Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry
Science Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted NASA’s decision to halt…
A Shift in What’s Shaping U.S. Landscapes
The land is always changing, sometimes by human hands: cities are built, farms expanded, and forests logged. Other…
MNTS, ASTC, RKTO Soar As NASA Ramps Up Moon Missions — But Isaacman Warns Orbital Economy Is ‘Grossly Overstated’
NASA chief Jared Isaacman said the orbital economy “has been grossly overstated” and warned of commercial demand beyond…
Earth is quietly dusted with thousands of tonnes of space material every year, most of it as grains smaller than sand — and some of it can be sifted from the grit of ordinary roof gutters, tiny meteorites hiding in plain sight in cities.
Extraterrestrial dust falls on every part of the Earth, including the parts covered in cities. Most of it…
Students Build Moon Robots for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge
Katherine Rauscher of Michigan Technological University prepares her team’s prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals…
‘The sun would all but disappear, and the moon would always look full’: A radio astronomer shares her mind-bending view of the universe
Long before Neil Armstrong piloted the first crewed lunar lander onto the moon and uttered his now-famous words…
US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network
SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing…
FAA grounds SpaceX’s Starship megarocket after Flight 12 ‘mishap’
Just five days after its debut flight, SpaceX’s Starship V3 megarocket has been grounded. The U.S. Federal Aviation…
Released: NASA Goddard Issues Draft Request for Proposal for the Landsat 10 Spacecraft
The Landsat 10 Spacecraft Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) is available for review via SAM.gov as of May…
Russian cosmonauts install sun-watching telescope on ISS during 6-hour spacewalk
Two Russian cosmonauts worked to install and retrieve science experiments while on a spacewalk outside the International Space…
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.
The asteroid that struck near Chicxulub, in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, about 66 million years ago…
China shakes up its space programs to land astronauts on the moon by 2030: ‘We will spare no effort’
China is establishing an integrated program called the Lunar Exploration Program, melding both its robotic Chang’e lunar probe…