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Methane may not be as abundant in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but with a global warming potential many times greater than carbon dioxide, monitoring and controlling industrial emissions of this potent gas is impera...

A recently deployed DARPA CubeSat seeks to demonstrate technology that could improve imaging of distant objects in space and allow powerful space telescopes to fit into small satellites. DARPA's Deformable Mirror (DeMi) ...

Maj. Gen. Stephen Whiting, Maj. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, Maj. Gen. William Liquori and Maj. Gen. Nina M. Armagno have been nominated to receive a third star. SpaceNews

An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Artic Ocean....

Before our Solar System had planets, it had planetesimals. Scientists think that most of the meteorites that have struck Earth are fragments of these planetesimals. Scientists also think that these planetesimals either m...

For the first time ever, NASA's Perseverance rover will collect the sounds of Mars -- starting as the spacecraft plummets through the atmosphere to its landing site at Jezero Crater.

The summer's third and final mission to Mars--featuring NASA's most elaborate life-hunting rover--is on the verge of liftoff.

Radioactive plutonium is crucial for keeping this and other power-hungry deep-space missions warm and working for yeras on end --

Just over 45 years since the last American astronaut splashed down in the ocean, NASA and its partner SpaceX are set to land astronauts in the sea again on Aug. 2.

Remember back in 2008 when the Phoenix lander on Mars scraped away a few inches of rust-colored regolith to reveal water ice? Or in 2009, when Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observations revealed vast areas of subsurface ic...

If you plummeted into a black hole, your body would be ripped apart in a process called "spaghettification."

Extensive power outages and satellite blackouts that affect air travel and the internet are some of the potential consequences of massive solar storms. These storms are believed to be caused by the release of enormous am...

au, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new research by an international team from China, Australia and the University of British Columbia (UBC). The challenge? The location is one ...

NASA's newest Mars rover is called Perseverance, and it has already lived up to the name.

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

A spacecraft is only as strong as its power source, which is why when NASA was designing its Perseverance Mars rover, the agency turned to radioactive plutonium.

As NASA's latest Mars-bound rover readies for launch, we reflect on what we know about life on Mars.

A team of astronomers including Carnegie's Ting Li and Alexander Ji discovered a stellar stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by the Milky Way's gravity 2 billion years ago, ...

Some asteroids orbit the Sun in highly inclined orbits, and they might be aliens to our solar system. The post There Might Be an Entire Orbit, Filled with Asteroids that Came from Outside the Solar System appeared first ...

Latvia signed an Association Agreement with ESA on 30 June 2020. This Association Agreement between ESA and the Government of the Republic of Latvia, builds on the successful results achieved under the previous framework...

On July 30, a two-week window of opportunity opens for Perseverance--the newest Mars rover, forged in the spirit of human curiosity--to begin its journey toward the Red Planet with a launch from the Cape Canaveral Space ...

In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Dr. MEI Zhixing in Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues reported a Magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) numerical study on the coronal mass ...