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China broadcast a live classroom from its new space station on Dec. 9, in an effort to both inspire students and present a friendly image of the country's space ambitions.

The icy process may be present on other worlds.

It's complicated. But researchers are gaining some clarity in the vast web of early-human species that preceded modern humans.

A multiverse may be a natural prediction of the physical theories that define the beginning of the universe.

The UN says temperatures were "more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic."

PredaSAR won a $2 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to demonstrate interoperability between its satellites and the Blackjack military constellation. SpaceNews

Intelsat is poised to exit Chapter 11 in early 2022, after its bankruptcy court approved a restructuring plan that cuts the satellite operator's debt from about $16 billion to $7 billion. SpaceNews

Sounds from a Ganymede flyby, magnetic fields, and remarkable comparisons between Jupiter and Earth's oceans and atmospheres were discussed during a briefing today on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter at the American Geophy...

Ingenuity has now spent nearly 33 minutes aloft in the Martian air and visited 10 different Red Planet airfields.

Ahead of the upcoming Ariane 5 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kourou - home to Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, an overseas department of France....

The seven-member Expedition 66 crew spent Thursday servicing physics research gear and exercise hardware aboard the International Space Station....

NASA has awarded the Marshall Engineering Technicians and Trades Support (METTS) III contract to RSi-QuantiTech JV LLC of Huntsville, Alabama, to provide a wide range of engineering technicians and trade skills, as well ...

Skywatchers will have a chance to see Comet Leonard -- the brightest comet of 2021 -- near Venus in the evening sky tonight (Dec. 17).

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll finally get away with today’s topic: escape velocity! If you really want to get away for a vacation, you’re gonna have to wor...

What causes an otherwise unremarkable star to become over 100 times brighter? That’s a question astronomers have been pondering since 1936, when a star in Orion brightened from 16th magnitude to 8th magnitude in a sing...

Laura Shepard Churchley is not sure if she is an astronaut. The daughter of America's first astronaut to fly into space, Churchley followed in her father's trajectory by lifting off with Blue Origin.

SpaceX will launch its second stack of Starlink satellites from the West Coast early Saturday morning (Dec. 18), and you can watch the action live online.

The geocentric model is a debunked theory that the Earth is the center of the universe, with the sun and planets revolving around it.

NASA is shooting for next Friday to launch its newest space telescope.

A federal agency expects to announce its decision Monday on whether to allow a launchpad that would send commercial rockets into space from coastal Georgia.

Green and digital transition in Europe will benefit from ESA expertise that supports national plans for investing recovery and resilience funds in space projects. At the 303rd ESA Council meeting in Paris on 15 December ...

A NASA-supported study by an international multi-disciplinary team has shown what Mars would be like if it orbited a red dwarf star. The post Would Mars be More Habitable if it Orbited a Red Dwarf? appeared first on Univ...