASAs Hubble Space Telescope combine to reveal a vibrant view of 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, in this Aug. 11, 2026, image. Located...

Video: 01:10:42 We broadcast live from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre in Spain as a total solar eclipse crossed Europe on 12 August 2026.The path of totality swept across Greenland, Iceland, Spain and a smal...

Our first look at 'Star Wars: Ahsoka' season 2 promises huge space battles, Clone Wars flashbacks, and a lot more Anakin Skywalker.

As NASA prepares toestablishtheMoon Base,advancing surface mobility will be key to helping crews and robotic systems travel farther acrossthe lunar surface. To help advance that capability, theRock and Roll with NASA Cha...

New Hubble data shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way in the earliest phases of its evolution.

A greedy galaxy that existed less than 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang is hoarding supermassive black holes.

Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than we've ever recorded. Studying the world's oldest trees suggests we could soon be due one of these gargantuan events.