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A new study conducted with support from NASA considers sending "Water Bears" on the first interstellar voyages instead of humans. The post Will Water Bears be the First Interstellar Astronauts? appeared first on Universe...

Director Brian Volk-Weiss discusses his 10-part dive into Trek for the History Channel's "The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek."

Landsat 9, a joint mission between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that launched Sept. 27, 2021, has collected its first light images of Earth.

The U.S. government's restrictive security clearance process is hindering its ability to access cutting-edge space technology and protect sensitive information from foreign espionage. SpaceNews

A search for sterile neutrinos finds they are not the solution to dark matter. The post Experiment Finds no Sign of Sterile Neutrinos appeared first on Universe Today.

The Canon RF 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM is an incredibly compact telephoto zoom which delivers stunning handheld results for Canon's mirrorless system.

In space, it's almost always raining dust. Most of that dust is so small a microscope would have a hard time seeing it. Created by asteroid impacts, millions of these fine dust particles collide with Earth's upper atmosp...

NASA has selected a new Earth science mission that will study the behavior of tropical storms and thunderstorms, including their impacts on weather and climate models.

NASA announced Monday (Nov. 1) that it is adding several new leadership positions and merging two offices into a new one.

The Shetland Islands, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, are featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image....

Four International Space Station astronauts continue packing their U.S. spacecraft as they plan for a return to Earth this month....

Hubble is getting a bit long in the tooth. Initially launched in 1990, it has been one of the most spectacularly successful orbital satellites in history. But it has also had its fair share of errors, starting almost imm...

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have very low luminosities, comparatively few stars, and little star-formation activity as compared with normal galaxies of similar sizes. Commonly found in galaxy clusters, UDGs come in a w...

A new NASA video highlights the giant ozone hole that opened over the Antarctic this year.

A NASA sounding rocket will observe a nearby star to learn how starlight affects the atmospheres of exoplanets--key information in the hunt for life outside our solar system.

Week in images: 01 - 05 November 2021 Discover our week through the lens

Virgin Orbit has entered an agreement with the owner of Japan's All Nippon Airways for the procurement of 20 flights of Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket from an airport in Japan. SpaceNews

The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2020) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has published its report and the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) received high priority for new ground-based obs...

The annual Taurid meteor shower made of bits of the comet Encke is peaking Friday, Nov. 5.

Video: 00:01:19 After its arrival at Pariacabo harbour in French Guiana on 12 October 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope was transported to Europe's Spaceport and unboxed in the cleanroom. It is now being prepared for ...

The 2020 Decadal Survey for Astronomy and Astrophysics has recommended a new series of three Great Observatories--or space-based telescopes--as a top national priority for the future of space astrophysics.

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland today, Nov. 5, to get a firsthand look at the agency's work to combat the climate crisis and protect vulnerable communitie...