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It looks like the Perseverance rover has an unwanted passenger, a rock stuck inside one of its wheels. The image of the stone was selected by public input as the "Image of the Week" for Week 54 (Feb. 20-26, 2022) of the ...

SpaceX will launch four dozen Starlink internet satellites and land the returning rocket on Wednesday (March 9), and you can watch the action live.

Earth formed from the Sun’s protoplanetary disk about 4.6 billion years ago. In the beginning, it was a molten spheroid with scorching temperatures. Over time, it cooled, and a solid crust formed. Eventually, the atmos...

Has Q's taste in men's fashion improved? Will he have cheap, red wine-stained lips again? All these questions - and more, are answered in this enthralling first episode

Hidden under Greenland's thick ice sheet, scientists found what they thought was the scar of an asteroid impact perhaps just thousands of years old, fresh enough that humans were already on the scene.

More than 70 original NASA photographs including a celebrated image of Buzz Aldrin's moon walk taken by Neil Armstrong were sold at auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday for more than 155,000 euros ($172,000).

Officials at SpaceX worked for six weeks to bring Starlink satellite internet service to Ukraine ahead of a government request from that country.

A view of the deployed Light-1 CubeSat. The Light-1 CubeSat focuses on the detection of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) coming from the Earth's atmosphere....

The snow and ice-covered state of Minnesota on its southeast border with Wisconsin is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above....

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope....

Space exercise and space physics were the main research topics aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday....

The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, is returning a number of unique observations of Martian dust storms, providing unparalleled depth of information and insight i...

The inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters have been unraveled by a collaboration of international researchers led by the University of Oxford, University of Rochester and the University of Chicago.

A new study paints a dire picture about Earth's orbital debris environment and highlights the need for mitigation strategies The post What Would a Sustainable Space Environment Look Like? appeared first on Universe Today...

NASA will get just over $24 billion this year, if Congress is able to pass a newly devised omnibus spending bill.

New trade sanctions aimed at Russia's space sector were announced March 9 by UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. The post UK bans space-related exports to Russia appeared first on SpaceNews.

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll be feeling very powerful after today’s topic: the quasar! In the 1950’s radio astronomers got quite a surprise. They thought ...

Take three black holes and throw them into the disk surrounding a supermassive black hole and things get really weird, really fast.

Samples from asteroid Ryugu are the most pristine pieces of our solar system ever studied and contain amino acids that could have given rise to life on Earth.

Researchers have provided the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution, no...

An international team of astronomers has performed timing observations of an eccentric millisecond pulsar known as PSR J0955'6150. Results of the observational campaign, published March 1 on the arXiv pre-print server, d...

Following a competition, ESA has selected the industrial team that will design and build the first experimental payload to extract oxygen from the surface of the moon. The winning consortium, led by Thales Alenia Space i...