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Planet Earth is now trapping twice as much heat as it did 14 years ago, according to findings of a new study, which raise concerns about the possible acceleration of climate change.

China's first-ever Mars rover was on the move earlier this month, imagery by a NASA spacecraft shows.

Researchers have detected an earthquake using instruments flying in a balloon above California, and the technology could one day detect quakes on Venus.

An enormous, ghostly hand stretches through the depths of space, its wispy fingers pressing against a glowing cloud. It sounds like something out of sci-fi, but it's quite real.

Iridium Communications announced June 24 it received a U.S. Army contract to develop a payload that could be used to broadcast data such as timing or location signals. SpaceNews

It's good to remember how little we know about the outer solar system. Humans only really began observing it within the past 100 years, and given the constraints on that observations there are still plenty of things we d...

United Airlines plans to add faster speeds to its passenger airliner fleet, with the help of Boom Supersonic.

As the space sector expands, companies are adopting new business models, including Space Data as a Service, Satellite as a Service, and Ground Station as a Service, which promise the benefits of space without many of the...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced four new additions to the agency's senior staff Thursday.

Wednesday was a light duty day for the five Expedition 65 astronauts, two of whom will go on their third spacewalk this month....

Researchers from St. Petersburg University have analyzed data from optical telescopes covering more than eight years and managed to explain the mechanism of polarization plane rotations in blazars.

"Debris" -- NBC's latest original sci-fi offering, which we had high hopes for -- has been canceled after just one season, Variety has reported.

Motions of a remarkable cosmic structure have been measured for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The blast wave and debris from an exploded star are seen moving away from the explosion site and col...

As an oncologist, Adam Dicker has seen how cancer treatments can pummel the body to knock out tumors, sometimes leading to deteriorating bones, more infections, and haywire sleep cycles. But others have observed similar ...

Leaf Space has added three more ground stations to its managed network service, helping the Italian company support its largest number of satellite customers on a single launch in an upcoming mission. SpaceNews

To protect astronauts from cancer-causing radiation in space, NASA should proceed with proposals to set a universal career-long radiation dose limit of ~600 millisieverts (mSv), says a new report from the National Academ...

Orbion Space Technology announced June 24 it has raised $20 million in Series B funding. SpaceNews

A snap of ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during the second spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station's power system, taken by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough.

There will be all sorts of risks for any future colonists on Mars, such as extreme weather and temperatures, radiation, and the human physiological problems associated with living in with decreased gravity. But another i...

Space Perspective, the company planning to offer stratospheric balloon flights for tourists, has formally opened ticket sales days after its first test flight. SpaceNews

New over the top emotions, hairdos, and tutorials will make the sequel more entertaining and easier to understand.

Led by postdoctoral fellow researcher Maria Charisi, a team of international researchers known as the NANOGrav collaboration has created a catalog of 45,000 galaxies to detect gravitational waves created by pairs of blac...