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China's Chang'e 5 lander has returned its first panorama from its landing site on the moon.

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A Chinese spacecraft took samples of the moon's surface Wednesday as part of a mission to bring lunar rocks back to Earth for the first time since the 1970s, the government said, adding to a string of successes for Beiji...

Lockheed Martin announced Dec. 2 it has competed production of the fifth satellite of the Space Based Infrared System constellation. SpaceNews

(Rutgers University) The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of thick ice sheets fueled by geothermal heat, a Rutgers-led study c...

Gut-wrenching pictures and video documented the beginning of the end for the Arecibo Observatory, one of the world's most iconic telescopes.

China this week is conducting a robotic lunar sample return mission, something the United States has never done. The mission is proceeding while a Chinese lunar rover is wrapping up its second year of service on the moon...

Here on Earth, geologists seek out deep channels into Earth’s rock, carved over the ages by flowing water. The exposed rock walls are like a visual timeline of a region’s geological history. On Mars, the surface wate...

A photo captured by amateur astronomer Alexander Krivenyshev shows two big sunspots on Earth's star.

Consumption and disintegration.

The swirls, eddies, and wavy bands of Jupiter and Saturn may remind us of a soothing, starry, starry night--but they reveal these two gas giants to be stormy, turbulent places. The turbulence produces energy cascades, a ...

The Martian underground may have been habitable billions of years ago even if the planet's surface was a dry, frigid wasteland.

One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. The car's owner reported that the 30-pound remnant of the ea...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has finalized an 86 million euro ($104 million) contract with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to complete the world's first space debris removal mission. SpaceNews

The Senate Commerce Committee voted Dec. 2 to advance the nomination of Greg Autry to be NASA's chief financial officer, a position that he may only fill for several weeks. SpaceNews

Neutrinos are a form of dark matter, and they play a role in the evolution of the universe. The post Neutrinos Have Played a Huge Role in the Evolution of the Universe appeared first on Universe Today.

A spectacular video from China's Chang'e 5 lander reveals its successful touchdown on the moon as it softly set down to collect the first lunar samples in 44 years.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

When depicting the women whose work helped to advance supersonic flight research and landing the first humans on the moon, do you show them as the "hidden figures" or bring them into the light?

In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she'd found while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She had started noticing very weird shapes she couldn't fit easily...

On 8 November, 33 intrepid sailors set off from Les Sables-D'Olonne in western France to take part in the most extreme, solo, non-stop, race around the world: the Vendée Globe. The route of around 45 000 km takes them d...

Cargo operations are underway at the International Space Station as a U.S. resupply ship prepares for launch and another prepares for departure....