A bipartisan group of senators wants the U.S. to establish a new National Institute for Space Research to “ensure the nation is equipped to lead in the next space race”
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Before their big smashup, Theia and Earth were neighbors
View larger. | Theia and Earth collided about 4.5 billion years ago, as depicted in this artist’s concept. The moon then formed out of the chaos. Image via Max Planck
OSIRIS-APEX mission to asteroid Apophis soars past Earth
https://earthsky.org/upl/2024/01/ezgif.com-gif-to-webm-converter.webm NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured this view of Earth as it soared some 2,100 miles (3,400 kilometers) above our planet’s surface on September 23, 2025. For comparison, satellites in low
Northrop Grumman selected to provide cargo services for final phase of ISS
BREMEN, Germany — NASA has selected Northrop Grumman to provide cargo delivery services to the International Space Station once a spacecraft designed to deorbit the station is installed. NASA issued
ESA members to decide on Europe’s future in space at ministerial conference
BREMEN, Germany — The European Space Agency and its supporters will find out in the next two days how successful they have been in convincing European governments to significantly increase
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Boeing and NASA have agreed to keep astronauts off the company’s next Starliner flight and instead perform a trial run with cargo to prove its safety.
The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the
Possible giant “karstic” caves that formed when slightly acidic water dissolved bedrock have been identified on Mars and hailed as one of the best locations on the Red Planet to
5 Min Read NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidates: Shaping Artemis Exploration NASA’s Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche introduces the agency’s 24th astronaut class on Sept. 22, 2025. Credits: NASA/James Blair
The Shenzhou 22 mission, which was initially slated for launch next year, took to the skies successfully on November 25, 2023, at 04:11 UTC. The spacecraft lifted off from Site
ALICANTE, Spain — NASA has revised its commercial crew contract with Boeing, reducing the number of CST-100 Starliner missions to four, the first of which will carry only cargo. In
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. As humans began to explore outer space in the latter
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An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets. Using advanced numerical models, the team systematically classified for the first time six distinct
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