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SpaceX had its busiest month yet in April in terms of launches as the company emphasizes the value of a high flight rate. The post Falcon 9 busier than ever as Starship reviews delayed again appeared first on SpaceNews.

13-year-old prodigy Elliott Tanner has graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in physics and mathematics.

A new NASA STEM video explains how astronauts train to use nonverbal hand signals

Earth's Mantle Nitrogen Content Is Comparable To That Found In Its Nitrogen-Rich Atmosphere....

All kinds of challenges will face the first humans to travel to Mars. One that has been much discussed, with no potential solution yet, is the potential for a significant amount of bone density loss on the three-year mis...

The images released by the James Webb Space Telescope team last week aren't officially 'first light' images from the new telescope, but in a way, it feels like they are. These stunning views provide the initial indicatio...

If there are so many galaxies, stars, and planets, where are all the aliens, and why haven’t we heard from them? Those are the simple questions at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. In a new paper, a pair of researchers a...

An international research team, including scientists at Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, has used a new observation technique to discover the brightest extragalactic pulsar known, and it could even be the most...

NASA is asking the public to comment on an environmental assessment for its Mars sample return effort.

NASA's new deep-space observatory will soon move between hot and cold in a crucial test of its infrared viewing capabilities.

May offers an unusual skywatching bounty: the possibility of two major celestial highlights occurring within the span of a single month.

In the time since the first exoplanet was discovered in 1992, astronomers have detected more than 5,000 planets orbiting other stars. But when astronomers detect a new exoplanet, we don't learn a lot about it: We know th...

This is reminiscent of going down slide on the playground - and then immediately getting back in line to go down again. Except in space. Here's what it looks like on board the International Space Station when thrusters f...

The sun emitted a strong solar flare on April 30, 2022, peaking at 9:47 a.m. EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event.

In a new study, an international team examines Mars' radiation environment and determined that the best place to build an underground habitat is where the atmosphere is thickest. The post Which Parts of Mars are the Safe...

A new image captures two planets with ancient significance meeting up over the famous old city of Rome on Sunday (May 1).

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower may generate as many as 50 shooting stars an hour during its peak on Thursday (May 5), weather permitting.

There's an old joke that the dinosaurs are only extinct because they didn't develop a space agency. The implication, of course, is that unlike our reptilian ancestors, we humans might be able to save ourselves from an im...

Scattered across our Milky Way galaxy are tens of millions of black holes--immensely strong gravitational wells of spacetime, from which infalling matter, and even light, can never escape. Black holes are dark by definit...

The moon will point the way to the usually elusive Mercury tonight (May 2).

A new study finds that dry ice flows closer to 100 times faster than water ice in the thin atmospheres on Mars, when on high slopes.

German startup Vyoma said April 28 it has partnered with European IT giant Atos to build a database of tiny space objects that it plans to track with its own satellites from next year. The post Vyoma agrees data manageme...