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Out in the desert in Arizona, "analog astronauts" gathered this weekend for an annual conference in a giant, futuristic habitat called Biosphere 2.

What turned Venus into hell? It could have simply been a steadily warming sun, but new research suggests that volcanoes may have played a role in creating a runaway greenhouse effect. And the same history of active Volca...

NASA announced Monday Dr. Marla Pérez-Davis, director of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, plans to retire in June after nearly four decades of service at the agency.

When Russia sent its armed forces into Ukraine amidst accusations of Nazism and NATO aggression, it left most of its credibility behind. What’s left of its credibility is in shreds as Russia lurches towards pariah stat...

A building-sized asteroid whizzed by our planet overnight at a very safe distance, just like all the other giant space rocks we know of.

Ncuti Gatwa, best known for his role in Netflix's "Sex Education" will be the 14th Doctor.

In-space transportation company Momentus has secured all the regulatory approvals for its first mission, set to launch later this month. The post Momentus receives approvals for first tug launch appeared first on SpaceNe...

90 percent of all exoplanets discovered to date (there are now more than 5000 of them) orbit around stars the same size or smaller than our sun. Giant stars seem to lack planetary companions, and this fact has serious im...

The passengers on Blue Origin's fifth crewed flight, known as NS-21, include the first Mexican-born woman to visit space.

A small study of the microbiome hints that an individual's energy levels might be linked to intestinal microbes.

Ingenuity appears to be in recovery from a communications glitch on Mars.

NASA and Boeing will hold a media teleconference at about 6 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 11, following the Flight Readiness Review for the agency's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), the second uncrewed flight test of t...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is sharper than ever in the infrared eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope.

The seven Expedition 67 crew members are enjoying an off-duty day today following the change of command of the station and the departure of the SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts last week....

China has launched a cargo mission to its Tianhe space station module in preparation for the arrival of a new crew in June.

Gravitational lensing provides an opportunity to see supernovae and other transients much farther than we normally can. A new research proposal outlines a plan to use a comprehensive catalog of strong gravitational lense...

An enormous hole 22 meters in diameter has been dug near the summit of Cerro Chajnantor in Chile's Atacama Desert, at an elevation of 18,400 feet. The hole stands ready for the cement foundation on which the Fred Young S...

The weapon, forged from an iron meteorite, may have come from beyond ancient Egypt's borders.

In anticipation of Artemis, the Canadian government just passed an amendment to extend its Criminal Code to the Moon! The post Canada's Criminal Laws now Extend to Earth Orbit and the Moon appeared first on Universe Toda...

Three years ago, the first ever image of a black hole stunned the world. A black pit of nothingness enclosed by a fiery ring of light. That iconic image of the black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87 came into focu...

Going to space changes a person. We’ve known that ever since NASA and the former Soviet Union started sending people to space back in the mid-20th Century. Not only does that trip affect an astronaut’s outlook (just ...

Discovering that many of the large moons in the outer solar system may host significant subsurface oceans of liquid water has been a key advance in planetary science. These moons represent some of the most promising habi...