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In the first 20 years of reaching the atmosphere, methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide. Reducing emissions of this extremely potent gas is, therefore, one of the fastest ways of slowing the ...

It's been a busy few days for our sun, which has produced three of the outbursts that scientists call coronal mass ejections since Monday (Nov. 1).

According to a new op-ed by Harvard Prof. Avi Loeb, our Universe may have been created by an advanced civilization, something we might be able to do someday too. The post Could our Universe be Someone’s Chemistry Proje...

Now that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has safely arrived at its launch site in French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America, technical teams have begun making progress on the final checklist of preparat...

An astronomer from NSF's NOIRLab has teamed up with a geologist from California State University, Fresno, to make the first estimates of rock types that exist on planets orbiting nearby stars....

N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages. One of its most distinctive features, however, is the dark, starry gap called ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, offline for more than a week because of an issue with its instruments, is likely to remain out of service for another week as engineers investigate the problem. SpaceNews

This Mechanical Engineering Robotic Arms set is a great STEM set and is 17% off on Amazon.

The Federal Communications Commission has approved Boeing's application to develop and operate 147 non-geostationary (NGSO) broadband satellites. SpaceNews

With space now considered a domain of war, hotlines between U.S. and foreign rivals might be worth contemplating, said Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, deputy chief of operations of the U.S. Space Force SpaceNews

Scientists aren't exactly sure how it formed.

Not that long ago,, astronomers weren’t sure that exoplanets even existed. Now we know that there are thousands of them and that most stars probably harbour exoplanets. There could be hundreds of billions of exoplanets...

The Earth and everything on it face an extinction-level event from some kind of alien that's been living on the moon.

Venture investor SpaceFund announced Nov. 3 it plans to finance the development of an autonomous navigation capability for space missions beyond Earth orbit in the region known as cislunar space. SpaceNews

We tend to think of time as an arrow, always moving in one direction at a uniform rate. But physics is challenging our understanding of time's true nature.

The National Reconnaissance Office on Nov. 3 released a request for bids from U.S. commercial providers of satellite imagery. SpaceNews

While NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has faced countless obstacles and delays in its more than decade in the making, the observatory's most difficult days lie ahead in the coming months.

Walmart have knocked 20% off this Lego Star Wars advent calendar so you can get it in time for December.

We look at the best camera backpacks on the market right now and pick our favorites from brands like LowePro, Vanguard and Peak Design.

Video: 00:04:35 A collection of the best timelapse videos made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet's second mission to the International Space Station, "Alpha" in 2021. The camera is setup to take pictures at intervals o...

The human-dog relationship precedes the agricultural revolution. Here's what we know about how it began -- with wolves -- and the evolving complexity of our loving connection to canines.

What makes a planet a planet? The answer turns out to be rather contentious. The official definition of a planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is that a planet must satisfy three conditions: