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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity didn't get off the ground as planned earlier this month.

According to new research, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will detect 5 `Oumuamua-like objects a year, creating many opportunities for a rendezvous mission! The post Vera Rubin Observatory Should Find 5 Interstellar Objec...

The crew of China's Tiangong space station returned to Earth, having set a new record for the longest Chinese crewed mission to space. The post China’s First Space Station Crew is Back From Orbit appeared first on Univ...

New data analysis has found that the sunlight filtering through Venus' clouds could support Earth-like photosynthesis in the cloud layers and that chemical conditions are potentially amenable to the growth of microorgani...

MIT's Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics graduate admissions program this past year saw a record number of applicants, most of whom want to work in the space business. SpaceNews

A NASA asteroid mission that has remained on schedule for a mid-October launch despite disruptions caused by the pandemic is now facing a new challenge: the threat of a federal government shutdown. SpaceNews

Is there anywhere in the Universe where we can escape from radiation? Certainly not here on Earth. And not in space itself, which is filled with diffuse radiation in the form of gamma rays and neutrinos. Scientists have ...

The larvae of many marine creatures drift in the plankton, then settle to the seafloor and transform into adults. Bacteria often help the critters pick where to settle -- and that may be just a snippet of a far more exte...

Earth has a new eye in orbit to monitor our changing planet.   Landsat 9 launched on September 27, 2021 continuing the Landsat family of satellite's nearly 50-year tradition of making critical observations to help with ...

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur shared three photos of the massive Hurricane Sam as seen from the International Space Station.

By studying isotopic variations of the elements vanadium (V) and strontium (Sr), an international team of researchers including scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory found that those variations are not c...

The search for water on Mars has consumed a lot of data collection and research time. Underground lakes have been found and then discounted again. Melted ice has been proposed and then dismissed again. All this attention...

China launched two missions on Monday within only a few hours of each other, and one has been declared lost.

The Red Planet's unearthly environment will play a key role in how future astronauts -- and martian settlers -- handle their dead.

A federal agency said Wednesday it's once again delaying a final decision on whether to permit construction of a launchpad for commercial rockets on the Georgia coast.

The spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy, commander of the Soyuz, and Pyotr Dubrov along with NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, docked at 9:04 a.m. EDT....

Space exploration requires all kinds of interesting solutions to complex problems. There is a branch of NASA designed to support the innovators trying to solve those problems – the Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk isn't impressed by his rival Jeff Bezos' legal approach to a moon shot.

A survey of white dwarfs shows they get more magnetic as they age, and we don't know why. The post Aging White Dwarfs Become Even More Magnetic appeared first on Universe Today.

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Catastrophic floods from overflowing lakes on early Mars may have carved out many of the Red Planet's valleys, a new study finds.

On Earth, river erosion is usually a slow-going process. But on Mars, massive floods from overflowing crater lakes had an outsized role in shaping the Martian surface, carving deep chasms and moving vast amounts of sedim...