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Japan plans to send a robotic rover to explore the surface of the Moon. Here's the kicker, it transforms! The post Lunar Rovers! Transform and Roll Out! appeared first on Universe Today.

A former NASA astronaut was sentenced to four years in prison followed by 10 years of probation in relation to a deadly car crash in 2016.

Stephen King's short story "The Jaunt" featuring teleportation will be adapted into a new TV series.

A new Chinese weather satellite launched into orbit Wednesday (June 2) with "complete success," according to one of the participating state contractors.

Private equity firm TPG has poured $100 million into weather services startup Climavision, which will marry satellite and terrestrial radar observations to improve climate intelligence. SpaceNews

On its sixth flight, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter suffered a bit of a glitch and was forced to land. But the helicopter has still been a killer mission! The post Ingenuity’s 6th Flight Didn’t Go So Smoothly appeared...

Researchers studying how bubbles form and function are sending a fully automated, self-contained experiment into space.

New research shows how a hypothetical form of dark energy might be made inside the sun and could be detected here on Earth. In fact, we may have already seen it.

A team of scientists has gotten their best look yet at a gamma-ray burst, the most dramatic type of explosion in the universe.

The space agency’s DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions could spark a sea change in planetary science when they launch later this decade --

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SpaceX launched thousands of tiny sea creatures to the International Space Station on Thursday, along with a plaque-fighting toothpaste experiment and powerful solar panels.

SpaceX launched its 17th rocket of the year today (June 3), sending a robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station before nailing a landing at sea.

Scientists have gained the best view yet of the brightest explosions in the universe: A specialized observatory in Namibia has recorded the most energetic radiation and longest gamma-ray afterglow of a so-called gamma-ra...

The latest SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after launching at 1:29 p.m. EDT Thursday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bearing more than 7,300 pounds of scien...

The surface of the sun churns with energy and frequently ejects masses of highly-magnetized plasma towards Earth. Sometimes these ejections are strong enough to crash through the magnetosphere--the natural magnetic shiel...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to do more than improve forecasts with its next generation of geostationary weather satellites. SpaceNews

SpaceX will launch a Dragon spacecraft packed with NASA cargo to the International Space Station today (June 3).

The team behind NASA's InSight Mars lander has come up with an innovative way to boost the spacecraft's energy at a time when its power levels have been falling. The lander's robotic arm trickled sand near one solar pane...

As orbits around Earth get more and more crowded, the recent damage to the International Space Station's Canadarm2 opens up debate around what we are doing about orbital debris and space traffic management. SpaceNews

Expedition 65 Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have completed a spacewalk lasting seven hours and 19 minutes....

Europe's Galileo satellite navigation constellation is set to grow. Later this year the first two out of 12 "Batch 3" Galileo satellites will be launched by Soyuz from French Guiana. Their last step on the way to launch ...