NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. After 25 years of habitation, the International Space Station continues to be a proving ground for technology that powers NASA’s Artemis campaign, future lunar ... Continue Reading »

Retirement Information for NASA Employees The NSSC provides general administrative, advisory, and transactional support for federal benefits programs to all NASA employees, calculates retirement estimates, and processes retirement packages. In consideration of retiring employees on administrative leave, resources typically available ... Continue Reading »

The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Dec. 9, 2025, with Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard. The ... Continue Reading »

NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air taxis and drones can successfully operate within busy areas.   The demonstration, held at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon ... Continue Reading »

In March, NASA researchers employed a new camera system to capture data imagery of the interaction between Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission-1 lander’s engine plumes and the lunar surface. Through NASA’s Artemis campaign, this data will help researchers understand the ... Continue Reading »

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated, X-ray-emitting gas. The mass of this hot gas is typically about five times higher ... Continue Reading »

A flash of lightning, and then—something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena in Earth’s ... Continue Reading »

Called AVIRIS-5, it’s the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the Moon, and other worlds. Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the ... Continue Reading »

Michelle Hoehn vividly remembers the day a seed was planted for her future at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. As a seventh grader, the Bogalusa, Louisiana, native joined her dad for Father/Daughter Day at NASA Stennis. ... Continue Reading »

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim returned to Earth on Tuesday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, wrapping up an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station to benefit life on Earth and future space exploration. They made a ... Continue Reading »

NASA's loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter on the far side of the Red Planet  SpaceNASA Teams Work MAVEN Spacecraft Signal Loss  NASA Science (.gov)NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade  ABC NewsNASA loses contact with MAVEN ... Continue Reading »

"It's Older Than Us": Neil deGrasse Tyson And Professor Brian Cox Talk Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS And Alien Spacecraft  IFLScienceNew images show an interstellar comet that will soon make its closest approach to Earth  CNNAmericans are not going to the dentist enough : ... Continue Reading »

Best meteor shower of the year occurs this weekend  WSYRBundle up, leave the city and put away the phones. Here’s how to watch the Geminids, one of the year’s best meteor showers  PBSThe Geminids are one of the best meteor showers of ... Continue Reading »

Neutron Fairing headed to Wallops; first launch scheduled for 2026  Shore Daily NewsRocket Lab completes final tests on reusable 'Hungry Hippo' fairing ahead of 1st Neutron rocket launch  SpaceRocket Lab ready to send a Hungry Hippo into space  theregister.comTo space, via barge  localmatters.co.nzRocket Lab ... Continue Reading »

Exclusive | Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space  The Wall Street JournalBeyond the horizon: cost-driven strategies for space-based data centers  SpaceNewsBezos' Blue Origin working on orbital data center technology, WSJ reports  ReutersSpace-Based Data Centers Could Power AI with Solar ... Continue Reading »

China Smashes Space Record with 3 Rocket Launches in Just 19 Hours – Here’s What They Sent Into Orbit!  The Daily GalaxyChina breaks record with 3 Long March rocket launches in 19-hour stretch (video)  SpaceChina launches new TJS satellite, commercial Kinetica-1 lofts ... Continue Reading »

Watch Rocket Lab launch Korean disaster-monitoring satellite today  SpaceHow Recent Developments Are Rewriting The Rocket Lab Investment Story  Yahoo FinanceRocket Lab Brings Forward Earth Observation Launch for KAIST, Liftoff Scheduled for Tomorrow  GlobeNewswireRocket Lab Stock (RKLB) Opinions on SpaceX Valuation and Neutron Testing ... Continue Reading »

Helsing and Kongsberg plot multi-mission European defense space network  SpaceNewsKongsberg, Helsing team up for European satellite-intel constellation  Defense NewsKongsberg, Helsing, Hensoldt Join Forces For Space Intel Constellation  Aviation Week NetworkGermany's Helsing, Norway's Kongsberg sign deal to cooperate on satellites  marketscreener.comNorway and Germany Team Up ... Continue Reading »

Fireball meteor dazzles Texans with overnight light show  MySAFireball caught on dashcam over Central Texas Tuesday night  KXAN AustinDid you see the meteor over Austin? You might catch more this week  Austin American-StatesmanDashcam footage captures huge fireball flying across the Texas sky  The IndependentColossal ... Continue Reading »

A 50 Million Light Year Structure Caught Spinning  Universe TodayAstronomers Discover One of the Largest Rotating Structures Ever Seen in the Universe  SciTechDailyScience news this week: A human population isolated for 100,000 years, the biggest spinning structure in the universe, and a ... Continue Reading »

LA-born NASA astronaut Jonny Kim returns to Earth after 245 days in space  NBC4 Los AngelesNASA Astronaut Jonny Kim, Crewmates Return from Space Station  NASA (.gov)Watch: Nasa astronaut and Roscosmos cosmonauts return to Earth  BBCSpacecraft brings Russians, American back to earth, Russia's space ... Continue Reading »

Are northern lights visible tonight in NJ, NYC? Time, map, how to see  Bergen RecordNOAA forecasts strong geomagnetic storm for Tuesday: What to expect  ABC NewsStrong (G3) Geomagnetic Storm WATCH Valid for 09 Dec 2025  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (.gov)Northern lights ... Continue Reading »

Chinese astronauts inspect damaged Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during 8-hour spacewalk (video)  SpaceChinese astronauts inspect debris-damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft during spacewalk  SpaceNewsChinese astronauts install debris protection aboard space station  ReutersYou don’t launch an empty spacecraft by accident: China admits a serious issue aboard its space ... Continue Reading »

SpaceX launches classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office  Spaceflight NowIs there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX, ULA launch schedule in Florida  Florida TodaySpaceX launches mysterious NROL-77 mission for the US military (video)  SpaceWATCH AGAIN: SpaceX launches classified mission from Florida’s Space Coast  WKMGSpaceX ... Continue Reading »

In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars  Ars TechnicaHuman Missions to Mars Must Search for Alien Life, New Report Finds  Scientific AmericanSearch for Life Should Be Top Science Priority for First Human Landing on Mars, Says ... Continue Reading »

JWST Detects Record-Breaking Supernova That Erupted Right at The Cosmic Dawn  ScienceAlertNASA’s Webb Identifies Earliest Supernova to Date, Shows Host Galaxy  NASA Science (.gov)The James Webb Space Telescope just found the oldest supernova ever seen  SpaceNASA’s JWST Spots Most Ancient Supernova Ever Observed  Scientific ... Continue Reading »

UPDATE: SpaceX launches third rocket in a week from Vandenberg Space Force Base  KSBY NewsSpaceX  SpaceXSpaceX launches 160th Falcon 9 rocket of 2025  Spaceflight NowRocket launch coming up today in California. Time, where to see liftoff  Ventura County StarSpaceX launches Starlink satellites on record ... Continue Reading »

Black hole spotted blasting winds at 130 million mph: "A scale almost too big to imagine"  CBS NewsThis supermassive black hole flung out matter at 134 million mph: 'On a scale almost too big to imagine'  SpaceFlaring black hole whips up ultra-fast ... Continue Reading »

Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars  FuturismNASA Struggles to Bring Perseverance’s Mars Discoveries Back Home  Scientific AmericanAlteration history of aluminum-rich rocks at Jezero crater, Mars | Communications Earth & Environment  NatureStrangely bleached rocks on Mars hint that the Red Planet ... Continue Reading »

Uranus may have more in common with Earth than we thought, 40-year-old Voyager 2 probe data shows  SpaceVoyager 2 May Have Caught Uranus At a Bad Time, Solving a 40-Year Mystery  ScienceAlertDecades Later, Scientists Finally Explain Voyager 2’s Bizarre Readings at Uranus  SciTechDailyVoyager ... Continue Reading »

Lt. Gen. Phil Garrant, who leads the Space Systems Command, said Blue Origin selected the four-flight benchmark and the government agreed The post Blue Origin targets four-flight campaign for New Glenn’s path to Space Force certification appeared first on SpaceNews. Continue Reading »

The contract will focus on signals intelligence for U.S. Air Force platforms. The post Voyager wins $21 million Air Force contract for AI-driven signals processing appeared first on SpaceNews. Continue Reading »

NATO has picked 150 companies from 24 of its member countries to join its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic next year, including more than two dozen with ties to the space sector. The post Multiple space companies join NATO’s ... Continue Reading »

As on-orbit capabilities grow more advanced, ground systems are undergoing a transformation of their own.  Ground network specialist ST Engineering iDirect, with headquarters in Herndon, Virginia, is investing in new […] The post Delivering the next generation of cloud-native, multi-orbit ground ... Continue Reading »

Two defense technology companies from Norway and Germany have joined forces to bolster Europe’s sovereign intelligence and communications capabilities, with plans to start deploying small satellites in about three years. The post Helsing and Kongsberg plot multi-mission European defense space network ... Continue Reading »

China continued a surge in launch activity with a pair of missions Tuesday, adding to an opaque satellite series and launching new remote sensing satellites. The post China launches new TJS satellite, commercial Kinetica-1 lofts 9 spacecraft appeared first on SpaceNews. Continue Reading »

GOLDEN, CO — A university team has found that small orbital debris could emit radio bursts as they collide or approach each other in space. The signal can be detected with large radio dishes on Earth, as well as satellites in ... Continue Reading »

SAN FRANCISCO – British startup Odin Space raised $3 million in a seed round to begin commercializing tiny sensors to map and analyze sub-centimeter orbital debris. With its first sensor launched in 2023 on D-Orbit’s ION orbital transfer vehicle, Odin ... Continue Reading »

Space missions are entering a new era defined by complexity: more sensors, more software-driven behavior, more tightly coupled subsystems and more interactions between spacecraft and orbital infrastructure. As these systems evolve, the number of potential failure modes grows — ranging ... Continue Reading »

SAN FRANCISCO – Benchmark Space Systems’ ASCENT-fueled Macaw thruster performed a 10-minute continuous burn, clearing the way for an on-orbit application of the propulsion technology, the company announced Dec. 10. “Because ASCENT has 50% greater impulse density than other monopropellants, ... Continue Reading »

NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a key communications relay. The post NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter appeared first on SpaceNews. Continue Reading »

A space solar power startup has emerged from stealth after demonstrating a key technology for its plans to transmit power from space to the Earth. The post Overview Energy demonstrates technologies for space solar power appeared first on SpaceNews. Continue Reading »

Two Shenzhou-21 astronauts embarked on the mission’s first spacewalk late Monday, inspecting and photographing a damaged spacecraft window which triggered an earlier emergency launch. The post Chinese astronauts inspect debris-damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft during spacewalk appeared first on SpaceNews. Continue Reading »

Canada has contracted satellite operator Telesat and manufacturer MDA Space to explore options for a multibillion-dollar military communications network to support the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic. The post Canada picks Telesat and MDA to study Arctic military communications constellation ... Continue Reading »

– SCHOTT® Solar Glass exos provides enhanced radiation resistance and optical performance for simple silicon cells up to III-V multijunction satellite solar cells.– Jointly developed with Heilbronn-based AZUR SPACE Solar […] The post SCHOTT launches high-performance cover glass for next-generation space ... Continue Reading »

Startup leans on C-band architecture to separate from L-band competitors The post TrustPoint sets 2027 target for initial rollout of LEO-based navigation services appeared first on SpaceNews. Continue Reading »

LeoLabs has won an interagency contract to provide space-surveillance data for the U.S. government, supporting adversarial spacecraft monitoring and the TraCSS orbital traffic coordination platform due to enter full service early next year. The post LeoLabs lands interagency contract to feed ... Continue Reading »

It has become conventional wisdom that China’s rise is driven by a coordinated strategy across three fronts here on Earth: dominating critical industries, controlling critical resources and occupying strategically important locations. This is explicit in the Chinese Communist Party’s own ... Continue Reading »

The company is adapting commercial thermal-sensing tech for military applications The post Muon Space to develop sensor payload for missile defense satellites appeared first on SpaceNews. Continue Reading »

Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux has thrown its hat into the emerging market for orbital data centers, joining SpaceX, Amazon and others exploring ways to move energy-hungry artificial intelligence compute off Earth. The post Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux enters orbital ... Continue Reading »

China launched four missions in four days, accelerating its record-setting launch cadence while expanding its Guowang LEO megaconstellation and deploying new Yaogan reconnaissance assets. The post China launches 4 times in 4 days, boosting megaconstellation and surveillance assets appeared first on ... Continue Reading »

The Senate Commerce Committee advanced the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator to the full Senate in a Dec. 8 vote. The post Senate committee advances Isaacman nomination a second time appeared first on SpaceNews. Continue Reading »

The ongoing review could have implications for space projects The post Pentagon weighs consolidation of DIU tech portfolio appeared first on SpaceNews. Continue Reading »

December 8, 2025 – Washington, D.C. – The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is pleased to welcome its four newest members to our Space Supply Chain Council (S2C2): McCollister’s, MERC Aerospace, […] The post CSF Expands Space Supply Chain Council with Four ... Continue Reading »

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Video: 00:42:04 Watch the replay of the media briefing held ahead of the 14th operational launch of the Galileo programme. The briefing covers the mission details for the launch of two Galileo satellites, which are set to lift off on 17 ... Continue Reading »

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted an extraordinary blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into space at eye-watering speeds of 60 000 km ... Continue Reading »

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Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image features part of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwestern China. Continue Reading »

Image: Comet 3I/ATLAS shows activity in Juice navigation camera teaser Continue Reading »

True to its promise, the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite is now being used to calculate directly how clouds and aerosols influence Earth’s energy balance – the all-important balance that regulates our climate. In doing so, EarthCARE is poised to ... Continue Reading »

Is it an insect? A strange fossil? An otherworldly eye, or even a walnut? No, it’s an intriguing kind of martian butterfly spotted by ESA’s Mars Express. Continue Reading »

On 2 December 1995 the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) blasted into space – on what was supposed to be a two-year mission. From its outpost 1.5 million km away from Earth in the direction of the Sun, SOHO enjoys uninterrupted views of our star. It has provided a nearly continuous record of our ... Continue Reading »

A space telescope and AI teamed up to analyze a million ... Continue Reading »

Cyber Monday may be behind us, but don't despair, there are ... Continue Reading »

Mind transfers, nanotech, and robotic innovations take center stage in this ... Continue Reading »

Rocket Lab has signed a contract to launch its new Neutron ... Continue Reading »

Embark Studios' extraction shooter takes cues from sci-fi classics to establish ... Continue Reading »

Rocket Lab will launch a Korean disaster-monitoring satellite today (Dec. 10), ... Continue Reading »

Something happened to the probe on the far side of the ... Continue Reading »

Programmable matter mines swarm the U.S.S. Athena in this action-packed 4-minute ... Continue Reading »

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 Starlink satellites launched from ... Continue Reading »

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was imaged in October as it crossed ... Continue Reading »

The findings provide an answer to a planetary mystery that has ... Continue Reading »

Once completed, this telescope will help usher in a new era ... Continue Reading »

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the ... Continue Reading »

For the first time, we can see and hear lightning-like discharges ... Continue Reading »

China just launched three Long March rockets in less than 19 ... Continue Reading »

The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy ... Continue Reading »

"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in ... Continue Reading »

Two Chinese astronauts installed more debris shielding on the Tiangong space ... Continue Reading »

Your guide to January’s full Wolf Moon, from peak times to ... Continue Reading »

Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for ... Continue Reading »

Whether you're a casual fan or a spaceflight enthusiast, see how ... Continue Reading »

The image shows a good example of the phenomenon called airglow. ... Continue Reading »

In other words, the matter traveled at 20% the speed of ... Continue Reading »

Aetherflux has focused its efforts on space-based solar power, with the ... Continue Reading »

SpaceX launched the NROL-77 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office ... Continue Reading »

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey ... Continue Reading »

Check out the first findings from the Subaru Telescope. ... Continue Reading »

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off ... Continue Reading »

New simulations suggest TRAPPIST-1e's possible methane atmosphere may be a false ... Continue Reading »

Ahead of Terminator 2D: NO FATE, we're going back in time ... Continue Reading »

"It’s kind of a jigsaw puzzle where all the different pieces ... Continue Reading »

Frequent flares from the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 could offer new clues ... Continue Reading »

A U.S. Senate committee advanced the renomination of billionaire tech entrepreneur ... Continue Reading »

The supermoon shines brighter and bolder than usual—discover which dazzling lunar ... Continue Reading »

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as an ... Continue Reading »

…Except for Mab, which is even weirder than expected. ... Continue Reading »

Private billionaire SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman appeared before a Senate committee ... Continue Reading »

This rare phenomenon is also called the green rim and it ... Continue Reading »

An AI start-up has found a vulnerability in security software protecting ... Continue Reading »

The powerful X1.1 solar flare from sunspot region 4298 sparked strong ... Continue Reading »

NASA's Jonny Kim and two cosmonauts are scheduled to come back ... Continue Reading »

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off ... Continue Reading »

'Apollo 1: Destination Moon' follows a real-life astronaut mission that ended ... Continue Reading »

From bicycles to rockets, learning through experience – whether human or ... Continue Reading »

The Sea Devils are back in a brand new 'Doctor Who' ... Continue Reading »

Most astronauts who menstruate pause their cycle with hormones before hitting ... Continue Reading »

The Geminids return with near-perfect viewing conditions, offering skywatchers up to ... Continue Reading »

On Episode 188 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and ... Continue Reading »

Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from ... Continue Reading »

The waning moon shines close to the king of the planets ... Continue Reading »