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SAN FRANCISCO -October 26, 2026-Today, Astranis announced it has upgraded its 4th launch to a dedicated mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to launch in 2028, allowing it [] The post Astranis Upgrades Falcon 9 La...

Description This 360-degree look at Neretva Vallis withinMars Jezero Craterwas stitched together using217images acquired by the rovers Mastcam-Z on May 20, 2024, the 1,155th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. While it ...

For as long as scientists have conducted SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) experiments, parallel efforts in Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) have also been mounted. In this series, we'll t...

How living underwater can prepare humans for space missions

Description The large sunshade of NASAs Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is mounted on an assembly ring during inspections in a clean room at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in July 2026. Thesun...

Description The large sunshade of NASAs Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is inspected by a technician at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in late July. Built by Applied Aerospace in Stock...

The Lazuli Space Telescope will be the first private space telescope. It's the brainchild of Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO. It will have a 3-meter mirror (9.8 feet), larger than Hubble's 2.4-meter mirror ...

- Paris-based FLEXELL SPACE FRANCE SAS creates a local business hub in Europe- New entity to support ongoing contract and volume-production discussions with European customers, from technical reviews to supply [] The pos...

On Oct. 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan. Here's why it mattered.

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NASA has officially ended the mission of its Swift Observatory, after a private satellite failed to meet up with the aging spacecraft in orbit.

Cosmologists have another powerful simulation to work with. Lumina is the one of the largest and most detailed cosmological simulations yet and runs on the Frontier supercomputer. It's larger and more detailed than I...

Unlike the Moon, the Sun is constantly rotating from our perspective - but we still only see half of it at any given time. Since it takes 27 days to complete a full rotation, that leaves plenty of time for changes to hap...

Halloween is just round the corner, but if you hurry, you can beam down these superb Star Trek outfits, from old-school Star Trek through to The Next Generation and Discovery.

Members of the media are invited to tour a new lunar landing simulator at NASAs Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley on Thursday, Oct. 29, and Friday, Oct. 30.

Astronomers have spotted a remarkable gamma-ray burst that's a real Incredible Hulk compared to other cosmic explosions of the same type.

The magnetic environment around the Sun is a jumbled mess of chaotic fields and streams of charged particles. Recently weve been getting at least slightly better at mapping out its complexity, thanks in large part to dat...

Some of the Hubble Space Telescope's earliest observations were of the Orion Nebula. Those images showed proplyds, and subsequent observations uncovered a paradox centered on them. Given their rate of mass loss, thos...

SpaceX conducted a static-fire test with its Super Heavy boosters B22 on Sunday (Oct. 25), beginning a test campaign to ready the giant rocket for Starship's Flight Test 15.

NASA test pilot Mike Lippert poses for a photo ahead of his first time flying the agencys X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Oct. 21, 2026. The X-59 has flown numerous times since its inaugural flight in November...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a spectacular star-forming region glowing 161,000 light-years from Earth in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

NASA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding expanding cooperation in Earth observation, geospatial analytics, and advanced data technologies, supporting USDAs data moderni...