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A microphone aboard the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, which will touch down in February 2021, captured the whirring sound made by part of the robot's heating system.

A team from UT Austin has renewed a proposal for a liquid-mirror telescope on the Moon that could study the first stars in the Universe. The post A 100-Meter Rotating Liquid Mirror Telescope on the Moon? Yes Please. appe...

Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys' Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) have discovered a "fossil galaxy" hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way.

Although astronomers have been studying galaxy IC 5063 for decades, it took a non-scientist to make the surprising discovery....

After suffering severe damage from broken cables that cannot be readily repaired, the observatory’s enormous radio telescope is now slated for “controlled decommissioning” --

Video: 00:03:23 In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over the Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, US, where the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite w...

According to NASA, an object detected between the Earth and Moon could actually be the spent stage of a rocket booster from the early Space Age. The post Earth and the Moon Might Have Captured an Old Upper Stage Rocket a...

Hyperspectral satellite startup Orbital Sidekick (OSK) announced a contract Nov. 19 to work with an industry-led consortium to develop tools for monitoring of oil and gas pipelines. SpaceNews

Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, Attila, Boudica, and Genghis Khan: Their missing tombs remain unsolved archeological mysteries.

While Joe Biden is a familiar figure in politics, after decades in the Senate and eight years as Barack Obama's vice president, his views on space, and his plans for NASA, are far less clear. SpaceNews

With regard to space and its importance to national security, analysts and industry insiders believe the incoming Biden administration will largely stay the course. SpaceNews

The German Aerospace Center, DLR, has partnered with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on a planned low-cost asteroid mission called Destiny+, expected to launch toward the asteroid 3200 Phaethon in 2024. Spa...

Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars' equator around 4 billion years ago--a finding that hints at the possibility that life may have existed there, according to data collected by NASA'...

"Star Trek: Discovery" episode 6, entitled "Scavengers" sees Burnham and Georgiou embark on a rogue mission to find Book, leaving Saru to pick up the pieces.

The first season of "The Right Stuff" comes to an end with the flight of the first American into space.

In 1838, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel won the race to measure the first distance to a star other than our Sun via the trigonometric parallax--setting the first scale of the universe.

Just after sunset on the evening of Dec. 21, Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer together in Earth's night sky than they have been since the Middle Ages, offering people the world over a celestial treat to ring in the ...

OneWeb announced Nov. 20 that its sale to an ownership group led by Bharti Global and the British government has closed, allowing the company to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a new chief executive. SpaceNews

Visible matter constitutes only 16% of the universe's total mass. Little is known about the nature of the rest of that mass, which referred to as dark matter. Even more surprising is the fact that the universe's total ma...

Week in images: 16-20 November 2020 Discover our week through the lens

The 10th high-level EU/ESA Space Council took place on Friday 20 November 2020 with the topic 'Orientations on the European contribution in establishing key principles for the global space economy'.

A bright green meteor streaked across the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia, and researchers caught the fireball on camera as it broke up over the ocean.