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NASA Clears Smartphones for Space on Crew-12 and Artemis II

An accelerated qualification push will put fully certified iPhones in astronauts’ hands to document missions for families and the public.

Juno Data Refine Jupiter’s Size, Finding the Giant Slightly Smaller and More Flattened

SpaceX Pauses Falcon 9 Flights After Upper-Stage Anomaly on Vandenberg Starlink Mission

New Jupiter Model Finds More Oxygen and Far Slower Atmospheric Mixing

Crew-12 Astronauts in Final Quarantine as SpaceX Dragon Launch Targeted for Feb. 11

Blue Origin Pauses New Shepard for Two Years to Accelerate Moon Lander and New Glenn Work

NASA Moves Artemis II Earliest Launch Opportunity to Feb. 8 After Weather Delay

TESS Reobserves Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS After Safe-Mode Gap

Juno Sounding Finds Europa’s Outer Ice Layer Averages 18 Miles Thick in Surveyed Region

Machine Learning Maps 400 Bright Slope Streaks on Mercury, Hinting at Ongoing Volatile Loss

Solar Orbiter Study Finds Large Solar Flare Triggered by 'Magnetic Avalanche'

SPHEREx Finds Interstellar 3I/ATLAS Has Become a Fully Active Comet After Perihelion

SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites From Florida as Two West Coast Missions Line Up

NASA Confirms Pandora Exoplanet Observatory Is Healthy After Launch, Begins Commissioning

SpaceX Targets Starlink 6-98 Launch From Cape Canaveral Today as Weather Remains Uncertain

Far-Side Moon Samples Link South Pole–Aitken Impact to Lunar Asymmetry

SpaceX Debuts 'Twilight' Rideshare, Deploys About 40 Smallsats to Dusk–Dawn Orbit

Hubble Confirms First Starless Dark-Matter Cloud, ‘Cloud-9,’ a Predicted RELHIC

Bipartisan Spending Bill Restores Science Budgets, Gives NASA $24.4 Billion

Record 94-Day Watch of Solar Region That Drove 2024’s Fiercest Storms