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NASA needs to ensure that commercial space stations are ready before the International Space Station is retired to avoid a "space station gap" with geopolitical consequences, industry officials and other advisers warn. S...

A new video shows the Inspiration4 crew unveiling the incredible view of Earth from space, as seen through a domed window in their Crew Dragon spacecraft.

What doesn't stick comes around: Using machine learning and simulations of giant impacts, researchers at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory found that the planets residing in the inner solar systems were likely born from...

For decades, scientists have assumed that losses in Arctic sea ice cover allow for the formation of more clouds near the ocean's surface....

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is confident the agency's human spaceflight future is bright, despite the inherent difficulty of the endeavor and some challenging international issues.

Ride along with veteran astronaut Chris Cassidy in this six-part, all-access trip into orbit

NASA's InSight lander has detected one of the most powerful and longest-lasting quakes on the Red Planet since the start of its mission. The big marsquake happened on Sept. 18 on Earth, which happened to coincide with In...

The gigantic impact that created the moon was actually a one-two punch, a new study suggests.

NASA's Perseverance rover has compiled a variety of photos since landing at its new home on Mars in February, offering a more comprehensive view of the Red Planet.

SpaceWorks, an Atlanta-based commercial space company, is working on reentry capsules that will allow for orbital delivery services. The post The Future Could Bring Pinpoint Deliveries From Orbit appeared first on Univer...

Mars and water. Those words can trigger an avalanche of speculation, evidence, hypotheses, and theories. Mars has some water now, but it’s frozen, and most of it’s buried. There’s only a tiny bit of water vapour in...

The secretary-general of the United Nations lumped space tourism alongside corruption and loss of freedoms as part of a "malady of mistrust" facing the world, another sign of the backlash in some quarters to private huma...

VR allows you to reach places and achieve things that most can only dream about, including floating around the International Space Station

The water flowing from a medieval fountain in the Italian village of Fontecchio bubbles with extraterrestrial effervescence.

Some prolific serial killers almost certainly die before they can be caught. Now a new statistical analysis reveals just how many evade justice in this way.

Orbit Fab, a startup offering a refueling service in space, will launch a propellant tanker to geostationary orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 lunar lander mission projected for late 2022 or early 2023. SpaceNews

This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6). A densely packed, rough...

On 16 December 2020 the Chang'e-5 mission, China's first sample return mission to the Moon, successfully delivered to Earth nearly two kilograms of rocky fragments and dust from our celestial companion. Chang'e-5 landed ...

An international team of researchers has used seasonal variations to identify likely sub-surface deposits of water ice in the temperate regions of Mars where it would be easiest for future human explorers to survive. The...

Capturing the moment a meteor streaks across the sky is extremely rewarding. We explore the where, when and how in this guide to photographing meteors

New science from a stunning 2020 Hubble image illuminates the back story behind a shining loop of light.

The Universe is filled with energetic particles, such as X rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos. However, most of the high-energy cosmic particles' origins remain unexplained.