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The search for life outside of Earth has taken many forms. Mars, our neighbouring world, looks like it was once habitable. Perhaps too Venus, despite its current hellish conditions. But in recent years, scientists' gazes...

NASA is highlighting the Navajo language with its latest Mars mission.

A SpaceX rocket launch was mistaken as a fireball in the sky.

Stefanie Tompkins on March 15 assumed the top post at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. SpaceNews

Eaglemoss Hero Collector announces their upcoming lineup of detailed, die-cast miniature spaceships from the classic '70s sci-fi series "Space: 1999."

Here are some of the highlights from four centuries of scientific study of the moon.

After 20 years of continuous habitation, the International Space Station has entered its "Golden Age" and is abuzz with activity--thanks in large part to the return of US rocket launches via commercial partner SpaceX.

NASA has tapped Blue Origin to simulate moon gravity on suborbital rocket launches.

AFRL will work with Viasat to figure out ways to integrate commercial satcom with government-owned satellites so SpaceNews

From activities in low-Earth orbit to NASA's Artemis program, the commercial space industry has emerged as an innovator in areas of space access, commerce, and exploration.

An atmosphere is what makes life on Earth's surface possible, regulating our climate and sheltering us from damaging cosmic rays. But although telescopes have counted a growing number of rocky planets, scientists had tho...

In a series of exciting video stories featuring the Playmobil toy system, the ever-knowledgeable robot host ROBert is assisted by ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano to explain how you can become an astronaut and what it's like...

Relativity Space was selected to launch a small U.S. military payload to orbit in 2023 using a 3D-printed rocket. SpaceNews

Hulu has announced the premiere date for Season 2 of their riotous R-rated animation series "Solar Opposites."

At first glance this captivating scene peering through wispy clouds and down onto a dune field is reminiscent of a satellite view of one of Earth's deserts, but this is in fact a beautiful landscape on Mars.

Researchers from Skoltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have analyzed several dozen options to pick the best one in terms of performance and costs for the 'last mile' of a future mission to the Moon--actu...

NASA is targeting a two-hour test window that opens at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 18, for the second hot fire test of the core stage for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA's Stennis Space Center near B...

In early 2020, data from satellites were used to show a decline in air pollution coinciding with nationwide lockdowns put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19. One year later, as lockdown restrictions loosen in some c...

Three residents of the International Space Station will take a spin around their orbital neighborhood in the Soyuz MS-17 on Friday, March 19, relocating the spacecraft to prepare for the arrival of the next set of crew m...

Red giant stars are, well, red and giant. But astronomers have always had difficulty estimating their temperatures due to their complex and turbulent atmospheres. Without an accurate gauge of their temperatures, it's dif...

In October 19th, 2017, the first interstellar object ever detected flew past Earth on its way out of the solar system. Less than two years later, a second object was detected, an easily identified interstellar comet desi...

In a recent study, an international team of astronomers presents the discovery of PSO J172.3556+18.7734--a highly accreting radio-loud quasar at a redshift of approximately 6.82. This is the most distant radio-loud quasa...