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A solar eclipse will be visible over the Earth's northern hemisphere on Thursday with parts of Canada and Siberia privy to the best view of the celestial event.

The U.S. Senate passed a bill that would allocate nearly $250 billion to American scientific and technical research -- including $10 billion for NASA to fund private crewed moon landers.

Find maps, diagrams and animations of the "ring of fire" solar eclipse on June 10, 2021.

A satellite captured the moon casting its shadow on Earth during the annular solar eclipse early Thursday (June 10) morning.

China is getting ready to send three taikonauts to its new space station core module, although we don't yet know when it will happen and who will go.

New research from the Australia National University shows that millions of lasers are the way to propel Breakthrough Starshot on its interstellar mission. The post Sending a Spacecraft to Another Star Will Require a Mill...

Scientists have successfully grown liver tissue capable of functioning for 30 days in the lab as part of NASA's Vascular Tissue Challenge.

This is our Great Question: How did life begin on Earth? Anyone who says they have the answer is telling tall tales. We just don’t know yet. While a definitive answer may be a long way off--or may never be found--there...

Venus is hotter than ever, with a third new robotic explorer on the horizon.

A U.S. Space Force mission scheduled to launch June 13 on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket is a monitoring satellite intended to provide "space domain awareness." SpaceNews

As NASA continues plans for multiple commercial deliveries to the Moon's surface per year, the agency has selected three new scientific investigation payload suites to advance understanding of Earth's nearest neighbor.

Using a new observatory, a team of Chinese astronomers have found over a dozen sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. And those sources aren’t from some distant, exotic corner of the cosmos. They come from our own b...

On June 10, 2021, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the selection of EnVision as its newest medium-class science mission. EnVision will make detailed observations of Venus to understand its history and especially...

The world's first wooden satellite is on the way, in the shape of the Finnish WISA Woodsat. ESA materials experts are contributing a suite of experimental sensors to the mission as well as helping with pre-flight testing...

People across the northern hemisphere looked up today - taking the correct precautions, of course - and were treated to a partial solar eclipse. The partial eclipse covered a region thousands of kilometres wide across mo...

The moons of planets that have no parent star can possess an atmosphere and retain liquid water. Astrophysicists at LMU have calculated that such systems could harbor sufficient water to make life possible--and sustain i...

On June 1, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover kicked off the science phase of its mission by leaving the "Octavia E. Butler" landing site. Until recently, the rover has been undergoing systems tests, or commissioning, and su...

Kidney cells, oral health and pharmaceuticals were the science highlights aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday....

Astronomers from the Andrés Bello National University, Chile, and elsewhere, have discovered a new nearby globular cluster (GC) with extreme kinematics. The newly found cluster, designated VVV-CL160, has an unusually la...

The "ring of fire" solar eclipse was observable from northern latitudes of Europe and America today, but clouds ruined the show for some.

Amazon Web Services announced June 10 it selected 10 U.S. and European space startups for a four-week accelerator program. SpaceNews

The UK Space Agency has picked health care veteran Paul Bate to be its next CEO starting Sept. 6. SpaceNews