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'SALLY' premieres at Sundance with Sally Ride's family, astronaut in audience

30 January, 2025 - 14:00
National Geographic premiered "SALLY," Cristina Costantini's new documentary about the first U.S. woman in space and her untold love, at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Tuesday (Jan. 28).

How did life's building blocks end up on dwarf planet Ceres?

30 January, 2025 - 12:00
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Watch NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore perform spacewalk outside the ISS today (video)

30 January, 2025 - 06:01
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to begin U.S. Spacewalk 92 early Jan. 30.

SpaceX Starlink satellite sparks brilliant fireball as it falls from space over US (videos)

29 January, 2025 - 23:11
A SpaceX Starlink internet satellite fell from space in a blaze of glory overnight, lighting up the Midwest U.S. sky with a brilliant fireball.

NASA X-ray telescope Chandra discovers black holes 'blow' on their food to cool it down

29 January, 2025 - 23:00
Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward them in a cosmic feeding process.

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches next-gen SpainSat NG-1 satellite into orbit

29 January, 2025 - 22:10
SpaceX launches next generation Spanish communications satellite on Wednesday evening (Jan. 29).

NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that means

29 January, 2025 - 22:02
NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space rock Bennu.

Trump administration's funding freeze attempt could have stalled $1.2 billion in NASA spending

29 January, 2025 - 22:00
A memo issued by the Trump administration has frozen $1.2 billion in funding for NASA programs ranging from science to space operations.

Astronaut Hall of Fame to honor Bernard Harris and Peggy Whitson in May

29 January, 2025 - 20:57
The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame will honor its 2025 class of inductees, record-setting space travelers Peggy Whitson and Bernard Harris, at a public ceremony in Florida this spring.

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab opens doors after LA fires, helps firefighter helicopters refuel

29 January, 2025 - 17:00
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab begins normal operations after devastating LA fires as hundreds of employees who were displaced begin rebuilding their lives.

January new moon 2025: The young moon visits Venus and Saturn

29 January, 2025 - 16:00
The young January moon will pass near Saturn and near Venus as they cluster together in the evening sky.

Earth-observing company Planet signs $230 million deal for fleet of new Pelican satellites

29 January, 2025 - 15:00
The Earth-observation company Planet just inked its largest deal to date, a $230 million contract to deliver a fleet of its new Pelican satellites.

Warhammer 40,000 animation 'Astartes II' looks stunningly brutal in new trailer

29 January, 2025 - 14:49
In the grim darkness of the 21st century, at least we have this awesome Warhammer 40,000 'Astartes II' trailer to watch

Trump asks Elon Musk to return 2 Starliner astronauts from the ISS for NASA —but they already have a SpaceX ride home

29 January, 2025 - 13:16
President Trump just asked Elon Musk to retrieve two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station. But the duo are already slated to come home with SpaceX this spring.

Happy Lunar New Year 2025! Chinese astronauts send Year of the Snake greeting from Tiangong space station (video)

29 January, 2025 - 12:00
As billions of people worldwide celebrate the Lunar New Year, astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station sent home a holiday greeting.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander snaps its 1st photos of the moon (images)

28 January, 2025 - 23:00
The moon has come into view for Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft, which is scheduled to land on Earth's nearest neighbor a month or so from now.

India launches navigation satellite into orbit on nation's 1st mission of 2025

28 January, 2025 - 22:01
India launched the NVS-02 regional navigation satellite to orbit this evening (Jan. 28), the 100th liftoff from the nation's Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

Satellites watch world's largest iceberg on crash course with Antarctic penguin island (photo/video)

28 January, 2025 - 21:00
The mega-iceberg poses a significant threat to South Georgia Island a remote wildlife haven.

Blue Origin scrubs landmark New Shepard moon-gravity launch due to weather, rocket glitch

28 January, 2025 - 19:23
Blue Origin scrubbed the planned 29th launch of its New Shepard suborbital rocket today (Jan. 28) due to uncooperative weather and a vehicle issue.

'Star Trek: Section 31' goes back to Trek's 'space western' roots to tell a 'Clint Eastwood' story (exclusive)

28 January, 2025 - 19:00
An exclusive interview with 'Section 31's' Alex Kurtzman and Olatunde Osunsanmi

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