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Mars is racing toward a new season of dust storms, mighty wind-driven clouds of dust that can cover thousands of square miles or even the entire planet.

General Dynamics Mission Systems won a $324.5 million contract to operate the ground systems and manage network operations of the Space Development Agency's low Earth orbit constellation. The post General Dynamics wins g...

SpaceX will replace the heat shield on the next Crew Dragon spacecraft flying to the International Space Station after it failed inspections, but NASA says there is no risk of a similar problem for the spacecraft current...

This weekend, Earthlings might be treated to the sight of a new meteor shower. Astronomers certainly hope it happens.

SpaceX said May 27 that Nigeria has joined Mozambique as the first countries in Africa to approve its Starlink broadband services. The post Starlink approved in Nigeria and Mozambique, says Elon Musk appeared first on Sp...

Meteor storms can contain thousands of meteors an hour. Here, we take a look at some of history's greatest meteor storms dating back to the late 18th century.

Marvel Comics just announced two new "Star Wars: The High Republic" series arriving in October and November 2022.

Obi-Wan Kenobi, decked in his Jedi glory from the new Disney Plus series, is available for a brief time in the Fortnite shop.

A new technique that incorporates quantum techniques to interferometry could trigger another revolution in astronomy! The post A new Quantum Technique Could Enable Telescopes the Size of Planet Earth appeared first on Un...

Grab an Estes rocket or launch set at a bargain price with these Amazon Memorial Day discounts.

Ball Aerospace and Raytheon Intelligence & Space will begin developing ocean color sensors for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's next generation of geostationary weather satellites under contracts ann...

Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent flight in which the rotorcraft flew farther and faster than ever before.

What if we thought of our ancestors as a form of alien life?

NASA has refuted a report alleging a potentially dangerous complication during SpaceX's Ax-1 mission to the International Space Station last month.

No object in the solar system experiences the sun's solar wind more powerfully than Mercury. The planet's magnetic field deflects the sun's stream of electrically charged particles at a distance of only 1,000 kilometers ...

There were no worries whatsoever about the space rock, which passed by at a very safe distance.

Just a few months ago, we were confidently expecting to launch our rover, Rosalind Franklin, to Mars in September as part of the ExoMars mission, a collaboration between Europe and Russia. The landing was planned for Jun...

British small satellite startup Open Cosmos said May 27 it has secured European Space Agency funding to develop plans for a space weather monitoring constellation. The post UK's Open Cosmos gets ESA funding for space wea...

Our planet's oceans generate tell-tale light signatures when sunlight reflects off them. Exoplanets with significant ocean coverage may do the same. Can we use the Earth's reflectance signatures to identify other Earth-l...

Understanding the effects of microgravity on the human body is essential in enabling astronauts to travel through the harsh environment of space for months, or even years. Significant changes to the body's skeletal and m...

Classifying celestial objects is a long-standing problem. With sources at near unimaginable distances, sometimes it's difficult for researchers to distinguish between objects such as stars, galaxies, quasars or supernova...

With its mirror segments beautifully aligned and its scientific instruments undergoing calibration, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from full operation. Soon after the first observations are revealed...