A spacecraft built to study one of Earth’s most hostile regions ended its mission with a return through the atmosphere years ...

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Following the early departure of Crew-11 in mid-January due to a medical concern, the International Space Station began February with a crew of just three. Two cosmonauts, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and ...

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The Van Allen probe, which studied how the Earth is protected from harmful space radiation, could fall to Earth tonight. Here’s what to know ...

NASA's DART mission launched from California changed not just the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit, but the larger Didymos' path around the sun.

SpaceX’s expanding Starlink constellation, now cleared by regulators for thousands of additional satellites, is drawing attention from researchers and entrepreneurs who see the infrastructure as a ...

How a new startup plans to power satellites with lasers. A new class of ultrafast AI chips also uses lasers. And startup Axiomatic AI is building better AI models for science and engineering.

On the steps of the U.S. Capitol on a balmy October morning, a crowd of people sporting “Save NASA Science” buttons buzzes with anticipation. Among them stands Eli Orland, who likens America’s space ...

It’s a big universe out there—13.8 billion years old, full of hundreds of billions of star-and-planet-packed galaxies and, out past the limits of our sight, perhaps infinite in all directions. But as ...

Speakers for the 2026 Advancing Space Exploration include: George Pollock- The principal director of the Architecture and Design Subdivision in the Systems Engineering Division at The Aerospace ...