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Report: Kennedy Space Center not ready for era of super heavy rockets

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the surface of rocks that resemble traces of microbial activity

SoftBank CEO questions Musk's space data centers vision

New JWST images of abnormally well-developed galaxy cluster open up the 'cosmic noon' frontier

An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar System and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, astronomers said Monday

China's Tianwen-3 mission aims to drill two meters into Mars, return 500 grams of rock by 2031, and beat NASA and ESA to the first samples from another planet

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman telescope arrives at Kennedy Space Center

M-27 Dumbbell Nebula

Space Force Ordered a Satellite Launch—and Had It in Orbit 17 Hours Later | Rocket Lab set a new record for launching a satellite on demand.

A US military exercise in space got underway with barely anyone noticing | The Space Force wants to cut the time to field new satellites from years to weeks, days, or hours.

A Vintage, Last-of-Its-Kind Aircraft Will Launch NASA's Swift Rescue Mission

Nasa rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars

NASA is testing a rover that can drive faster and lift its wheels to climb obstacles

How the Moon’s Dust Could be Deadly

With Starfall, SpaceX eyes an edge in global cargo delivery from orbit | The purpose of Starfall is to support the “transport and delivery of goods through space.”

13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations | “Contract values for these efforts ballooned from nearly $2.8 billion to $5.9 billion.”

The Milky Way From 31,000 Feet In The Sky.

Millions of stars light up largest and most detailed shot of Milky Way’s centre

Dark Doodad Nebula with Cluster NGC 4372

I’ve Taught 141 Kids to Build and Launch High-Power Rockets in Indianapolis, Targeting 1000 by Year-End (Covered by Fox 59)

NASA and Boeing still uncertain about when Starliner will return to flight

The most unpredictable meteor shower of the year peaks this week. Here's what to expect | Space

Apollo 11 Lunar Liftoff and Rendezvous Footage HD

We got a sneak peek of the final space shuttle set to go on public display | “It is an incredible exhibit and incredible sight.”

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Relativity Space selected for upcoming NASA Mars orbiter mission

Rare Earth Hypothesis

I’m an astronomer who just helped overhaul the global rules for announcing alien life - Ask Me Anything!

Gilmour Space builds defence capability with first hypersonic rocket test in North Queensland

November launch set for space shuttle Endeavour's towering display

The Paektusan-2 space launch before lifting off from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground in North Korea. Courtesy of the Korean Central News Agency.

These summer star parties offer the best Milky Way views of the year

Scott Manley explains the very last Pegasus launch to save the Swift space telescope.

Something [solar wind plasma] is interfering with alien radio signals in space, new paper claims — and there's an easy way to fix it

NASA’s Management of Programs and Projects after Mission Termination—Canceled or Repurposed Artemis Campaign Systems

NASA’s Viking Mission & The Search for Life on Mars: The Experiments - 50 years ago

World’s most sensitive radio telescope array set to be built in Nevada desert

[OC] This is my third attempt at producing a wooden astrolabe for my latitude, I'm eager to hear your criticisms!

iPTF14hls: the star that has exploded six times and defies all theories

Ice Giants Revisited: Uranus And Neptune As Magma Ocean Worlds - Astrobiology

The Dance of the Stars: 20 Million Years of Real Stellar Motion (Gaia DR3 Data)

NASA Announces Spacewalkers for Robotic Arm Repair Work - NASA

Hubble Details Early Galaxy Transforming Neighborhood

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida ahead of launch. The observatory will survey the sky about 1,000 times faster than Hubble with a field of view at least 100 times wider, helping scientists study dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets.