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China’s first emergency mission to its Tiangong space station has turned a routine program into a live test of crisis response, and it passed that test in a way that will not go unnoticed in ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The aging infrastructure of the Deep Space Network is operating at capacity and in desperate need of an upgrade. The latest news isn't helping. Reading time 3 minutes A massive antenna used to ...

A problem with the Mars Antenna, a giant NASA radio dish in California, has disrupted the Deep Space Network's spacecraft communication efforts, as well as asteroid studies, since Sept. 16, 2025.

The 70-meter antenna, designated DSS-14, at the Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, California. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — One of the largest antennas in NASA’s Deep Space Network was damaged in ...

For 13 consecutive years, NASA has been named the “Best Place to Work in the Federal Government” among large agencies. But since the Trump administration took over and proposed deep budget cuts, there ...

The partnership between NASA and Nvidia didn’t start with artificial intelligence in mind. Back in 2003, when NASA approached the graphics company to create a photorealistic Mars simulation, nobody ...

The dark web often feels like a mystery, hidden beneath the surface of the internet that most people use every day. But to understand how scams and cybercrimes actually work, you need to know what ...

While flying over Greenland and using advanced radar technology to map the continent's ice, NASA scientists discovered something incredible, an abandoned Cold-War-era U.S. military base 100 feet under ...