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Recently, a batch of baked chocolate chip cookies returned from space, signifying a major step forward towards the future of how humans will eat and thrive in space.

It's mind-boggling to think about anything in terms of infinity.

It’s that time again! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

Lockheed Martin will acquire the satellite technology assets of Vector by default after a bankruptcy court received no qualified bids by a deadline last week. SpaceNews.com

After an usual period of dimming Betelgeuse is growing brighter. But no supernova yet. The post Betelgeuse Is Brightening Again appeared first on Universe Today.

The Expedition 62 crew spent Monday on a variety of human research activities while also exploring Earth from the vantage point of the International Space Station....

The developers of Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak have announced a new game, coming to Early Access this summer.

17-year-old high school student Wolf Cukier made a major discovery on the third day of his NASA internship, when he noticed the telltale signs of a distant planet orbiting two stars.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The NASA and DLR InSight lander has been on Mars for over a year now. The mission has faced significant challenges getting its HP3 (Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package) into the subsurface, but the spacecraft’s o...

Good news: Though we've been going through a cometary dry spell as of late, we may have our first good naked eye comet for 2020: Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS. The post Comet Y4 Atlas in Outburst: First Good Comet for 2020? appe...

Tesla's futuristic Cybertruck is now a Hot Wheels toy. And it comes complete with a "cracked window sticker," so you can relive some of the vehicle's wildest moments.

A new virus called SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus that has caused an outbreak of a disease called COVID-19. But what does that have to do with Mars?

Kerbal Space Program 2 may have been delayed, but that hasn't slowed down development or the dreams of a billion tiny green things.

Permafrost plays an important role in the global climate and is also one of the components of the Earth system that is most sensitive to global warming. Maps, produced by ESA's Climate Change Initiative, are providing ne...

How can you see something that's invisible? Well, with Euclid! This future ESA telescope will map the structure of the universe and teach us more about invisible dark matter and dark energy. Scientific coordinator of Euc...

Florida students will have an opportunity this week to talk with a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge:

Image: Suited up for gravity

A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published today reveal a planet alive with quakes, dust devils and ...

The space agency’s adoption of dual-anonymous review for certain science programs seeks to ensure proposals are judged on merit alone --

A team of astrophysicists led by Ph.D. student Mike Lau, from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), recently predicted that gravitational waves of double neutron stars may be detected by ...