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Four astronauts were all smiles as they arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 26) ahead of SpaceX's third operational astronaut launch for NASA.

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On the floor of this crater where there are no dunes, the ice forms an uninterrupted layer....

Turns out we were hearing ourselves! Earth can be a noisy place when listening to stars. Late last year, a story was leaked indicating that the Murriyang radio telescope in Australia had detected a “signal-of-interest�...

NASA launches satellites, rovers, and orbiters to investigate humanity's place in the Milky Way. When these missions reach their destinations, their science instruments capture images, videos, and valuable insights about...

A new study shows how the chemicals in an exoplanet's atmosphere can, in some cases, reveal whether or not the temperature on its surface is too hot for liquid water.

Satellite broadband startup OneWeb and a company backed by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund have signed a $200 million joint venture, with exclusive rights to distribute the network's capacity in targeted Middle East...

Boeing announced Oct. 27 it is taking an additional $185 million charge against its earnings to cover the costs to get its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle flying again. SpaceNews

NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 mission is set to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon on Sunday, Oct. 31. The mission includes three NASA astronauts--mission Commander Raja Chari, P...

On Tuesday (Oct. 26), Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. officially announced plans to release "Dune: Part Two" on Oct. 20, 2023 .

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has emerged from its first "solar conjunction" blackout and gotten back to work on the Red Planet.

Titanic collisions are the norm in young solar systems. Earth’s Moon was the result of one of those collisions when the protoplanet Theia collided with Earth some 4.5 billion years ago. The collision, or series of coll...

PBS's newest science series, NOVA Universe Revealed, premieres tonight, October 27, at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT Oct. 28).

NASA is less than one month away from launching humanity's first-ever asteroid-deflecting mission, known as DART, short for "Double Asteroid Redirection Test."

A new accelerator program funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the U.S. Space Force announced Oct. 27 it has selected six U.S. and international startups for its first cohort. SpaceNews

We've written often about how pareidolia — the human tendency to see faces or other features in random images — works its magic across the cosmos. There's the famous face on Mars, Bigfoot on Mars, and even Han Solo o...

China's set a new national record for rocket launches today (Oct. 27) with a satellite launch from the Gobi Desert.

The next riders of SpaceX's Dragon are excited to strap into the capsule and blast into space.

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NASA is teaming up with SpaceX once more to send four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday, including three first-timers.

An international team of astrophysicists from South Africa, the UK, France and the US have found large variations in the brightness of light seen from around one of the closest black holes in our Galaxy, 9,600 light-year...

Three tons of supplies, food and equipment will fly to the International Space Station tonight.