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NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Test the Hidden Tech Behind Future Earthlike Planet Searches
An experimental coronagraph aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will attempt to directly capture starlight r...
How NASA Plans for Gaps in Its Earth-Observing Satellite Record
NASA Langley's NESSIE team is building planning tools to spot potential gaps in Earth-observing satellite coverage befor...
Astronomers Find a Super-Earth 25 Light-Years Away in a Habitable Zone
GJ 3378b orbits a red dwarf at a distance where liquid water could exist, making it a promising target for the next gene...
Former NASA Science Chief Thomas Zurbuchen Returns to Zurich to Boost Europe’s Space Ambitions
Thomas Zurbuchen, the Swiss physicist behind NASA’s James Webb telescope and some 130 missions, is back at ETH Zurich ar...
Russian Lawmaker Calls NASA Map With Crimea as Russian an 'Indisputable Fact'
A Russian State Duma deputy seized on a NASA livestream map that showed Crimea as Russian territory, though the same gra...
ISS Crew Rehearses Robotic Arm Moves Before Aug. 18 Antenna Spacewalk
Expedition 75 astronauts completed robotic arm simulations for a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk on Aug. 18 to swap an old...
NASA Opens 2027 Student Competition for Lunar South Pole Concepts
U.S. collegiate teams are invited to propose aerospace concepts for NASA's RASC-AL challenge, with up to 14 finalists re...
Why Mars Remains the Best Lead in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Rovers and orbiters have built a picture of an ancient, wetter Mars, but proving life existed still depends on bringing ...
NASA’s ‘Big Bang’ Power Swap Extends Voyager 2’s Science Run
Engineers shut down power-hungry hardware and switched to low-power alternatives, buying the nearly 50-year-old probe at...
How to Watch the August 12 Total Solar Eclipse Live: Official Streams and Viewing Times
A total solar eclipse crossed the Arctic and Europe on August 12, with totality in Spain, Iceland, Greenland and Russia....
Total Solar Eclipse Turns Day to Twilight Across Iceland and Spain
Millions gathered in Iceland and northern Spain for the first total solar eclipse in Western Europe in 27 years, as auth...
NASA Uses ISS Experiments to Prepare Astronauts for Moon and Mars Missions
From bone-loss countermeasures and IV-fluid generation to robotic automation and cryogenic fuel tests, NASA is using the...
NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke Retires After 30 Years and 549 Days in Space
The veteran of four missions, nine spacewalks and three crewed spacecraft generations leaves NASA after his Crew-11 flig...
NASA and ESA Crew Prepare for Aug. 18 Spacewalk to Replace ISS Antenna
Expedition 75 astronauts are completing suit checks and emergency drills ahead of a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk to rep...
Lunar Station Turns NASA Moon Data Into Mission-Planning Tools for Commercial Space
The startup's MoonHacker platform fuses NASA planetary data to model terrain, water indicators, radiation and communicat...
NASA Is Hosting a Livestream for Perseids: How to Watch the Meteor Shower
The Perseid meteor shower peaks Wednesday night with up to 100 meteors per hour. NASA will livestream the event on YouTu...
NASA’s X-59 Aims to Silence the Sonic Boom — And Unlock Supersonic Travel Over Land
A decades-old ban on commercial supersonic flight over land could be replaced by a sound-level standard, thanks to NASA’...
NASA Astronauts Complete Spacewalk, Reschedule Next After Suit Sensor Glitch
A six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk to prep a power channel for new solar arrays ended with a carbon dioxide sensor anomaly,...
NASA Opens STEM Opportunities for Students as New School Year Begins
NASA is rolling out internships, student challenges, virtual events, and citizen science projects for the 2026-2027 scho...
NASA's Perseid Meteor Shower Livestream Promises a Dark Sky Spectacle
The Perseid meteor shower peaks August 12-13 under ideal dark skies, and NASA is hosting an all-night livestream with ex...
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Earth Disappearing Behind Martian Moon Phobos
A first-of-its-kind image sequence from the surface of Mars shows Earth occulted by Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moon...
SpaceX Falcon 9 Upper Stage Strikes Moon, Creates 18-Metre Crater
NASA confirms the impact of a four-tonne Falcon 9 second stage on the lunar surface near craters Einstein and Bell, a ra...
SpaceX Rocket Stage Expected to Smash Into Moon on Wednesday
A discarded SpaceX rocket stage will strike the Moon on Wednesday, carving a crater too small for Earth telescopes but v...
NASA's Artemis III Will Dock Orion With Both SpaceX and Blue Origin Landers in 2027
NASA will use Artemis III in 2027 as an orbital rehearsal, docking Orion with lunar lander prototypes from SpaceX and Bl...
NASA Delivers Compact Navigation Payload for Intuitive Machines' Altus-1 Lunar Relay
NASA's shoebox-sized NavCube3-mini receiver will ride on Intuitive Machines' first lunar relay satellite, testing GPS-ba...
Expedition 75 Preps for Spacewalk as SpaceX Crew-13 Introduces Itself
The ISS crew is preparing for a Thursday spacewalk and researching how microgravity affects the body, while the four-mem...
NASA, SpaceX Wind Tunnel Tests Put Super Heavy V3 Re-Entry in Focus for Artemis III
NASA and SpaceX completed wind tunnel tests on the redesigned Super Heavy V3 booster, gathering re-entry aerodynamics da...
NASA's Roman Telescope to Scan 100x Hubble's View in 2026, Complementing Webb's Deep Look
Slated for launch next year, the wide-field observatory will map billions of galaxies, hunt exoplanets, and probe dark e...
NASA's First Private Satellite Lifter Spins Out of Control, Jeopardizing Swift Telescope Mission
Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft, tasked with raising the aging Swift observatory to a higher orbit, is tumbling after l...
NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Returns to Earth After 8-Month Science Mission
NASA’s Chris Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev safely returned to Earth on Sunday, ...