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NASA

Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates

Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived active regions, we now know much more about the patches where these ...

6 hours ago

NASA

Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates

NASA

Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet!

The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina Sky Survey’s Mt. Lemmon telescope in Arizona, the project’s science team is now processing images from the Bok 2.3-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The Bok is a mighty ...

7 hours ago

NASA

Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet!

Space.com

Hubble and NASA space telescopes track 'game-changing' gamma-ray burst back to neutron star collision in 'forbidden' region ...

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.

7 hours ago

Space.com

Hubble and NASA space telescopes track 'game-changing' gamma-ray burst back to neutron star collision in 'forbidden' region ...

Space.com

Sci-fi shooter 'Marathon' comes to life in hilarious marketing prank (video)

It's just a prank, bro!

8 hours ago

Space.com

Sci-fi shooter 'Marathon' comes to life in hilarious marketing prank (video)

NASA

NASA Selects Finalists in Student Aircraft Maintenance Competition

NASA has selected eight student teams as finalists in the 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, giving them the resources to help address a critical challenge for U.S. aviation: maintenance. Challenges facing the commercial aviation industry include a shortage of qualified maintenance workers and ...

9 hours ago

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NASA Selects Finalists in Student Aircraft Maintenance Competition

Space.com

Russia aims to reclaim Soviet space glory with 2036 launch of ambitious Venus mission

Russia plans to launch the Venera-D mission to Venus in 2036, continuing the Soviet Union's legacy of exploring there in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

9 hours ago

Space.com

Russia aims to reclaim Soviet space glory with 2036 launch of ambitious Venus mission

Space.com

'Disclosure Day': Release date, plot, cast, & everything else we know about Spielberg's sci-fi return

Steven Spielberg returns to sci-fi with a somber UFO invasion flick this summer

10 hours ago

Space.com

'Disclosure Day': Release date, plot, cast, & everything else we know about Spielberg's sci-fi return

NASA Space Station

Week Wraps with Space Biology, Spacewalk Preps, and Space Station Reboost

Science hardware maintenance filled the day for the Expedition 74 crew following the release of two cargo spacecraft in less than a week at the International Space Station. The orbital residents also continued more reviews for next week’s spacewalk, kept up their ongoing human research program, and ...

11 hours ago

NASA Space Station

Week Wraps with Space Biology, Spacewalk Preps, and Space Station Reboost

NASA

NASA Volunteers Study Biofilm Adaptability in Space

Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that stick to one another and also adhere to a nearby surface. They are intricately associated with life on Earth, enabling functions essential to human and plant systems.

11 hours ago

NASA

NASA Volunteers Study Biofilm Adaptability in Space

NASA

Good Morning, Moon

Early morning sunlight illuminates the western wall of this unnamed crater, leaving deep shadows on the ground and in the interior. The image was taken on August 30, 2023, by LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera). LROC is a system of three cameras and one of the seven instruments aboard NASA’s ...

12 hours ago

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Good Morning, Moon

Space.com

The March full moon glows red through Saharan dust in eerie composite view

Saharan dust and atmospheric filtering combined to give the moon a dramatic red hue.

12 hours ago

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The March full moon glows red through Saharan dust in eerie composite view

NASA

Agenda diaria de la misión a la Luna de Artemis II de la NASA

Read this web article in English here. Unos ocho minutos después del despegue de Artemis II, la nave espacial Orion y su tripulación —los astronautas de la NASA Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover y Christina Koch, junto con el astronauta de la CSA (Agencia Espacial Canadiense) Jeremy Hansen— llegarán ...

13 hours ago

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Agenda diaria de la misión a la Luna de Artemis II de la NASA

Space.com

Satellite spies an erupting volcano | Space photo of the day for March 13, 2026

A new NASA satellite image has captured a rare view of an erupting volcano, revealing its bright red lava flow as seen from space.

14 hours ago

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Satellite spies an erupting volcano | Space photo of the day for March 13, 2026

New York Times Space

Space Jam: NASA’s MADCAP Team Directs Traffic at the Moon

A “red alert” involving the private Blue Ghost mission in lunar orbit a year ago highlights a growing number of incidents above Earth’s neighbor.

1 day ago

New York Times Space

Space Jam: NASA’s MADCAP Team Directs Traffic at the Moon

New York Times Space

NASA Says Artemis II Moon Launch Is On Track for April 1

After postponing launch opportunities in February and March, the agency determined that four astronauts could proceed toward the first crewed lunar journey in more than 50 years.

1 day ago

New York Times Space

NASA Says Artemis II Moon Launch Is On Track for April 1

NASA Space Station

Canadarm2 Releases Cygnus XL Spacecraft Ending Cargo Mission

At 7 a.m. EDT, the Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft was released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm, which earlier detached the cargo spacecraft from the Earth‑facing port of the International Space Station’s Unity module. At the time of release, the station was flying about 260 miles over ______.

1 day ago

NASA Space Station

Canadarm2 Releases Cygnus XL Spacecraft Ending Cargo Mission

NASA Space Station

Cygnus XL Spacecraft Departing Station Soon Live on NASA+

Live coverage of the departure of the Northrop Grumman’s uncrewed Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. The spacecraft’s release from the robotic arm is scheduled for 7 a.m. EDT.

1 day ago

NASA Space Station

Cygnus XL Spacecraft Departing Station Soon Live on NASA+

NASA Space Station

Cardiac Research and Spacewalk Preps Before Cygnus XL Spacecraft Departs

The Expedition 74 crew members spent Wednesday studying the cardiovascular system while preparing for a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost’s power generation system. A U.S. cargo spacecraft is also packed and ready for its departure from the International Space Station on Thursday.

2 days ago

NASA Space Station

Cardiac Research and Spacewalk Preps Before Cygnus XL Spacecraft Departs