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James Cameron's space adventure Avatar was largely about hyper-realistic aliens, but the spaceships and vehicles used by the human invaders were very impressive too.

The Kangerlussuaq Glacier, one of Greenland's largest tidewater outlet glaciers, is pictured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission....

Virgin Orbit placed seven cubesats for three customers into orbit Jan. 13 on the third consecutive successful operational flight of its LauncherOne air-launch system. SpaceNews

A telescope in Arizona modified to measure the true distance of galaxies has produced the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever.

A recent bill meant to facilitate NASA raising money by leasing out underused facilities went in a most unexpected direction: expanding the right to vote.

Shri. Somnath is best-known for developing the country's highly successful PSLV rocket.

Living long-term in microgravity affects every aspect of the human body and the eyes are no exception....

The Sun isn’t the only star in this galactic neighbourhood. Other stars also call this neighbourhood home. But what’s the neighbourhood’s history? What triggered the birth of all those stars? A team of astronomers ...

Astronomers have spotted three new exoplanets orbiting dangerously close to their parent stars, on the brink of extinction.

The most ancient evidence of life on our planet dates back roughly 3.5 billion years ago.

Remember the Hubble Space Telescope’s Deep Field and Ultra-Deep Field images? Those images showed everyone that what appears to be a tiny, empty part of the sky contains thousands of galaxies, some dating back to the U...

Students from Washington state will have an opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

In one week the first spacewalk of 2022 is set begin at the International Space Station....

We now know of almost 5,000 planets outside the Solar System. If you were to picture what it would be like on one of these distant worlds, or exoplanets, your mental image would probably include a parent star--or more th...

Condosat operator Loft Orbital has ordered more than 15 satellite buses from Airbus in a deal announced Jan. 14 that calls for building the initial OneWeb-derived platforms in France before shifting serial production to ...

Laika, a Moscow street dog, became the first creature to orbit Earth, but she died in space.

Aliena, a tech spin-off from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has today deployed into space a nanosatellite fitted with a fuel-efficient engine it has developed. The nanosatellite was sent fro...

A world-first study has revealed how space travel can cause lower red blood cell counts, known as space anemia. Analysis of 14 astronauts showed their bodies destroyed 54 percent more red blood cells in space than they n...

Redshift and blueshift describe the change in the frequency of a light wave depending on whether an object is moving towards or away from us.

How realistic is spaceflight in video games? From takeoff to interstellar travel, let's look at some popular games to see how they stack up.

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll be surrounded by today’s topic: coma! “Coma” comes from the Greek word for “hair”, and it’s also the origins of the w...

A SpaceX Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft is set to depart the International Space Station Friday, Jan. 21.