The United States Space Force (USSF) is the sixth, smallest, and newest military service branch, created in 2019 from the Department of the Air Force. It consists of about 9,400 active-duty members, ...

Members of the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron render a salute during a change of command ceremony at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, June 15, 2026. During the ceremony, Lt. Col. Keturah Onukwuli ...

The fresh impact crater measures at 60 feet wide and 10 feet deep. A thick layer of dust from the impact may have served as "cosmetic fillers." A puzzling detection by NASA's Europa Clipper sparked a ...

At the center of our solar system, the sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent studies, scientists uncovered how ancient events in the sun's history may have helped create Earth's ...

Aug. 13, 2026 NASA’s Perseverance rover caught a striking first from Mars: Earth disappearing behind the tiny moon Phobos. Seen from nearly 195 million miles away, our planet was reduced to a single ...

A NASA-led team hopes to take a shortcut to direct imaging of extrasolar Earth-like planets. The idea is to use what they call a hybrid telescope composed of an orbital starshade coupled with the next ...

The Milky Way, a large and spiral-shaped galaxy that is home to hundreds of billions of stars including our sun, has taken a long and complicated path to achieve its current dimensions, as illustrated ...

Pluto is now the most well known of the outer worlds beyond Neptune—and the darling of the solar system Earth’s Organisms Developed Via Evolution. Some Theorists Wonder: What if the Entire Cosmos Did, ...

SpaceX will set a new rocket-reuse record early Tuesday morning (Aug. 25), on its 100th Falcon 9 flight of the year. You can watch the action live. China has delayed its ambitious ice-hunting Chang'e ...

Currently, 13 member states have national space regulations in place, and others are currently preparing to pass their own space legislation. To prevent further fragmentation of the market and ...

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