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The electric vehicle company that recently won a NASA contract to provide a modern version of the "Astrovan" to transport Artemis astronauts to the launch pad warned May 10 it may soon run out of money. The post Electric...

In our sun's neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy is a relatively bright star, and in it, astronomers have been able to identify the widest range of elements in a star beyond our solar system yet.

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The IG determined that the U.S. Space Command basing decision "complied with Federal Law and DoD policy and that the process was reasonable" The post DoD inspector general finds nothing improper in U.S. Space Command bas...

Elon Musk says Russian hackers are increasing efforts to take down SpaceX's Starlink broadband service amid the war in Ukraine. The post As US blames Russia for KA-SAT hack, Starlink sees growing threat appeared first on...

Evidence is growing that Mars, now cold and dry, had liquid water running on its surface much more recently than previously thought.

Like every solar-panel-powered vehicle on Mars, maintaining electrical power always becomes an issue at some point in the mission. Last week, mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory lost contact with the Ing...

Genetic information extracted from 12 ancient people buried in the San Francisco Bay Area is providing new evidence of what the unrecognized Muwekma Ohlone Tribe has known all along.

Our Solar System contains eight planets and more than 200 moons. The large majority of those moons have no chance of being habitable, but some of them--Europa and Enceladus, for example--are strong candidates in the sear...

When stars like our sun use up all their fuel, they shrink to form white dwarfs. Sometimes such dead stars flare back to life in a super-hot explosion and produce a fireball of X-ray radiation. A research team from sever...

The Expedition 67 crew is ramping up for the arrival of Boeing's new Starliner crew ship due to launch next week to the International Space Station....

China's Zhurong Mars rover is adjusting to its first winter on the Red Planet while its companion orbiter continues to map the world from above.

British microlauncher startup Orbex unveiled a full-scale prototype May 11 of what it hopes will be the first-ever vertical rocket launched to orbit from British soil. The post Orbex unveils prototype of rocket preparing...

Liquid water once shaped the rock inside a meteorite from Mars, but likely did not support any microbial life, a new study finds.

The Chandrasekhar limit determines whether a star ends its life as a smoldering white dwarf or explodes in a supernova becoming a neutron star or black hole.

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'Dinosaur Apocalypse,' a PBS NOVA special narrated by Sir David Attenborough, attempts to reconstruct the day Earth was hit by an asteroid 66 million years ago.

Rapidly growing congestion of the space environment demands heightened Executive and Legislative Branch attention to protect the astronauts aboard the International Space Station, billions of dollars of U.S. investment, ...

Orbex's Prime rocket reaching technical readiness represents a significant achievement that brings together key elements of the ground infrastructure and prototype launch vehicle for the first time and is a major step fo...

Volcanic eruptions do more than send lava and clouds of noxious gas across the landscape, and trigger tsunamis and sonic booms. Sometimes they reach for space! In the case of the January 2022 underwater eruption of Tonga...

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Satellites help run the internet and television and are central to the Global Positioning System. They enable modern weather forecasting, help scientists track environmental degradation and play a huge role in modern mil...