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Timbuktu, Mali (16.7°N 1.5°W), 14 May 2022 As Viewed By Sentinel 2...

The spiral arms of NGC 3631 are bursting with star-forming regions captured in a stunning Hubble Space Telescope image.

Members of the House Science Committee used a hearing about the planetary science decadal survey to criticize a proposal in NASA's budget request to delay work on a space telescope to track near Earth objects. The post H...

Dust storms and changing seasons will limit the ability of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter to fly for the next several months, a project engineer said May 27. The post Ingenuity "hunkering down" during Martian dust storms an...

China is gearing up to send the third crew to its new Tiangong space station, with launch set for late Saturday (June 4) U.S. Eastern time.

NS-21, the next mission of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle, is now targeted for Saturday (June 4) -- about two weeks later than originally planned.

A single flash from the sky pointed the way to a bizarre star that rotates very slowly, making it difficult to figure out if it's a pulsar or some other stellar object.

Now less than one year until the projected launch date, ESA's JUICE mission is in the final phases of development. The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) is now fully built with all ten instruments integrated into the sp...

Watching the skies for large asteroids that could pose a hazard to Earth is a global endeavor. So, to test their operational readiness, the international planetary defense community will sometimes use a real asteroid's c...

In about 5 billion years, the Sun will leave the main sequence and become a red giant. It’ll expand and transform into a glowering, malevolent ball and consume and destroy Mercury, Venus, Earth, and probably Mars. Can ...

Researchers discover ancient pterosaurs had feathers that were a splash of color, too.

"Shooting stars" from a new meteor shower lit up the night sky in a dazzling display, even if it wasn't a "meteor storm" some stargazers hoped for.

Cash-strapped smallsat operator Astrocast announced plans May 30 to buy Dutch connectivity solutions provider Hiber, which scrapped plans for its own constellation last year following failures on its initial satellites. ...

Microwave jammers, mini-satellites and space lasers could all be used to scuttle Starlink .

The CAPSTONE mission will test the feasibility of an energy-efficient orbit and navigation around the moon in preparation for the Artemis mission.

Japan's Himawari-8 weather satellite serendipitously captured the dramatic changes in brightness of Orion's red supergiant star in 2019-2020.

Sierra Space announced May 31 a strategic partnership with aerospace manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems for production of cargo modules for its Dream Chaser vehicles. The post Sierra Space to partner with Spirit AeroSystems...

The way each planet's atmosphere responds to methane might be responsible for the different hues of Uranus and Neptune.

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A geologist explains what the "doorway" on Mars really is and why it's so tempting to see recognizable shapes on other worlds.

One day you're a Jedi Knight, the next you're harvesting meat in the middle of the desert and living in a cave with your hairless camel...

You don't have to be an inquisitor to hunt down all of 'Obi-Wan Kenobi's' Easter eggs and Star Wars references, but it helps...