KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation announced that it passed the NASA Authorization Act of 2026, which extends the operations of the International ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Speakers for the 2026 Advancing Space Exploration include: George Pollock- The principal director of the Architecture and Design Subdivision in the Systems Engineering Division at The Aerospace ...

Space sciences encompass the systematic study of the physical, chemical and dynamic properties of the Universe, from the near-Earth environment to the farthest reaches of intergalactic space. The ...

Live updates from SpaceX’s Sunday night Starlink 10-41 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Key infrastructure is currently on-hand to develop additional full-motion parabolic dish space-tracking systems—a 40-foot, a 24-foot, and two 20-foot diameter systems. These additional ground ...

The Kuiper Space Sciences Building, 1629 E. University Blvd., is named after Gerard P. Kuiper, “”who really started planetary science at the UA,”” said UA senior scientist Ed Beshore. Kuiper was born ...

The Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in space life and physical sciences with the research ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity streaming long, tentacle-like trails of gas and newborn stars as it speeds ...

The Space Science Center at Morehead State University has developed a full motion 21-Meter class antenna system that is engaged in a rigorous research program in radio astronomy and also serves as an ...

This story was produced by Science Friday and América Futura as part of our “Astronomy: Made in Latin America” newsletter and series. It is available in Spanish here. Sally Ride went down in history, ...