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NASA's Parker Solar Probe is on a mission to study the sun closer than ever before. Learn more about the fastest spacecraft to date in our solar probe guide.

Black holes are real, they're some of the strangest objects in space. Discover what black holes are and how they form with our informative black hole guide.

Week in images: 02-06 May 2022 Discover our week through the lens

The current definition of habitable zone only examines the amount of sunlight reaching a planet. It may be time to question that definition.

One of the great things about science is that it builds on itself over time. Data collected decades ago is still valid and helps scientists spot trends that would otherwise be lost in the flurry of new data they are tryi...

We’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets and are likely to find many thousands more of them. While the wide variety of planets we’ve found are scientifically interesting in their own right, what lurks behind all thes...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Increasing costs and delays have forced Telesat to downsize plans for 298 low Earth orbit satellites by a third to keep within its $5 billion budget. The post Telesat to order 100 fewer satellites for LEO ...

Astronauts will likely make it to the Red Planet's surface before the end of the 2020s, according to SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell.

Virgin Galactic is again postponing the start of commercial service of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane from late 2022 to early 2023, blaming the latest delay on supply chain and labor issues. The post Virgin Galac...

NASA's Mars InSight lander just detected the two most powerful "marsquakes" to date, which are already revealing things about Mars' geology. The post InSight Senses its two Biggest Marsquakes so far, Coming From the Oppo...

Approximately a month before it begins its research flight in the stratosphere, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III has looked at the Sun for the first time from its launch site at the Arctic Circle. In June,...

NASA officials gave an update Thursday on the status of the Artemis I moon rocket launch saying it likely is targeting early- to mid-June before it rolls back out to the launch pad for a wet dress rehearsal at Kennedy Sp...

NASA's next-generation observatory is entering the last stages of preparation before showing scientists an all-new view of the universe.

Aspiring space tourists will need to wait a little longer before soaring into suborbital space with Virgin Galactic.

A group of astronomers, led by Sierk van Terwisga from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, have analyzed the mass distribution of over 870 planet-forming disks in the Orion A cloud. By exploiting the statistical prop...

Scientists are investigating the elusive neutrino with a new experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

You may have heard that Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin recently threatened, yet again, to pull his nation out of the International Space Station program. Here's what's actually going on.

What is the multiverse? The idea that the universe we inhabit is just one of many parallel universes gets a superhero shout-out in "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," the latest movie based on Marvel comic-b...

China's LinkSpace plans to send a rocket into space and land it safely in late 2022, three years after the startup's last major test.

Intelsat announced financial, commercial and aviation leadership changes May 5 to guide the satellite operator's post-bankruptcy future. The post New Intelsat CEO builds out leadership team appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will speak to elementary school students about the future of space exploration Monday, May 9, and tour a lab working on robotic construction technologies Tuesday, May 10, during a trip to F...

Humans have long dreamed of setting foot on Mars or beyond, and the advances by companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin means perhaps the dream could be closer than ever to becoming reality. But as it stands now, sending a...