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A red lake implies flamingos... or aluminium smelting. Here in Queensland, Australia, it is the latter. The red mud is a waste product of producing aluminium....

New research led by NASA provides a closer look at a nearby star thought to resemble our young Sun....

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity is getting set for its 11th off-Earth flight, which could happen early Thursday morning (Aug. 5).

Perseid meteors are already beginning to fall in a display that promises to dazzle skywatchers this month.

"The Ascent," a new sci-fi action-shooter role-playing game (RPG) from game developer Neon Giant and publishers Curve digital, is now available.

The National Reconnaissance Office has exercised a contract option to continue to procure satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies through August 2022. SpaceNews

New information has emerged about the Russian movie "The Challenge" planned to be filmed partly on the International Space Station in October. SpaceNews

NASA: Kepler News and Features:

Ask any space explorer, and they'll have a favorite photo or two from their mission. For Kevin Hand, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and co-lead of the Perseverance rover's first sc...

NASA and Northrop Grumman are targeting 5:56 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 10, for the company's 16th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.

European satellite giants SES and Eutelsat see improving trajectories in their broadcast businesses, although the wider picture remains mixed as the pandemic hangs over financials. SpaceNews

France's highest court has rejected a legal challenge from Eutelsat against Inmarsat's hybrid satellite and cellular European Aviation Network. SpaceNews

Real estate mogul Donald Bren's donation could help seed an energy revolution.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Far-flung spacecraft are helping us learn about the solar system's edge.

New research published in Nature has revealed the solution to Jupiter's 'energy crisis', which has puzzled astronomers for decades.

Boeing scrubbed today's launch of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft after discovering "unexpected valve position indications in the propulsion system."...

Tracking exoplanets is hard – especially when that exoplanet is so far away from its parent star that the normally used "transit" method of watching it dim the light of the star itself is ineffectual. But it really hel...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The acclaimed creature performer reveals Captain Saru's inner workings on the Paramount Plus sci-fi series.

How do you track an asteroid that hit the Earth over 60 million years ago? By using a combination of geology and computer simulations, at least according to a team of scientists from the Southwest Research Institute (SwR...

The following are statements from Margaret Vo Schaus, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy on Wednesday's swearing in of Vo Schaus as NASA's Chief Financial Officer: