Smacking a planet-threatening asteroid comes with big responsibility. If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a “gravitational keyhole”
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Live coverage: SpaceX seeks second attempt at Falcon Heavy launch following weather scrub on Monday
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket stands in the vertical launch position ahead of the flight of the ViaSat-3 Flight 3 mission for Viasat. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now SpaceX will try again
Starbirth shuts down 40,000 light-years from the Milky Way's core — and astronomers don't know why
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NASA Connects Little Red Dots with Chandra, Webb
This image of a special object, dubbed the “X-ray dot,” represents a discovery from Chandra that could help explain the nature of a mysterious class of sources in the early
Space Foundation Premieres National Space Day Video May 1
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — April 28, 2026 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, will premiere its National Space Day educational video
Pentagon budget affirms Space Force role tracking moving targets from orbit
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s fiscal 2027 budget request is the clearest signal yet that the U.S. Space Force is moving into a new role: tracking moving targets from orbit, a
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A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken from a rock named “Cheyava Falls”
This is the Mars rock Cheyava Falls in the Jezero Crater area of the red planet. The Perseverance rover drilled the hole we see here, extracting a sample called Sapphire
Rocks in the Bright Angel Formation. NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover’s mast.
WASHINGTON — Boeing announced it has begun 3D printing the structural panels that form the backbone of satellite solar arrays, a step the aerospace giant says will cut production times
Since February 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring a region on Mars known as Jezero Crater, a huge cavity believed to have once hosted a lake. It’s considered one
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is celebrating 10 years of cutting-edge gravitational wave science by confirming predictions made by physics luminaries Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Roy Kerr —
WASHINGTON — A startup has raised an initial round of funding to commercialize a technology that could create large structures in orbit. Rendezvous Robotics announced Sept. 10 it raised $3
Restoring public trust in government institutions has become a pressing issue, especially in the wake of recent hearings regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). The hearings highlighted the need for transparency,
WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 10 launched 21 satellites to low Earth orbit for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency. This is the first deployment
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