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An international group of astrophysicists has discovered a new method to estimate the cosmic microwave background temperature of the young Universe only 880 million years after the Big Bang. It is the first time that the...

Even though Earth's magnetic field shields us from solar wind and space weather--it doesn't always offer complete protection....

NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EST today, Wednesday, Feb. 2, to discuss progress toward the launch of the agency's uncrewed Artemis I mission.

The first mission in NASA's program to take humans back to the Moon has been delayed until spring at the earliest, the US space agency said Wednesday, saying it needed more time to complete safety checks.

Astronomers from Georgia State University have found an explanation for the strange occurrence of massive stars located far from their birthplace in the disk of our Milky Way Galaxy.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a National Reconnaissance Office mission into orbit Feb. 2 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The post SpaceX launches classified satellite for U.S. National Reconnaissance Office ap...

SpaceX sent a U.S. spy satellite to orbit today (Feb. 2) in the second of three planned launches over a four-day stretch.

If the Ingenuity helicopter would fly at night on Mars, its very possible the whirring rotors would create enough static electricity in the extremely dry Martian atmosphere to cause the air around the craft to glow. "The...

Does everyone have a lookalike? Science and statistics say ... maybe?

NEA Scout will hitch a ride to an asteroid on the Artemis 1 Moon mission. The post Tiny NEA Scout Solar Sail Mission to Chase Asteroid appeared first on Universe Today.

The 593-piece Lego Star Wars set is at an all-time low price and features in our best Lego Star Wars deals guide.

Curtin University researchers studying a Martian meteorite have found the first evidence of high-intensity damage caused by asteroid impact, in findings that have implications for understanding when conditions suitable f...

Stars form inside vast collections of molecular hydrogen called molecular clouds, sometimes called stellar nurseries or star forming regions. Instabilities in the clouds cause gas to collapse in on itself, and when enoug...

The recent launches of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) and the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) by NASA and its international partners are excellent reminders that the universe emits light or energy in man...

SpaceX launched the CSG-2 satellite on Monday (Jan. 31) after four consecutive delays. The gorgeous sunset liftoff was very much worth the wait, as these photos show.

Fisher Space Pen is ready for NASA's Artemis missions to the moon, 50 years after its writing instruments were used by astronauts on the lunar surface.

Self-taught fossil specialist Terry Manning uncovered his first dinosaur embryo from an ancient egg in 1993. More than 30 embryos and nearly three decades later, hardly anyone has laid eyes or hands on his rare specimens...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft, astronomers have observed a galactic source designated IGR J18007-4146. The observational campaign has found that this source is an intermediate polar. The finding is ...

Colonialism's legacy still casts a shadow over the way paleontologists conduct their research and learn about the world. Some researchers are trying to expose and reform that pattern.

The field of paleontology has often brushed up against racism, colonization and other socio-economic concerns. Some researchers are trying to expose and reform that pattern.

See the latest news about NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission here.

NASA and SpaceX are investigating the delayed opening of a parachute on a cargo Dragon spacecraft that recently returned to Earth, an incident similar to one that took place on a Crew Dragon spacecraft last year. The pos...