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Strange behavior in Earth's magnetic field over the South Atlantic region can be traced back as far as 11 million years ago, and it's unlikely to cause any impending reversal of Earth's magnetic field, a new study shows.

A new study by an international team of astronomers and cosmologists has used globular clusters to come up with new estimate for the age of the Universe. The post According to Globular Clusters, the Universe is 13.35 Bil...

Virgin Galactic lifts the veil on SpaceShipTwo's passenger cabin today (July 28) and you can watch it live online. Here's how.

Passengers flying Virgin Galactic on suborbital trips into space will be able to see themselves floating weightless against the backdrop of the Earth below while 16 cameras document the adventures, the company said Tuesd...

Hughes Network Systems, an original OneWeb investor, said July 27 it would put $50 million into the consortium that is purchasing OneWeb out of bankruptcy protection. SpaceNews

A Mars orbiter run by the European Space Agency (ESA) has sniffed out two never-before-seen chemical signatures in the Red Planet's atmosphere.

The newest branch of the US Military has a logo and a motto now. The mottos is Semper Supra, meaning ‘Always Above’. The logo’s main feature is a delta wing design. The US Space Force is still in its infancy, after...

Perseverance is set to launch this Thursday (July 30) for a seven month journey to Mars.

Exoplanets have been a particularly hot topic of late. More than 4000 of them have been discovered since the first in 1995. Now one more can potentially be added to the list. This one is orbiting Gliese 3470, a red dwarf...

Virgin Galactic just revealed the cabin interior of the six-passenger SpaceShipTwo, which is designed to carry people and payloads on brief trips to suborbital space.

A global collaboration of telescopes including ESA's Integral high-energy space observatory has detected a unique mix of radiation bursting from a dead star in our galaxy--something that has never been seen before in thi...

China's first Mars probe has beamed back a photo of the Earth and the Moon as it heads toward its destination, the country's space agency said Tuesday.

A summary of the first Soviet crewed spaceflight program, Vostok, and its many missions.

Like all other technologies, satellite technology has grown in leaps and bounds in the past couple decades. Satellites can monitor Earth in increasingly high resolutions, aiding everything from storm forecasting, to clim...

Inhofe said he would block O'Rielly until the nominee "publicly commits to vote to overturn the current Ligado order." SpaceNews

SpaceX's Crew-2 mission has its astronauts.

Space Camp may soon be forced to count down to its final launch. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center, which has been home to Space Camp since 1982, is at risk of permanently closing due to the pandemic.

The composition of Antarctic micrometeorites and other tiny but precious rocks such as those from space missions--is really hard to analyze without some sample loss. But a new technique should make it easier, cheaper and...

NASA is sending its Perseverance rover to the red planet with two pieces of Martian meteorite that were discovered on Earth.

A car-sized asteroid discovered over the weekend flew by Earth today (July 28) at a range close to the orbits of some satellites.

A new summer series called Summer Reading Meets Citizen Science is designed to keep students and adults engaged with reading and research to prevent "summer slide" learning loss.

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