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Physicists at the University of Sussex have discovered that black holes exert a pressure on their environment, in a scientific first.

Perseverance collected another drilled-out core of a Martian rock dubbed "Rochette," sealing the sample in its designated titanium tube on Wednesday (Sept. 8).

Two cosmonauts continued the outfitting of a new module outside the International Space Station on what was the 50th planned spacewalk to originate from the Russian segment of the orbiting outpost.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Danube Delta - the second largest river delta in Europe....

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has begun its out-of-this-world rock collection.

NASA has awarded Panamerica Computers of Luray, Virginia, an ordering vehicle to provide Box platform licenses, maintenance, and support services when the agency requires.

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) mission.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the region....

NASA's planned Gateway space station will house astronauts in lunar orbit.

The good news for the Earth observation industry is that their capabilities to collect and analyze imagery are better than ever. The bad news for the industry is that many prospective customers don't understand those cap...

Our galaxy isn't as thoroughly mixed as scientists sometimes assume, according to a new study.

We're on an express elevator to Hell, goin' down as we rank the best Alien movies.

China launched the Gaofen 5 (02) hyperspectral Earth observation satellite on Tuesday as the country races towards carrying out 40 missions in 2021.

We take a look at the best space horror movies to unnerve you in the voids of space.

The early solar system was an especially violent place. The terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) likely formed by suffering countless collisions between planetesimals. But the material left over from all...

Although some rocket-borne missions last years or decades, others, such as the cast of NASA's Sounding Rockets Program, do their science during a short hop that doesn't even reach orbit.

In recent years, meteorologists and climate scientists have been awed by the rapid intensification of several tropical cyclones around the world--a phenomenon that is believed to become more likely in a warming world....

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the region.

This image of the young volcanic region of Elysium Planitia on Mars [10.3°N, 159.5°E] was taken on 14 April 2021 by the CaSSIS camera on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).

Forget about online games that promise you a "whole world" to explore. An international team of researchers has generated an entire virtual universe, and made it freely available on the cloud to everyone.

Visualizations can inspire creative new ways of thinking about an object. But holding that visualization in your hand adds a whole other level of impact to it. That desire for impact has led Dr. Nia Imara, an astrophysic...

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