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Opinion: The 'Habitable Zone' Obsession Is Blinding Us to Better Ways to Study Planets

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Opinion: The Space Industry's Real Problem Isn't Innovation Scarcity, It's Clarity Bankruptcy

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Opinion: We're Obsessed With Finding Black Holes. What If We're Missing What Matters?

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Opinion: The Space Industry's Rush to Deploy Orbital Data Centers Could Backfire Without Guardrails

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Opinion: SpaceX's Launch Cadence is a Feature, Not a Bug—And Slowing Down Might Be Smarter

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APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad

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Destructive Fires Char Western Europe

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Students Take on Airborne Field Research with NASA

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NASA Assigns Astronaut Deniz Burnham to First Space Station Mission

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Starburst Galaxy Centaurus A

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Rules of the road needed for orbital data center constellations

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K2 Space raises $500 million for commercial, defense satellite expansion

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Roman Space Telescope on track for late August launch

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Opinion: Space Industry's Patent Gold Rush Is Crowding Out the Explorers

Yesterday

Opinion: The 'Earth 2.0' Narrative Is Overselling Mars Habitability Before We've Done the Work

Yesterday

Opinion: The Lunar Water Hunt Is Really About Who Controls Earth's Future

Yesterday

Opinion: Why We're Funding Climate Research That Nobody Actually Uses

Yesterday

Opinion: SpaceX's Launch Cadence Is Becoming a Liability, Not an Asset

Yesterday

NASA Awards 2026 Innovative Technology Concepts

Yesterday

NASA Sets Coverage for August Northern Hemisphere Total Solar Eclipse

Yesterday

NASA’s Curiosity Views a Sand-Capped Butte

Yesterday

NASA’s Curiosity Discovers a Field of Martian Polygons

Yesterday

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures

Yesterday

Sophia Space and Caltech claim patent for space data centers

Yesterday

Proposed rule would exempt commercial launch licensing from environmental regulations

Yesterday

L3Harris delays missile business IPO to 2027 despite surging defense demand

Yesterday

Opinion: The Lunar Water Rush Is Being Sold as Inevitable. It Deserves More Skepticism Than It's Getting.

2 days ago

Opinion: The 'Climate Data Crisis' Is Being Sold as Inevitable. It Deserves More Skepticism Than It's Getting.

2 days ago

Opinion: The 'Habitable Zone' Obsession Is Blinding Us to Actual Planetary Science

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Opinion: The Space Industry's Obsession With Flashy Research Is Starving the Unglamorous Work We Actually Need

2 days ago

Opinion: The Real Launch Crisis Isn't Grounding—It's Overcapacity

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Sizing Up the Sargassum Belt

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NASA to Cover Three US Spacewalks, Host Preview News Conference

2 days ago

NASA’s Hubble Shows Star Formation in Andromeda Galaxy Winding Down

2 days ago

Boeing still working with NASA to schedule next Starliner flight

2 days ago

Chinese startup raises funds for space situational awareness constellation, joining commercial SSA rush

2 days ago

Swift reboost mission encounters attitude control problems

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ESA opens call to repurpose Gateway communications module

2 days ago

NASA selects successor to CAPSTONE lunar mission

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Opinion: We're Finding Black Holes Everywhere Now. That's Actually the Scary Part

3 days ago

Opinion: The Moon Isn't a Destination Anymore—It's Become Our Backup Plan

3 days ago

Opinion: The Auction Block Looks Busy, But The Real Story Is Who's Getting Priced Out

3 days ago

Opinion: The Case for Slower Climate Research May Sound Backward, But It's Not

3 days ago

Opinion: The C-band auction looked like a spectrum win. It's actually a sign of orbital real estate collapse.

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Smoke Blankets Oregon

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NASA Astronaut Chris Williams to Discuss Space Station Mission

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NASA Science Soars During August Total Solar Eclipse

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NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Returns to Earth

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NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Star

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Upper C-band auction offers another lift for GEO industry

3 days ago

Sphinx Defense wins $287 million contract for strategic satellite communications software

3 days ago

Orbes unveils Exo-ORB and agreement with Symphony Space

3 days ago

Opinion: The Moon's Water Problem Is Really About Who Controls Earth's Future

4 days ago

Opinion: We're Obsessed With Mars Science We Can't Use Yet

4 days ago

Opinion: The Lab Shortage Crisis We're Not Talking About

4 days ago

Opinion: The 'Habitable Planet' Pipeline Is Selling Us False Hope

4 days ago

Opinion: The Space Tourism Simulation Trend Signals the End of Astronaut Mystique

4 days ago

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Return from Space Station

4 days ago

What happened to space horror movies?

4 days ago

I'm not an astronaut, but I went to the International Space Station (sort of)

4 days ago

NASA astronaut, 2 cosmonauts return to Earth after 241 days on space station (video)

4 days ago

We boldly chat with 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunners about space dinosaurs and Lovecraftian horrors for season 4 (interview)

4 days ago

What lurks beneath the volcanoes of Jupiter's moon Io? NASA's Juno probe just took a peek

4 days ago

Opinion: The 'Faster Science' Myth Deserves Serious Pushback

5 days ago

Opinion: The Lunar Land Rush Could Crater Without Better Fundamentals

5 days ago

Opinion: Why the Launch Industry's Demand Crisis Is Actually a Capacity Problem in Disguise

5 days ago

Opinion: We're Racing to Find Every Black Hole. Maybe We Should Pump the Brakes.

5 days ago

Opinion: Why NASA Should Pump the Brakes on Wing Design Testing

5 days ago

NASA and ESA facilities avoid major damage from wildfires in Spain

5 days ago

Artemis 2 astronaut advocates for equatorial lunar landings

5 days ago

Gravity-1 sea launch off Shanghai puts 9 satellites into orbit

5 days ago

Commercial Space Federation (CSF) Welcomes Three New Associate Members

5 days ago

We talk with astronaut Michael Foale about the 1997 Space Station Mir crisis: 'He took all the blame of the collision on his shoulders'

5 days ago

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 220 — First on Mars

5 days ago

An off-the-shelf camera could help us find more black holes smashing together

5 days ago

NASA astronaut, 2 cosmonauts returning to Earth on July 26: Watch it live

5 days ago

Opinion: The 'Second Earth' Fantasy Is Being Sold as Inevitable. It Deserves More Skepticism Than It's Getting.

6 days ago

Opinion: NASA's New Astronaut Health Screening Signals a Reckoning With Long-Duration Spaceflight

6 days ago

Opinion: The Satellite Constellation Gold Rush Is Moving Too Fast, and That's a Problem

6 days ago

Opinion: The Launch Cadence Fantasy Deserves Harder Questions

6 days ago

Opinion: Mars' Real Problem Isn't Science—It's Too Many Managers Chasing the Same Dream

6 days ago

NASA’s ESCAPADE Snaps Family Portrait of Earth, Moon

6 days ago

SpaceX conducts 13th Starship test flight

6 days ago

ULA deals with financial challenges caused by Vulcan grounding

6 days ago

Lightning strikes Long March 3B after liftoff, Kinetica-1 launches 5 satellites

6 days ago

EU delays release of Copernicus imagery over Gulf of Oman

6 days ago

Air Force takes over troubled military GPS receiver program

6 days ago

SpaceX's Starship megarocket makes the 'softest splashdown' ever after launching next-gen Starlink satellites in Flight 13 test (video)

6 days ago

ZWO Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope review

6 days ago

New Crew Members Welcomed to International Space Station

Jul 24, 2026

NASA Announces New Spacecraft Technology Demonstration Mission at Moon

Jul 24, 2026

NASA to Support Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Testing, Advance Artemis

Jul 24, 2026

Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral

Jul 24, 2026

LatConnect 60 Unveils Proprietary AI Capabilities Following Growing Indo-Pacific Defence Interest in SWIRSAT

Jul 24, 2026

Office of Space Commerce to move ahead on mission authorization

Jul 24, 2026

A Million-Panel Project

Jul 24, 2026

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4954–4960: Celebrating Our Rover Engineers Past and Present

Jul 24, 2026

Look for NASA+ Now Streaming on Amazon Fire TV

Jul 24, 2026

NASA programs feel effects of workforce reductions

Jul 24, 2026

Poland commits $745 million to EU’s IRIS² constellation project

Jul 24, 2026

Mark Matossian co-founds Whipsmart Ventures to fund space and deep tech

Jul 24, 2026

Relativity Space to expand Terran R production in Florida

Jul 24, 2026

Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank

Jul 23, 2026

NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars

Jul 23, 2026

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Closes Out Space Station Mission

Jul 23, 2026

Will Bruey on rethinking the role of pharmaceuticals in low Earth orbit

Jul 23, 2026

Airbus space business takes advantage of growing demand for satellite systems

Jul 23, 2026

FCC approves sweeping space reforms while clearing more C-band for 5G

Jul 23, 2026

Vast establishes division for national security projects

Jul 23, 2026

The strategic competition with China: winning the multi-domain race

Jul 23, 2026

Olympic Mountain Glory

Jul 23, 2026

NASA to Showcase Agency’s Newest Wind Tunnel in Virginia

Jul 23, 2026

Robotic Servicing Mission Launches with NASA Support

Jul 23, 2026

NASA Joins Genesis Mission to Accelerate AI-Driven Discovery

Jul 23, 2026

China’s Shijian-31 satellite is sweeping GEO using a unique orbit

Jul 23, 2026

NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Return

Jul 22, 2026

A New Look – and Sound – for Messier 94

Jul 22, 2026

Mapping Io’s Hidden Heat With NASA’s Juno

Jul 22, 2026

NASA’s Juno Peers Beneath Io’s Surface

Jul 22, 2026

NASA’s Juno Takes Temperature of Jupiter’s Fiery Moon Io

Jul 22, 2026

A Week of Smoky Skies Across North America

Jul 22, 2026

NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica

Jul 22, 2026

NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month

Jul 22, 2026

US-India Satellite Delivers Data, Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica

Jul 22, 2026

NASA Langley Celebrates Community through Music with ‘Symphony Under the Stars’ Event

Jul 22, 2026

Zenno Astronautics to relocate to the United States

Jul 22, 2026

SpaceX launches Northrop mission to extend the life of aging satellites

Jul 22, 2026

Northrop adds to charges on Vulcan solid rocket motor program

Jul 22, 2026

NIAC 2026 Selections

Jul 21, 2026

Precision Astrometry Using Optically Independent Spacecraft for Graviational Wave Detection

Jul 21, 2026

Mapping Alien Continents: Achieving Optical VLBI for Exoplanet Imaging

Jul 21, 2026

Interworld Slingshot Resource Surveys

Jul 21, 2026

Robotically Assembled Electromagnetic Metamaterials for Long-Range Space Situational Awareness

Jul 21, 2026

Why Maine’s Sandy Shorelines Turn Jagged

Jul 21, 2026

NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 Mission to Space Station

Jul 21, 2026

NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration

Jul 21, 2026

New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights

Jul 21, 2026

Italian startup ORiS raises funding for laser power-beaming technology

Jul 21, 2026

SpaceX targets July 23 for crucial Starship Flight 13 test launch after abort

Jul 21, 2026

From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet

Jul 20, 2026

Our First View of the Surface of Mars

Jul 20, 2026

Shaping the Emerald City

Jul 20, 2026

Pipelines to payloads: risk management lessons for the space economy

Jul 20, 2026

AI rocket engine startup LegendSpace raises $29.5 million angel round

Jul 20, 2026

'Stranger Things' at 10: The Netflix streaming icon that made it cool to like science again

Jul 20, 2026

Scientists told them, 'No, it's too dangerous,' but they did it anyway: Inside Japan's super-close asteroid flyby

Jul 20, 2026

The Perseid meteor shower starts this week. Here's why you should look up now

Jul 20, 2026

'Aliens' at 40: Here are 26 reasons why James Cameron's sequel is still the greatest sci-fi action movie of all time

Jul 20, 2026

Earth's largest particle accelerator opens new window into the early universe just after the Big Bang: 'A culmination of a decades-long quest'

Jul 20, 2026

'The dawn of a new space era': Vikram-1, India's 1st private orbital rocket, aces debut launch

Jul 20, 2026

The Case of the Sun's Missing Silver

Jul 20, 2026

'Aliens' at 40: James Cameron's sequel is a sci-fi icon, but did you know he quit the movie twice?

Jul 19, 2026

Should we trust AI in the search for alien life? Scientists aren't so sure

Jul 19, 2026

How Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' turned general relativity into the bad guy

Jul 19, 2026

10 places in the US and Canada to see August's partial solar eclipse and Perseid meteor shower in 1 trip

Jul 19, 2026

James Webb Space Telescope discovers how black holes feed themselves

Jul 19, 2026

Mauritius becomes 70th nation to sign the Artemis Accords

Jul 19, 2026

Space Force triples launch contract ceiling amid rising demand

Jul 19, 2026

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 219 — SpaceX Goes to War!

Jul 19, 2026

'We knew we had a lot to live up to': As 'Aliens' turns 40, we chat to the legendary VFX masters who created the Alien Queen (interview)

Jul 19, 2026

Beyond the Perseids: 6 meteor showers worth watching this summer

Jul 19, 2026

Remembering 'Ulysses 31', the '80s cartoon that transported 'The Odyssey' to outer space

Jul 19, 2026

These 'metallic' dunes on Mars look like sci-fi. What are they really?

Jul 19, 2026

La NASA invita a los medios de comunicación al lanzamiento del telescopio espacial Roman

Jul 18, 2026

NASA Invites Media to Roman Space Telescope, Crew-13 Launches

Jul 18, 2026

NASA’s Psyche Mission Images Details of Martian Surface During Flyby

Jul 18, 2026

Pentagon awards $7.1 million to expand U.S. production of cover glass for satellites

Jul 18, 2026

Skyroot Aerospace reaches orbit on first Vikram-1 launch

Jul 18, 2026

Laying the groundwork for the first human mission to Mars

Jul 18, 2026

Satellite investment sets annual record halfway through 2026

Jul 18, 2026

Japan seeks to ramp up launch activity

Jul 18, 2026

Another reusable rocket? Japan launches, lands RV-X prototype (video)

Jul 18, 2026

NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits

Jul 18, 2026

The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches

Jul 18, 2026

Establishing a VTE Risk Score for Astronauts Algorithm

Jul 18, 2026

NASA Awards Facilities Support Services Contract for Ames Research Center

Jul 18, 2026

NASA’s Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula

Jul 18, 2026

NASA terminates Draper lunar lander mission

Jul 18, 2026

Swissto12 raises $70 million to accelerate small GEO satellite production

Jul 18, 2026

Commercial Space Federation Launches State and Local Council to Align States on National Space Capacity and Strengthen the U.S. Industrial Base

Jul 18, 2026

Startup working with University of Texas focuses on trapping small debris

Jul 18, 2026

Icarus Robotics taps KULR to provide batteries for Space Station robots

Jul 18, 2026

NASA Welcomes Mauritius as 70th Artemis Accords Signatory

Jul 17, 2026

SpaceX’s only problem is finding more space to work with

Jul 17, 2026

Serbia signs the Artemis Accords

Jul 17, 2026

Office of Space Commerce makes its case for mission authorization

Jul 17, 2026

Bluestaq Launches BLUESTAQ / ARQ Defense-Grade Data Infrastructure Now Available for Commercial, Government, and Enterprise Organizations

Jul 17, 2026

A Tide-Fueled Trove of Biodiversity in Guinea-Bissau

Jul 17, 2026

NASA Welcomes Serbia as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

Jul 17, 2026

NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet

Jul 17, 2026

SpaceX aborts Starship Flight 13 launch attempt

Jul 17, 2026

SpaceX launches 21 satellites for military data network

Jul 17, 2026

Nature study identifies a new way to spot nuclear weapons in orbit

Jul 17, 2026

Young Galaxy Cluster

Jul 16, 2026

Curiosity Finds Evidence of an Ancient Sandstorm

Jul 16, 2026

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Provides Sweeping View of Broom Point

Jul 16, 2026

Perseverance’s Trip to ‘Broom Point’

Jul 16, 2026

Defense Innovation Unit seeks commercial path to deliver electrical power from orbit

Jul 16, 2026

Building the infrastructure for a shifting space economy with Massi Ladovaz

Jul 16, 2026

Trump’s pick to lead Space Force defends plan to more than double budget

Jul 16, 2026