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At a fundamental level, Mars is a volcanic planet. Its surface is home to the solar system's largest extinct volcano, Olympus Mons, and another trio of well-known volcanoes at Tharsis Montes. And those are just the highl...

Russia's new Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket launched on tis second test flight from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on Dec. 14, 2020.

ESA is taking the first steps towards the in-flight demonstration of a prototype reusable rocket first stage called Themis from 2023.

China has successfully launched a pair of satellites into space to learn more about gravitational waves, or echoes in space-time from huge mergers or cosmic events.

A monster lurks at the heart of many galaxies - even our own Milky Way. This monster possesses the mass of millions or billions of Suns. Immense gravity shrouds it within a dark cocoon of space and time - a supermassive ...

Distances in the solar system are vast, and it typically takes millions of years for small bodies to migrate from one orbit to another. But researchers recently discovered a “super highway”, where interactions among ...

The latest addition to the NewSpace industry is the Aevum RAVN-X, an automonous aircraft that can air-launch satellites to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) The post The RAVN-X is a new Autonomous Aircraft Designed to Launch Small S...

Scientists hope the dark grains from asteroid Ryugu will improve their understanding of the Solar System’s formation --

The Mandalorian is forced to reveal his face in a mission to locate his little green friend.

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Skywatchers in southern South America were treated to a total solar eclipse on Monday (Dec. 14), and a weather satellite captured stunning views of the event from space.

Ghostly circles of radio emission, hanging out in space like cosmic smoke-rings, can't be explained by current theories. And astronomers are excited to figure them out.

A hypothetical particle known as the ultralight boson could be responsible for our universe's dark matter.

The supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are the most massive objects in the universe. They range from about 1 million to upwards of 10 billion times the mass of the Sun. Some of these black holes also bla...

A device developed by scientists at the CY Cergy Paris University and Paris Observatory promises insight into how the building blocks of life form in outer space.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has selected W. Russ DeLoach to be the agency's next chief of safety and mission assurance (SMA).

SpaceX's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase 1 award is big, but the impact on its overall Starlink broadband business will be modest. SpaceNews

NASA has released the first iteration of its Spacecraft Conjunction Assessment and Collision Avoidance Best Practices Handbook to share information on best practices for coordinating in-orbit activity in a safe and respo...

A team of astronomers used the Keck I telescope to measure the distance to an ancient galaxy. They deduced the target galaxy GN-z11 is not only the oldest galaxy but also the most distant. It's so distant it defines the ...

Thinking like Earthlings may have caused scientists to overlook the electrochemical effects of Martian dust storms.

An international team of astronomers have conducted a detailed study of a large ionized bubble an ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in the galaxy NGC 5585. Results of the research, presented in a paper published December ...

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