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According to data obtained by ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter, it looks like there's plenty of water ice at the bottom of Valles Marineris on Mars. The post The Bottom of Valles Marineris Seems to Have Water Mixed in With the Re...

Since early this year, skywatchers on Earth have been tracking the Comet Leonard, a kilometer wide dirty snowball made of ice, rock and dust. Now, as it heads towards a close encounter with the Sun on January 3, 2022, se...

NASA is tracking two explorers on a 2,268-mile (3,650 kilometers) journey across Antarctica to learn more about humanity's ability to survive on Mars.

'Eve of the Daleks' is the title for this year's special and it promises to be a Christmas cracker.

Comet Leonard shines brightly in images captured by a small Chinese satellite on the backdrop of aurora and passing meteors.

Astronomers have captured a detailed image of a massive eruption from the nearest feeding supermassive black hole that spans the size of 16 full moons in the sky.

Even as commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space prepares to launch the first fully private crew to the space station early next year, its engineers are also developing in-house spacesuits.

Canadian startup NorthStar Earth & Space plans to set up European headquarters in Luxembourg, after getting an investment from the country's government-backed venture capital fund. SpaceNews

With a deadline for an agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union on British involvement in, and funding for, Copernicus come and gone, the European Space Agency is pressing ahead on several missions in ...

The GRAVITY collaboration just released the clearest images ever of the stars that orbit the supermassive black hole in the heart of our galaxy! The post Best Image Ever Taken of Stars Buzzing Around the Milky Way’s Su...

Don't ask astronomers to choose between the Hubble Space Telescope and the new kid on the cosmic block, the James Webb Space Telescope.

On Thursday 23 December, theJames Webb Space Telescope, safely stowed inside the fairing of ESA'sAriane 5launch vehicle, left the final assembly building for roll-out to the launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in French Gui...

Scientists have known about climate change for a while, with an overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are the cause. But when were people first warned about the climate change?

After more than two decades of development, NASA's next-generation space telescope is on the launch pad.

Like kids dreaming of presents under the tree, the scientists at the Jupiter control room at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou are patiently waiting for December 25.

NASA's research focus on sustainable aviation will get some big help from teams of university faculty and students recently selected to participate in the agency's University Leadership Initiative (ULI).

Video: 00:03:29 Webb is the next great space science observatory following Hubble, designed to answer outstanding questions about the Universe and to make breakthrough discoveries in all fields of astronomy. Webb will se...

Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner solar system; only a few percent of the building blocks of these two planets originated beyond Jupiter's orbit. A group of researchers led by ...

Kepler Communications plans to use a Spire Global nanosatellite launching late next year to test a terminal it hopes to someday deploy by the thousands to create a mesh network of data-relay satellites. SpaceNews

The recently-discovered gas giant is the second hottest planet on record. It's also slowly spiraling into its own host star.

The forthcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope offers unprecedented new opportunities for astronomers. It's also a timely opportunity to reflect on what previous generations of telescopes have shown us.

Mercury is a most unusual planet. The smallest planet in the solar system, and the closest planet to the sun, it is in a 3:2 spin resonance, slowly turning and experiencing scorching heat up to 430 degrees Celsius, and t...