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From NASA NASA has awarded a $73.7 million contract to Made In Space, Inc. of Mountain View, California, to demonstrate the ability of a small spacecraft, called Archinaut One, to manufacture and assemble spacecraft components...

I grew up with the space program. My first firm memory about it was staying inside during fourth grade recess to listen to Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight on a nice day in May. Other standouts were the in-orbit rendezvous...

News Release 8-Jul-2019 Neutron star mergers can provide new ‘cosmic ruler’ National Radio Astronomy Observatory Astronomers using National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes have demonstrated how a combination...

From NASA June 27, 2019 Tumultuous Clouds of Jupiter This stunning image of Jupiter’s stormy northern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet...

Royal Astronomical Society IMAGE: Spiral structure in the Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101), as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. view more Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC, and STScI Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have...

From NASA Image of the Day June 10, 2019 This striking image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), a powerful instrument installed on the telescope in 2009...

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. You may wonder: What is being shown? Air traffic routes? Information moving around the global internet?...

Terraforming holds the key to colonising Mars, writes Jan Miller. And we already have a sizeable nuclear fusion reactor, writes David E HankeI don’t agree with Philip Ball’s thesis (Life on Mars? Sorry, Brian Cox, that’s...

From NASA May 28, 2019 NASA’s Mars 2020 will land in Jezero Crater, pictured here. The image was taken by instruments on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which regularly takes images of potential landing sites...

From NASA A small spacecraft the size of a mini-refrigerator is packed with cutting-edge “green” technology. NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission, or GPIM, will prove a sustainable and efficient approach to spaceflight....

From NASA By Danielle Sempsrott NASA’s Kennedy Space Center In an effort to increase the ability to provide astronauts nutrients on long-duration missions as the agency plans to sustainably return to the Moon and move...

Multi-planetary architectural firm AI Space Factory has been awarded first place in the NASA Centennial Challenge with its innovative 3D-printed design, MARSHA...

Guest geological note by David Middleton Chang’e-4: Chinese rover ‘confirms’ Moon crater theoryBy Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website 15 May 2019 The Chinese Chang’e-4 rover may have confirmed...

Guest ridiculing marveling by David Middleton I had to take a break from writing the sequel to How Climate Change Buried a Desert 20,000 Feet Beneath the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor after running across this gem on Real Clear...

From NASA A cool image as space exploration marches onward. ~ctm May 6, 2019 SpaceX’s Dragon lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday, May...