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NASA has selected an official with NOAA's satellite division to lead its Earth science programs, a search that took more than a year to complete. SpaceNews.com

Poor, dim-witted humanity.

Using the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) technique, astronomers have probed the parsec-scale jet of a neutrino-emitting blazar known as TXS 0506+056. Results of the new study, presented May 1 on arXiv.org, shed...

Jupiter’s moon Europa is the smoothest object in the Solar System. There are no mountains, very few craters, and no valleys. It’s tallest features are isolated massifs up to 500 meters (1640 ft) tall. But its surface...

Space exploration technologies have already helped benefit Earth in many ways, especially when it comes to communications, Earth observation and even fostering economic growth.

In the photo book "The World at Night" (White Lion Publishing, 2019), astrophotographer and science journalist Babak Tafreshi takes readers on a curated trip that highlights dazzling night-sky views captured from around ...

Space.com readers not only enjoyed the spectacle but snapped some truly incredible photos of the full moon.

A Southwest Research Institute scientist modeled the atmosphere of Mars to help determine that salty pockets of water present on the Red Planet are likely not habitable by life as we know it on Earth. A team that also in...

Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two obj...

New research published today in the journal Nature Astronomy reveals a type of destructive event most often associated with disaster movies and dinosaur extinction may have also contributed to the formation of the Moon's...

A new study, based on data from ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatories, sheds new light on a three million light-year long bridge of hot gas linking two galaxy clusters, whose shape is being bent by the ...

Listen to the sound of BepiColombo's Earth flyby as captured in five recordings taken by two instruments aboard the Mercury Planetary Orbiter, one of the two orbiters comprising the joint European/Japanese Mercury explor...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

A rich variety of meteorological phenomena takes place in the extensive hydrogen atmosphere of Saturn, a world about 10 times the size of the Earth. They help us to better understand similar features in the Earth's atmos...

SpaceX's latest Starship prototype keeps passing tests, edging closer and closer to a highly anticipated test flight.

A new world has been confirmed in the Kepler-88 planetary system, tipping the scales at three-times the mass of solar system giant Jupiter.

It's always dark and stormy on Jupiter -- and now, scientists have gotten their most detailed view of the wild storms that swirl through the gas giant's atmosphere.

A group with more than 150 government and industry officials will recommend greater investments in space technology and education. SpaceNews.com

(Royal Ontario Museum) New research on a rock collected by the Apollo 17 astronauts has revealed evidence for a mineral phase that can only form above 2300 °C. Such temperatures are uniquely achieved in melt sheets foll...

(Royal Ontario Museum) Scientists from the Royal Ontario Museum have analysed a meteorite atom by atom to reveal the chemistry and acidity of the earliest fluids in the solar system. By finding evidence of sodium-rich al...

(Southwest Research Institute) A Southwest Research Institute scientist modeled the atmosphere of Mars to help determine that salty pockets of water present on the Red Planet are likely not habitable by life as we know i...

(University of Tokyo) In February and July of 2019, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. The readings it took with various instruments at those times have given resea...