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Policy documents from both the White House and the Office of Space Commerce this summer acknowledge that space is a complex system, as to which forms of adaptive governance should [] The post The COSMOSIS framework can e...

A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what happened in the roughly 150 million years of cosmic dark ages, before the un...

A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what happened in the roughly 150 million years of cosmic dark ages, before the un...

The United States is updating its approach to managing spaceflights and reentries, with the goal of expanding the nation's capabilities to support more than 1,000 rocket launches per year by 2030.

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Long-period Radio Transients are sources that emit repeating radio and x-ray signals. The signals are polarized and coherent, and are similar to pulsars in some respects. But the type of astrophysical object responsible ...

Paris, France | August 2026- More than 6,500 Earth observation (EO) satellites are expected to launch by 2035, generating $155.9 billion in manufacturing revenues as governments expand sovereign intelligence, surveillanc...

The NASA astronauts who flew around the moon on the Artemis II mission will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor next Friday (Aug. 28).

On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse darkened skies over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain. As the Moon covered the Sun, it briefly revealed the Suns wispy outer atmosphere - the corona - to those in the path of totality who we...

For more information, contact Mark K. Leader, Glenn Research Center, [email protected] Download the PDF version NASAs Chemical Equilibrium with Applications (CEA) code is a foundational tool for propulsion system anal...

NASAs James Webb Space Telescope captured this Aug. 6, 2026, infrared image of part of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region also home to the Cosmic Cliffs. This feature, called the Treasure Chest, is an object known ...

President Donald J. Trump will award each of NASAs Artemis II crew members the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at 11 a.m. EDT on Friday, Aug. 28, during a ceremony at the agencys Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA ...

SpaceX completed a single-engine test-firing of its next Starship spacecraft to prepare for its coming test flight, which will be the first to reach orbit.

SpaceX launched yet another Starlink mission today (Aug. 21), sending 29 more of the broadband satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast.

Week in images: 17-21 August 2026 Discover our week through the lens

Stars scattered across the cosmos sparkle in the appropriately named Chandelier Cluster.

On Aug. 21, 1914, a total solar eclipse temporarily darkened skies across Europe and Asia.

An international team of astrophysicists and plasma physicists has provided the first experimental evidence that strong magnetic fields surrounding active stars can completely suppress coronal mass ejections. This offers...

At the center of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole, with a mass millions to billions of times that of our sun and some of the most extreme gravity in the universe.

We'll soon get a chance to see a giant curved shadow in space move slowly across the moon during a very deep partial lunar eclipse. There are few more awesome or enlightening sights.

Europes Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has captured a dramatic change at Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a 76 sq km section of the glaciers floating ice tongue broke away on 4 August 2026.The event marks t...

New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of "dark photons," it would not have heated the early cosmos like scientists thought.