Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has been awarded a NASA single award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at up to $25 million over five years to provide biotechnology facilities, mission integration, and on-orbit operations support aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The arrangement allows NASA to issue future task orders without limit or minimum requirement.

The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the Sun into two groups, tracing each back to a different kind of outburst from our star.

The White House has moved to eliminate employee unions at NASA, among other agencies, on national security grounds.

Image: Webb observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

President Trump’s recent executive order promoting commercial space competition highlights America’s unique advantage in the final frontier: our dynamic commercial space sector.

Rocket Lab moved a step closer to the first launch of its Neutron rocket Aug.

Washington DC (UPI) Aug 28, 2025
The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers learn new information about how the Earth may have been formed as it gives a deeper look into the Butterfly Nebula. The telescope saw the creation of tiny planetary building blocks around a dead star, as it saw cosmic dust particles that create planets around young stars forming for the first time. "For years, scientists have

Raleigh NC (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
Researchers at North Carolina State University have introduced Rainbow, a fully automated multi-robot laboratory that discovers high-performance quantum dots at unprecedented speed. The system merges robotics with artificial intelligence to perform up to 1,000 experiments per day, dramatically reducing the time needed for new materials discovery. "Rainbow brings together multiple robots wo

For this new Picture of the Month feature, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided a fantastic new view of IRAS 04302+2247, a planet-forming disc located about 525 light-years away in a dark cloud within the Taurus star-forming region. With Webb, researchers can study the properties and growth of dust grains within protoplanetary discs like this one, shedding light on the earliest stages of planet formation.

SAN FRANCISCO – Viridian Space Corp. won a $1.25 million award from the U.S. Air Force for very low Earth orbit (VLEO) electric-propulsion technology.