WASHINGTON — A House appropriations bill provides funding for a civil space traffic coordination system but wants changes to increase its reliance on the Defense Department. To continue reading this
WASHINGTON — A House appropriations bill provides funding for a civil space traffic coordination system but wants changes to increase its reliance on the Defense Department. To continue reading this
This graphic shows the proportion of different types of phytoplankton – diatoms, haptophytes and cryptophytes (from left to right) – as a percentage of the total community according to chlorophyll
SpaceX on Tuesday was once again gearing up for the latest launch of its Starship megarocket after two successive postponements.
Final size of protoplanets after 2 My of Hill regime pebble accretion, for different Stokes numbers of silicate and metal pebbles. The plot shows protoplanet mass relative to Earth (white
A member of the space crop production team prepares materials for Veggie seed pillows inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA/Cory S Huston When the
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities in the world. Researchers use it to study dark and distant
Understanding the early universe is a foundational goal in space science. We’re driven to understand nature and how it evolved from a super-heated plasma after the Big Bang to the
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an X1.5 solar flare peaking at 7:44 am EDT on May 11, 2024. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light
Compact, reflective, easy to manufacture mirrors are a critical component for advancing astronomical technology in space. Mirrors are a key component in most telescopes, though they are notoriously hard to
NASA’s Artemis II mission, set to send four astronauts on a nearly 10-day mission around the moon and back, will advance the agency’s goal to land astronauts at the moon’s






