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Something ancient and primordial lurks in Earth’s core. Helium 3 (3He) was created in the first minutes after the Big Bang, and some of it found its way through time and space to take up residence in Earth’s deepest ...

Solar energy generation keeps on becoming cheaper and more efficient, but some basic limitations will always apply: solar panels can only generate power during the daytime, and much of the sunlight is absorbed by the atm...

Canada's Telesat said April 4 it has gained the security clearances it needs to sell directly to U.S. government customers. The post Telesat gets security clearance to serve US government directly appeared first on Space...

A mass grave in the Ukrainian town of Bucha that may contain several hundred bodies has been spotted from space.

Hiring challenges in the space industry will lead to more acquisitions as way for companies to access talent and expand their workforces, investors said during an April 4 space finance session at the 37th Space Symposium...

An ultra-powerful scan of the pyramid's interior could finally reveal the contents of two mysterious voids inside the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

There's an unmistakable "Stardust City" vibe as "Star Trek" goes "Mission: Impossible" in 'Star Trek: Picard' season 2 episode 5.

The seven-member Expedition 67 crew will wait an extra day to greet the first private astronauts who are due to launch this weekend to the International Space Station....

Combining data from the APOGEE survey and the Gaia Observatory with sophisticated models, a team of scientists has found a new ring structure in the Milky Way! The post The Milky Way has an Inner Ring, Just Outside the C...

For the moment, Millennium Space System's new small satellite factory looks like a series of huge rooms that are mostly empty except for powerful yellow cranes in the corners and impressive power strips lining the walls....

The German environmental satellite EnMAP was successfully launched into space on Friday evening from Cape Canaveral in Florida on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The "science" team of the EnMAP mission at the German Rese...

To prepare for its launch in August, the Psyche spacecraft has been tested to ensure it can operate in the extreme conditions it will face on its trip to a metal-rich asteroid.

Millennium Space Systems is working closely with Boeing, its corporate parent, to gear up for rapid production of spacecraft for government and commercial constellations. The post Millennium works with Boeing to address ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft and NASA will share details at the 37th Space Symposium on 24 research experiments completed to date on the International Space Station's HPE Spaceborne Computer-2. The post Spacebor...

Ice and dust pile on the Martian surface like a layer cake in fresh images based on data from the Mars Express spacecraft.

"Star Trek Online" boldly expands the Mirror Universe with new union with IDW Publishing.

Fifty years after it was brought back from the moon, a lunar rock has moved from the "Most Magical Place on Earth" to the "Show Me State." NASA presented the rock to The Space Museum in Missouri.

The statistical physics of phase transitions has solved one of science's greatest conundrums (cough).

NASA's airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance, or air-LUSI, flew aboard NASA's ER-2 aircraft from March 12 to 16 to accurately measure the amount of light reflected off the Moon. Reflected moonlight is a steady source of lig...

The presence of unusually energetic gamma rays seen in some afterglows from intense gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) could be explained by a new mathematical model developed by RIKEN researchers. This finding could help to shed l...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an "intense and violent process." This discovery supports a long-debated theory ...

A large metal ring and sphere that villagers in rural western India said fell from the sky over the weekend could be from a Chinese rocket launched into space last year, officials told local media.