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The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft is speeding towards its historic first close pass of the Sun. On 14 March, the spacecraft will pass the orbit of Mercury, the scorched inner planet of our Solar System, and on 26 Mar...

Astronomers discovered the first exoplanets in 1992. They found a pair of them orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12 about 2,300 light-years from the Sun. Two years later they discovered the third planet in the system.

China launched a set of commercial satellites Saturday for testing broadband services, on-orbit networking and integrating communications and remote sensing technologies. The post China launches test satellites for broad...

A fresh analysis of the possible cooling effect of the sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in January 2022 has concluded that the impact will be much smaller than initiall...

NASA has awarded a nearly $3.5 billion contract to SpaceX to provide three additional Crew Dragon launches to the International Space Station.

A harsh sun shines down through a cloudless sky, across a vast and unforgiving landscape. It's covered in gray rock, giant ice sculptures and expansive fields of spiky, yellow and orange bushes. In the distance, intimida...

A tiny experiment launching to the International Space Station later this year could set the stage for a future global quantum network. Called the Space Entanglement and Annealing QUantum Experiment (or SEAQUE), the milk...

We know a ton about the inside of Earth. We know it has both an inner core and an outer core and that the churning and rotation create a protective magnetosphere that shields life from the Sun’s radiative power. It has...

Intelsat has picked former Raytheon executive David Wajsgras as CEO to lead the satellite operator post-bankruptcy. The post Intelsat picks David Wajsgras as next CEO appeared first on SpaceNews.

A powerful new picture of Jupiter posted by a citizen scientist shows the planet looming large with the shadow of its biggest moon Ganymede blanketing its clouds.

Astra thinks it knows what went wrong during last month's failed flight, which was the company's first-ever mission with operational payloads onboard.

Finding meteorites after they shoot across the night sky is notoriously difficult. Now astronomers have done it for the first time using drones and machine vision algorithms.

Move over Falcon, there's a whole group of awesome Marvel characters who deserve their own show, waiting in the wings.

You don't need to be a scientist -- or a citizen, for that matter -- to be a great citizen scientist! Here's what citizen science is, why it matters and how to get started.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. On 7 March 2002 astronauts installed the ACS during Hubble Servicing Mission 3B, also known as STS-109...

After 10 years in space, a NASA space telescope now has a way to use "nuisance light" to potentially increase its science productivity.

The data provided by Webb will be a boon to astronomers around the world. Here's what they hope to learn.

A black hole gets a large corona before it emits jets. This is revealed, among other things, by the heartbeat graph that an international team of astronomers has made of a black hole and a star orbiting around each other...

A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket soared high out of Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks at 2:27 a.m. Saturday to learn more about pulsating aurora.

It's a big galaxy out there full of many different and interesting people (and aliens). These are the Star Wars characters who deserve their own show and a chance to share their tale.

Radar is finicky. It is extraordinarily useful for a multitude of tasks, but testing it for some particular tasks is complicated since almost everything interferes with it. That challenge is particularly acute when testi...

A recent study has found that the hazards posed by large impactors far outweighed their benefits for life on Earth.