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Image: If the orientation of this image is a little disorienting, then you know how astronauts feel in their first few hours in space. in weightlessness, the human body loses its cues for up and down and requires adjustm...

UC Riverside is leading one of the NASA Astrobiology Program's eight new research teams tackling questions about the evolution and origins of life on Earth and the possibility of life beyond our solar system.

Electro Optic Systems (EOS) of Australia formed SpaceLink, a wholly owned subsidiary, based in McLean, Virginia, to provide data-relay services for satellites in low Earth orbit and named former OneWeb Vice President Dav...

Historic sites across the world must be protected from damage and deterioration so future generations can appreciate them. How can space help? To find out, join our next online seminar on Thursday 10 December.

Researchers are continuing to explore the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on Earth's environment and to consider any implications for public policy. SpaceNews

A massive iceberg named A-68A is on a long journey through the seas near Antarctica. Though largely empty, those waters do host some islands, most notably South Georgia Island. In recent weeks satellite images showed the...

NASA released its science definition report for Artemis 3 to prioritize its work for the first crewed lunar surface mission, set for 2024

For more than a billion years, Earth covered itself in new continents. New research shows that those continents were quickly swallowed up again but their deaths fertilized life on the surface.

The man who first broke the speed of sound died Monday (Dec. 7) at age 97.

A report released by NASA Dec. 7 outlined the science that the first crewed Artemis mission to the lunar surface could accomplish, but also some of the conflicts between science goals and the mission's technical capabili...

French rugby team Stade Toulousain unveiled its shirt for the European Rugby Champions Cup 2020-21 this week, with a tribute to Proxima, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet's first mission to the International Space Station.

Odd detections at the South Pole have so far defied explanation, inviting theories beyond conventional physics.

Students from Arkansas will have an opportunity this week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of a neutrino-emitting blazar known as TXS 0506+056. Results of this observational campaign, presented in a paper published November 28 on the arXiv pre-print server,...

A space shuttle solid rocket booster has been delivered to a Southern California museum to become the centerpiece of a new memorial to NASA's fallen astronauts.

Japanese scientists are thrilled to finally have asteroid samples arrive Monday (Dec. 7) after a long flight from Australia -- and a much longer journey through the solar system.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of China's Chang'e 5 lander on the moon just hours after its historic landing.

Spire Global has raised 20 million euros ($24 million) from the European Investment Bank (EIB), part of a growing effort by European agencies to support space startups. SpaceNews

The Chang'e-5 ascent vehicle which carried precious samples into lunar orbit was commanded to crash into the moon Monday after completing its mission. SpaceNews

The US space agency NASA published a voluminous report on Monday outlining the scientific priorities for the Artemis III astronauts it intends to send to the Moon in 2024.

Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles "Chuck" Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the "right stuff" when in 1947 he became the first person to fly faster than sound, ...

Japanese space agency officials were delighted Tuesday by the return of a small capsule containing asteroid soil samples obtained by their Hayabusa2 spacecraft and they are anxiously waiting to look inside after preparat...