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NASA is preparing to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s. The 3-year mission will expose astronauts to a long period of microgravity, which will cause them to lose bone mass....

The Expedition 66 crew is turning its attention to the departure of three crew members late next week following the completion of a pair of spacewalks....

All about NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to embark on a long-duration space mission.

Hiring remains the most serious challenge space companies face. The post Panelists agree hiring remains the biggest challenge appeared first on SpaceNews.

Our Solar System was born in chaos. Collisions shaped and built the Earth and the other planets, and even delivered the building blocks of life. Without things smashing into each other, we might not be here. Thankfully, ...

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are scheduled to end their mission aboard the International Space Station and return to Earth on Wednesday, March 30.

The World Central Kitchen founder says the mission invokes "the spirit of eating paella from the same pan."

In a long-awaited moment, NASA scientists have unsealed an extraterrestrial time capsule 50 years after astronauts collected the rock and dust from the moon.

NASA's upcoming SPHEREx mission will have some similarities with the James Webb Space Telescope. But the two observatories will take dramatically different approaches to studying the sky.

North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday (March 24), its first test of a long-range weapon-delivery system since 2017, according to media reports.

Satellite makers are hopeful that higher frequency production rates will facilitate more innovation in the market, and fortify supply chains disrupted by the pandemic. The post Accelerating satellite production timelines...

The European sun-chasing spacecraft Solar Orbiter has snapped the closest image of the sun ever taken, revealing the finest details of our star's outer atmosphere, the corona.

Strange galaxy-sized circles are emitting radio light, and we don't know why. The post New Radio Images of Bizarre “Odd Radio Circles” Which are Vastly Bigger Than the Milky Way appeared first on Universe Today.

Until recently, one of the closest orbiting each other pairs of supermassive blackholes was found in NGC 7727. That pair is about 89 million light-years away from Earth. Those black holes are only 1,600 light-years apart...

The fine-structure constant is a seemingly random number with no units or dimensions, which has cropped up in so many places in physics, and seems to control one of the most fundamental interactions in the universe.

Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's (NYUAD) Center for Space Science have discovered a new set of waves in the sun that, unexpectedly, appear to travel much faster than predicted by theory.

The further we move away from a heat source, the cooler the air gets. Bizarrely, the same can't be said for the sun, but University of Otago scientists may have just explained a key part of why.

Millennium Space Systems plans to launch to orbit a 3D printed metal flight structure the company intends to use to build its next generation of satellite buses. The post Millennium Space to launch to orbit a 3D printed ...

Image: Solar Orbiter tracks solar features during closest approach

As human activity extends outward into the solar system, we'll need a way to keep track of space junk, and the growing number of missions around the moon and beyond.

We're still in the early days of searching for life elsewhere. The Perseverance rover is on its way to a paleo-delta on Mars to look for fossilized signs of ancient bacterial life. SETI's been watching the sky with radio...

Paramount Plus will finally debut their ambitious new "Halo" series today based on the iconic video game franchise from Microsoft/Bungie.