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Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Dec. 5 deliberately pushed the world's largest rocket fuel tank beyond its design limits to really understand its breaking point....

Some of the most dramatic events in the universe occur when certain stars die--and explode catastrophically in the process.

When astronaut Charlie Duke walked on the Moon in April of 1972 during the Apollo 16 mission, he brought along a very personal memento with a message he wanted to leave behind.    "When I walked on the Moon, I took a p...

Folks with photosensitive epilepsy are warned to be careful when watching Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Carroll Spinney, the puppeteer who died on Sunday at age 85, didn't make it to space because Big Bird was too tall for the space shuttle.

As of Dec. 4th, the Yutu 2 rover element of the Chang'e-4 mission had traveled a total of over 345 m (377 yards) on the lunar surface. The post China’s Yutu-2 Rover has now Traveled Over 345 Meters Across the Surface o...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine showed off the completed core stage of the first ever Space Launch System rocket during a news event held today (Dec. 9).

The mission, dubbed ClearSpace-1, is slated to launch in 2025 to capture and deorbit a 100-kilogram Vespa payload adapter an Arianespace Vega left in orbit after deploying ESA's Proba-V remote-sensing satellite. SpaceNew...

A recent study suggests the landing site for NASA's next Mars rover holds minerals that often preserve fossils on Earth.

Members of a polar research expedition have provided researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development with an opportunity to study the effects of social isolation...

Scientists may have figured out how dust particles can stick together to form planets, according to a Rutgers co-authored study that may also help to improve industrial processes.

Saturn's moon Enceladus has mysterious, evenly spaced fissures in its icy shell where water erupts into space.

Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), and Pulkovo Observatory discovered a unique neutron star, the magnetic field of which is app...

Made In Space Europe is working to develop a mass-market, relatively low-cost robotic arm for off-Earth use -- a product that could accelerate humanity's exploration of the final frontier, company representatives believe...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is of great interest to scientists due to its subsurface ocean, making it a prime target for those searching for life elsewhere. New research led by Carnegie's Doug Hemingway reveals the physi...

NASA satellites, no matter the destination, have to communicate their data to mission control and scientists on Earth. These missions capture extraordinary data that make communications an essential part of each mission:...

Astronomers have conducted high-resolution spectroscopic observations of IRAS 18379-1707 (or LS 5112), a candidate post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) star in the Milky Way galaxy. Results of the observations provide...

ESA's latest space mission has reached orbit. The Qarman CubeSat flew to space aboard SpaceX's Dragon launched from Florida, U.S., on Thursday 5 December, ahead of a planned rendezvous with the International Space Statio...

Video: 00:02:41 Matyas Hazadi shares his YGT experience as a system engineer in the Lunar Resource Lander Team working in ESTEC, the Netherlands.

A Russian Progress freighter launched atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early this morning (Dec. 6), carrying 2.7 tons of food, propellant and other supplies toward the orbiting lab.

Near Space Labs unveiled an application programming interface Dec. 9 offering access to high-resolution imagery captured by cameras on weather balloons. SpaceNews.com

An unmanned Russian ship carrying tons of supplies successfully docked Monday with the International Space Station.