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This week's edition features the confluence of the Negro and Solimões rivers in the Amazon Basin

A NASA satellite orbiting the Moon passed over the site where the Indian probe Vikram should have made touchdown earlier this month, but didn't see the missing lander, the US space agency said.

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SpaceX has mated the top and bottom halves of the Starship Mk1 vehicle at its South Texas facilities, Elon Musk said today (Sept. 27).

A team of Japanese researchers have used sperm from mice that spent time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to fertilize female mice back on Earth. While previous research has shown that freeze-dried mouse sper...

NASA has awarded contracts to Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Messer LLC of Bridgewater, New Jersey, to supply gaseous and liquid helium.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the 'meeting of waters' in Brazil - where the Rio Negro and the Solimões River meet to form the Amazon River....

For the first time ever, astronomers have taken the compositional measure of an interstellar interloper.

NASA has selected 14 American companies as partners whose technologies will help enable the agency's Moon to Mars exploration approach.

A brand-new "astrotourism" destination has just been born in the heart of Portugal, at Aldeias do Xisto, or the Schist Villages.

There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missions like NASA's WFIRST space telescope, according to new models of gas giant planet formation...

NASA recently tasked a company to open production on the spacecraft that will bring astronauts to the moon as part of the Artemis program.

The United Arab Emirates has released postage stamps commemorating its first astronaut's flight into space, 55 years after doing the same to honor international space travelers.

Russian cosmonaut Gennadi Manakov, who commanded two Soyuz missions to the former space station Mir, has died at the age of 69.

The 2019 IPCC special report details the most up-to-date realities of climate change and shows how it's progressing faster than expected.

New shapeshifting robots could give us access to distant worlds like never before -- including the soupy moon Titan in Saturn's neighborhood.

An international team of astronomers, including Queen's University Belfast researchers, have made a historic discovery, detecting gas molecules in a comet which has tumbled into our solar system from another star.

Will the sun become a black hole? No, it's too small for that!

Our week through the lens: 23 - 27 September 2019

Radio observations at metre-centimetre wavelengths shed light on the nature of the emission of HII regions. Usually, this category of objects is dominated by thermal radiation produced by ionised hydrogen, namely protons...

The discovery of yet another exoplanet is no longer news. More than 4,000 planets around other stars have now been found since the detection of the first one in 1995. As astronomers long suspected, or at least hoped, it ...

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