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CHEOPS keeps its promise: Observations with the space telescope have revealed details of the exoplanet WASP-189b--one of the most extreme planets known. CHEOPS is a joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Sw...

Video: 00:01:00 ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has discovered several ponds of liquid water buried under the ice in the south polar region of Mars. The spacecraft's radar instrument, MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsur...

ESA's 2020 Φ-week event kicked off this morning with a series of stimulating speeches on Digital Twin Earth, updates on Φ-sat-1, which was successfully launched into orbit earlier this month, and an exciting new initia...

Patient "Star Trek" fans have waited 55 years for Captain Christopher Pike to have his own series -- and that series will finally launch in just a few months.

NASA recently highlighted some collaborations between the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes.

Using the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an international team of astronomers has investigated a recently discovered X-ray transient designated MAXI J1348'630. Results of the new observations suggest...

New research adds fresh evidence for salty lakes below the red planet's south pole.

An epic series of satellite images shows smokes from the California wildfires clashing with hurricanes in the Eastern United States and Gulf Coast.

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will vote in the upcoming presidential election from space.

Researchers say they have detected a group of lakes hidden under the Red Planet's icy surface --

Climate archivists have found the coldest day ever in the Northern Hemisphere, set by Greenland in 1991

A network of salty ponds may be gurgling beneath Mars' South Pole alongside a large underground lake, raising the prospect of tiny, swimming Martian life.

We finally know what kind of radiation environment future moonwalkers will be stepping into.

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has given us another gorgeous picture of Jupiter and its moon Europa. The incredibly sharp image was captured on August 25th, and shows some of the stunning detail in Jupiter’s stor...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says the landing system and rocket for Artemis need to be ready next year for the agency to achieve a crewed moon landing in 2024.

A top goal in cosmology is to precisely measure the total amount of matter in the universe, a daunting exercise for even the most mathematically proficient. A team led by scientists at the University of California, River...

World Space Week is held each year from Oct. 4 to Oct. 10, and this year's programming will focus on satellites.

Here's something we don't see very often: an Earth-grazing meteoroid. On September 22, 2020, a small space rock skipped through Earth's atmosphere and bounced back into space. The meteoroid was spotted by the by a camera...

SpaceX postponed the launch of a new fleet of Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 28) due to bad weather at the mission's Florida launch site.

Congress for years has been critical of the U.S. Air Force's weather satellite programs. SpaceNews

The latest batch of tiny satellites to monitor trade on Earth from space have launched.

NASA has selected SpaceX to launch a space science mission and several secondary payloads, the latest in a series of wins by SpaceX for NASA science missions. SpaceNews