NASA’s newest space telescope has taken its first look at the stars. The view is blurry for now, but that is exactly what ...

From portable radars in shipping containers to orbital cameras, I asked scientists how the space-junk tracking industry plans ...

Universities Space Research Association (USRA) contributed planetary science expertise, lunar dataset development, and scientific evaluation to the newly released NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an ...

A pocket-sized, roughly $100 detector can reveal the invisible stream of cosmic particles constantly passing through Earth ...

China has presented lunar samples retrieved by its Chang'e 6 mission from the far side of the moon to the United Nations, marking a landmark contribution to global space science and the peaceful ...

After more than a decade of development, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is at last set to launch this weekend. With its unprecedented field of view—100 times that of the Hubble Space ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the future of astronautics and space technologies. That visibility naturally invites a follow-on question: what comes next ...

In June, the White House released a budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 that slashed funding for NASA’s science programs by nearly 50 percent. Then, in July, the Trump administration began telling ...

Space Science Week is the joint meeting of the Space Studies Board of the U.S. National Academies discipline committees in collaboration with the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Board on ...

Ghana and Japan are exploring deeper cooperation in space science, technology and innovation, with both countries ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took flight with a teacher on board. Christa McAuliffe, the first educator ...