The captured image is an early step toward releasing Roman’s first science pictures in early 2027.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope may now have enough fuel for at least 22 years of science, more than double its original 10 year design life. An extremely precise course correction, extra fuel at launch, ...

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 ...

This is the next flagship space observatory.

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 launched to space on Sunday. With its unprecedented field of view—100 times that of the Hubble Space Telescope—Roman ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...