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NASA is seeking ideas from scientists on the research astronauts could carry out on the first Artemis lunar landing mission in 2024. SpaceNews

A small, soft smacked into Costa Rica on April 23, 2019. And it carried dust older than our sun, as well as clues regarding how life formed on Earth.

Venus has been garnering a lot of attention lately, though primarily in the scientific community, as the last Hollywood movie about the planet was released in the 1960s. This is in part due to its dramatic difference fro...

Mobile fans of "Star Trek Fleet Command" can now play characters from every Trek timeline.

Many Iowa farmers suddenly saw their crops flattened after a set of strong thunderstorms battered the state this month, NASA reported while sharing satellite images of the damage.

Satellite operator Orbcomm, smallsat builder AAC Clyde Space, and Swedish aerospace contractor Saab are working on a demonstration cubesat for maritime communications that could mark the beginning of a new constellation,...

An early space shuttle mockup qualified as an "American Treasure" worthy of preservation and a half-a-million-dollar federal grant.

NASA has awarded 14 planning grants to Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) through its Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP), part of the agency's Office of STEM Engagement.

SpaceX has fired up the latest prototype of its Starship Mars-colonizing spacecraft, keeping the vehicle on track for a possible test flight this weekend.

NROL-44 is the first of the final five missions to be flown by Delta 4 Heavy between now and 2024 SpaceNews

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner argues that contracting provisions he added to a draft NASA authorization act last year would help safeguard U.S. space technology against Chinese efforts to steal it. SpaceNews

Inside a white dwarf, atoms are squeezed almost to the point of collape. Now we've created this matter in a lab. The post Scientists Recreate the Density of a White Dwarf in the Lab appeared first on Universe Today.

In a year of devastating wildfires, destructive derechos, early and active hurricanes, widespread social unrest, contentious politics and more — all amid an unprecedented global pandemic — it might seem fitting that ...

One of Earth's five mass extinction events may have been triggered by the violent death of a distant star, a new study suggests.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Social media around the world lit up over the weekend, discussing the possibility that an asteroid (known as 2018 VP₁) could crash into Earth on November 2.

The optics of the Celestron Ambassador 80AZ are of good quality, promoting a high level of clarity and contrast. Easy to set up, the also refractor exudes an unusual yet superior craftmanship

If you've seen a worrying headline about an asteroid passing too close for comfort on Nov. 2, the day before the U.S. heads to the polls, NASA wants you to take a deep breath and relax.

When it comes to places with the potential for habitability, Venus isn't usually on that list. The hot, greenhouse-effect-gone-mad neighboring planet with a crushing surface pressure and sulfuric acid clouds certainly is...

Many resources essential to the technology on which we depend are dwindling or are increasingly inaccessible to certain nations for geopolitical reasons. A case in point is that several of the rare metallic elements that...

Astronomers have reported the discovery of a new galactic supernova remnant (SNR) in the Cepheus constellation. The newly detected SNR is relatively large and optically bright, but faint in radio and X-ray bands. The fin...

Spacecraft made of carbon-foam bubbles could zoom from Earth to Alpha Centauri in 185 years, driven solely by the power of the sun, a new study finds.