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A camera on the spacecraft's robotic arm snapped the photos on April 24 and 25, the 145th Martian day, or sol, of the mission....

The U.S. Navy plans to set up an official reporting and investigative system that will monitor reports from its pilots about UFOs.

The XENON experiment recently made a breakthrough in their hunt for dark matter, observing the most rare decay process in the Universe that involves neutrinos. The post Dark Matter Detector Finds the Rarest Event Ever Se...

Today’s breed of billionaire space entrepreneurs likes to keep us guessing, don’t they? Mr. Elon Musk is famous for announcing partial plans on Twitter, then leaving us to cajole the details out of him. Now, Jim Bezo...

Take a 360-degree tour of a supernova, thanks to this epic new Smithsonian graphic.

Nye warned that catastrophic impacts like the one that offed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago are not confined to the past.

A used SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to launch on a robotic resupply mission to the International Space Station Friday (May 3) at 3:11 a.m. EDT. Watch it live here.

A new study has illustrated how the impact between a proto-Earth and a Mars-sized object could have led the Moon to be composed primarily of the same material as Earth. The post When the Impact that Created the Moon Happ...

The two contenders to build Telesat's constellation of broadband satellites have nearly finalized their designs and will submit proposals in the coming months, Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg said May 2. SpaceNews.com

A new signal detected by LIGO/Virgo may be the so-called ‘holy grail’ of astrophysics: the merger of a neutron star and a black hole. They’ve discovered pairs of black holes merging, and pairs of neutron stars merg...

Which of Earth's features were essential for the origin and sustenance of life? And how do scientists identify those features on other worlds?

Never heard of the Eta Aquarid meteors? 2019 offers a good chance to check out this normally obscure meteor shower. 2019: The Prospects This year offers an especially good chance to spy these fast-moving meteors. First o...

A SpaceX executive May 3 provided new details about, but no cause of, an incident that destroyed a Crew Dragon spacecraft during a ground test last month. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX finally confirmed Thursday its crew capsule was destroyed in ground testing two weeks ago and conceded that the accident is "not great news" for the company's effort to launch astronauts this year.

Loft Orbital, a company preparing a constellation to carry payloads for customers who don't want to operate their own satellites, has filled up its first satellite and booked a January 2020 launch through Spaceflight Ind...

Astronauts on future long-duration spaceflight missions to the Moon and Mars could rely on microalgae to supply essentials including food, water and oxygen. A new investigation aboard the International Space Station test...

India braces as Tropical Cyclone Fani approaches the country's east coast

With human and sample-return missions to Mars still on the drawing board, geologists wishing to study the red planet rely on robotic helpers to collect and analyse samples. Earlier this year we said goodbye to NASA's Opp...

Astronomers have assembled a mosaic of nearly 7,500 images of one part of the sky, creating the largest and most comprehensive history book of the universe.

The International Space Station is back up at full power, after the successful replacement of a failed electrical box.

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on its latest test flight May 2, a flight that the company says brings it one step closer to flying humans later this year. SpaceNews.com

Gaia, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA, surveys the sky from orbit to create the largest, most precise, three-dimensional map of our Galaxy. One year ago, the Gaia mission produced its much-awaited second data ...