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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Doctor Who's" The Master with "Missy," a malevolent new miniseries from Titan Comics.

Uranus and Neptune both have a completely skewed magnetic field, perhaps due to the planets' special inner structures. But new experiments by ETH Zurich researchers now show that the mystery remains unsolved.

The Biden administration's decision to continue the National Space Council has won approval, and relief, from the space industry, who see it as the latest sign that the White House is not contemplating major changes to s...

Mixed reality technologies, like virtual reality headsets or augmented reality apps, aren't just for entertainment--they can also help make discoveries on other worlds like the Moon and Mars. By traveling on Earth to ext...

The first known interstellar comet to visit our solar system may be the most pristine ever found, never passing near a star until visiting our own, researchers say.

The private venture that purchased a SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to low Earth orbit has finalized the crew for that mission, scheduled to launch as soon as September. SpaceNews

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have paired up for a challenge to build food systems for Mars missions.

NASA has selected L3Harris Technologies Inc. of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Raytheon Company of El Segundo, California, for the Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GEO-XO) Imager (GXI) Phase A Study contracts.

The more scientists study it, the weirder Uranus gets.

Intelsat reported a 7% drop in revenue for 2020 after declines in multiple business units, underlining the importance of C-band clearing proceeds for the satellite operator's recovery efforts. SpaceNews

The UAE's Hope probe reached Mars orbit in February, making the country the fifth nation to reach the Red Planet. The success of the Emirates Mars Mission stands alone as an admirable accomplishment, but Hope is not an e...

Mass extinctions are times in Earth's past when large proportions of life suddenly and catastrophically died.

A severe thunderstorm cloud that formed over the Pacific Ocean in 2018 reached the coldest temperatures ever recorded.

In terms of space exploration, Mars is all the rage these days. This has left our closest neighbor, Venus--previously the most attractive planet to study because of its proximity and similar atmosphere to Earth--in the l...

Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result may help scientists learn more about this enigmatic ice giant planet in our solar system.

In her new book, "Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight," author and spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel delivers a dual biography that peels back decades of history to reveal...

Looking at the scientific information gleaned from lifeless worlds could help in the search for life, one astrobiologist says.

The NewSpace industry has its sights set on space tourism, a growing market expected to be worth at least $3 billion by 2030.

Until now, researchers have believed that dark energy accounted for nearly 70 percent of the ever-accelerating, expanding universe.

Data from NASA's Landsat satellite shows what a volcano eruption looks like from above the clouds.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity is preparing for a historic take-off as NASA attempts the first powered, guided flight on another world.