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A new study conducted by researchers from NWU has shown that bacteria do not mutate into super bugs. The post Extreme Bacteria on the Space Station are Evolving to Handle the Harsh Conditions, not to Make Astronauts Sick...

A Japanese research group has identified a giant streak structure among the clouds covering planet Venus based on observation from the spacecraft Akatsuki....

On January 8th, an important piece of equipment on the Hubble Space Telescope went down. The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) suspended its operations because of a hardware. The Hubble team is investigating the anomaly, and du...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has unveiled the first pictures of a retro-looking, steely rocket called Starship that may one day carry people to the Moon and Mars.

More than three years have passed since most of North America saw a good total lunar eclipse. So be sure to put a big circle on your calendar for Sunday, Jan. 20.

China made history earlier this month with the first successful soft landing on the far side of the moon -- and now, the mission has sent back an incredible panorama view of its work site.

SpaceX launched the final 10 Iridium Next satellites into orbit Jan. 11, completing its first mission of the year and last for its largest non-government customer, Iridium Communications. SpaceNews.com

Playing Captain Marvel required more than nine months of physical training.


Alara makes an important decision that affects the whole crew in Episode 3 of Season 2 of "The Orville."

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 Iridium Communications satellites has blasted off from California.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lofted 10 final Iridium Next satellites into orbit today (Jan. 11), completing a two-year, eight-launch contract between the two companies.

Researchers at Aalto University have developed a new technique which can be used for analysing fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field. The method presented in the Space Weather journal was used to study magnetic fiel...

Our week through the lens: 7 - 11 January 2019

On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of an interstellar object, named 1I/2017 U1 (aka. 'Oumuamua). In the months th...

Look at a galaxy, what do you see? Probably lots of stars. Nebulae too. And that's probably it. A whole bunch of stars and gas in a variety of colorful assortments; a delight to the eye. And buried among those stars, if ...

China on Friday hailed its historic mission to the far side of the moon as a "complete success" so far but said new challenges await its rover as it explores rugged terrain.

The energetic core of a distant galaxy blasts past the record for brightest object in the early universe, blazing with the light equivalent to 600 trillion suns.

India will send its first manned mission into space by December 2021, the head of the country's space agency said on Friday.

A brief and unusual flash spotted in the night sky on June 16, 2018, puzzled astronomers and astrophysicists across the globe. The event--called AT2018cow and nicknamed "the Cow" after the coincidental final letters in i...

ESA's high-energy space telescopes Integral and XMM-Newton have helped to find a source of powerful X-rays at the centre of an unprecedentedly bright and rapidly evolving stellar explosion that suddenly appeared in the s...

Assembly of the test-flight version of SpaceX's Mars-colonizing "Starship" vehicle is now complete, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced Thursday night (Jan. 10).

NASA's InSight Mars lander is officially hunting for quakes on the Red Planet.