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About 2.4 billion years ago, everything changed for Earth. That was the time of the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), when photosynthetic bacteria flooded the atmosphere with oxygen, banishing early, non-oxygen using lifeform...

Today, stars fill the night sky. But when the universe was in its infancy, it contained no stars at all. And an international team of scientists is closer than ever to detecting, measuring and studying a signal from this...

Looking deep into the universe, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope catches a passing glimpse of the numerous arm-like structures that sweep around this barred spiral galaxy, known as NGC 2608. Appearing as a slightly st...

NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh $199.5 million to deliver NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the moon's South Pole in late 2023.

Elon Musk recently revealed more details about the HLS Starship, which could be taking astronauts back to the Moon. The post How SpaceX is Changing Starship to be Able to Land on the Moon appeared first on Universe Today...

You may be able to help NASA's Curiosity rover drivers better navigate Mars. Using the online tool AI4Mars to label terrain features in pictures downloaded from the Red Planet, you can train an artificial intelligence al...

An ocean observation satellite soared into space from China's Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the country's north Shanxi Province on Thursday (June 11).

The NASA official who managed the inaugural private crewed flight into space last month has been promoted to become the first female head of human spaceflight, the agency said Friday, as it prepares to return people to t...

In the next 24 hours, rockets from Interstellar Technologies, Rocket Lab and SpaceX will launch from three different countries in a space age triple-header. Here's how to watch.

How hyperbolic geometry, once considered mathematical heresy, could help us understand human perception.

The annual Mars City Design Challenge is looking for new and innovative ideas for how humans could live sustainably on Mars. The post Ideas for Sustainable Cities and Urban Farming… on Mars? appeared first on Universe ...

NASA has selected the longtime manager of its commercial crew program to be the next head of its overall human spaceflight efforts. SpaceNews.com

NASA has picked Kathy Lueders to lead its Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, the office working to get astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars.

Like most galaxies, the Milky Way hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. Called Sagittarius A*, the object has captured astronomers' curiosity for decades. And now there is an effort to image it directly.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Friday selected Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders to be the agency's next associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate. Since 20...

The first-ever all-female 45th Weather Squadron will be assessing the weather for SpaceX's upcoming Starlink launch.

The ESAIL microsatellite for tracking ships worldwide--developed under an ESA Partnership Project--has completed its accommodation on Vega's new dispenser for small satellites and is ready for launch.

NASA's pioneering New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far that its view of the cosmos is noticeably different than ours.

Far beyond the orbits of the planets are the hazy outlines of the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble in space that we call home. This flexible cosmic bubble stretches and shrinks in response to the sun's gasps and sighs.

Week in images: 8-12 June 2020 Discover our week through the lens

Millions of people watched breathlessly as astronauts for the first time successfully travelled to the International Space Station (ISS) in a privately funded spacecraft, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule,...

The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 58 new Starlink satellites to join its ever-growing broadband internet megaconstellation in orbit Saturday (June 13).