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The rumors about impending NASA budget cuts were well-founded, it turns out. The Trump administration released its proposed 2026 “skinny budget” today (May 2), laying out in broad strokes how

The cosmic community of Abell 1489 comes into focus in this image of the galaxy cluster taken by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on Gemini North, one half of the International

SpaceX continues to gear up for the ninth test flight of its Starship megarocket. The company performed a “static fire” test with the Flight 9 upper stage this week at

In a distant corner of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt, icy bodies lurk in the darkness, orbiting our sun at vast distances. These ancient minor planets are called

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is looking for a private company to build spacecraft to orbit the moon and search for water. A program solicitation that DARPA

That soon-to-reenter Cosmos 482 is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery provides some interesting details. The former Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 was lofted back in 1972.

The next spacecraft to fly humans around the moon has been delivered to the only space agency on Earth to ever successfully fly astronauts to our nearest celestial neighbor. Orion,

It is rare when we highlight a celestial event (or events) that involves the zodiacal constellation of Cancer the Crab. In Greek mythology, Cancer was summoned to distract Hercules when

In her book “Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity and Finding Your Life’s Purpose,” the sociologist and life coach Martha Beck describes two different ways humans group in society: One structure is

SpaceX has launched another Starlink mission, keeping a steady pace of adding to the satellite megaconstellation every few days. A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX‘s Starlink 6-75 mission Thursday night