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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is a stunning achievement of engineering, design, and, well, ingenuity. The dual-rotor craft can be seen taking off and landing in this remarkable video, taken by the Mastcam-Z, an imager aboa...

One of the unspoken caveats of most exoplanet discovery missions is that they only operate for a few years. Such a short observing window means there are planets with longer orbital periods, usually further out from the ...

JAXA and the Tiger Corporation have come together to develop next-generation cooling containers that will allow for regular sample-returns from the ISS The post JAXA Using Water Bottle Technology for Sample-Return Missio...

SpaceX is gearing up to launch its 22nd cargo mission to the International Space Station this week, and tucked inside the Dragon cargo capsule will be some interesting organisms.

Artist Brian Rood creates a pair of limited-edition variant covers for Marvel's "Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters #1."

Europe has tasked an Airbus-led group to devise its own quantum communications network as startup Arqit raises $400 million for a space-based system. SpaceNews

A German startup has raised an initial funding round that will enable it to begin launching a constellation of satellites to detect wildfires. SpaceNews

In interstellar dust clouds, turbulence must first dissipate before a star can form through gravity. A German-French research team has now discovered that the kinetic energy of the turbulence comes to rest in a space tha...

D-Orbit plans to transport satellites into six distinct orbits and to host three satellites on the third mission of the Italian firm's In-Orbit Now (ION) Satellite Carrier. SpaceNews

We look up today and see the stars divided into the same familiar shapes as our ancestors, but how did the constellations come to be?

Best-selling space science writer Jeffrey Kluger will launch a virtual tour Tuesday (June 1) to promote his first fiction book, "Holdout."

We look up today and see the stars divided into the same familiar shapes as our ancestors, but how did the constellations come to be?

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Using the 4-meter Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory (CTIO), astronomers have mapped the outermost regions of a galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6809. Results of the study, published May...

Download this launch kit to learn more about the international James Webb Space Telescope and the science goals of the mission.

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The International Space Station (ISS) is not only the largest and most sophisticated orbiting research facility ever built, it is arguably the most important research facility we have. With its cutting-edge facilities an...

With the findings detailed in two Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society papers, a group of astronomers, led by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) and Macquarie University, reported the firs...

The supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy may not be a black hole at all, but rather a fluffy ball of dark matter called darkinos.

An instrument destined for Jupiter orbit is checked after completing eight days of cryogenic radio-frequency testing at ESA's ESTEC technical center in the Netherlands.

Are China's recent activities in space cause for U.S. concern?

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous throughout the Milky Way galaxy and play a crucial role in all dynamics of interstellar medium. However, questions like how solar-type stars form out of magnetized molecular clouds, whether...