Nearly half of the artificial satellites in orbit carry a payload. Often, these are in the form of sensors for observation, ...

Debris that small, which cannot currently be detected from ... NASA's Hubble Provides Bird's-Eye View of Andromeda Galaxy's Ecosystem Feb. 27, 2025 — Located 2.5 million light-years away ...

Four astronauts launched on Friday en route to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:03 p.m. Eastern time from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is ...

Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of magnetic reconnection, a key physical process that is important across the ...

Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA's MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of ...

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts walk from the Operations & Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral ...

NASA told its staff Monday that the space agency will start cutting its ranks − including the office of its chief scientist − as part of a "broader governmentwide restructuring effort.

Infographic of the week The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is by far the biggest health funder in the world, and funds scientists that lead the world in biomedical discoveries.

NASA has abruptly closed its chief-scientist office, along with 2 other offices, firing 23 employees. The 10 March action leaves the agency without a way of feeding independent science advice to ...

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