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China's Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahead of a NASA and ESA joint mission. The post China aims to bring Mars samples to Earth 2 y...

On Monday at 10:20 a.m. Central time, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus NG CRS-17 engine was scheduled to fire for 5 minutes, 1 second to test the cargo craft's ability to reboost the International Space Station in the future......

NASA approved a demonstration flight for DiskSat, the thin round satellite designed by the Aerospace Corp. The post NASA approves demonstration flight for circular DiskSats appeared first on SpaceNews.

A planned reboost maneuver of the International Space Station ended after just 5 seconds for reasons currently unknown.

Pixar Studios' new Buzz Lightyear origin story, "Lightyear," fails to ignite the imagination.

For nearly 30 years Geoff Notkin has traveled the world in search of meteorites, those ancient relics from outer space that have fallen to Earth. He shared his adventures on the Science Channel series "Meteorite Men," an...

The samples obtained by Hayabusa2 have revealed that the Near Earth Asteroid Ryugu contains 20 strains of amino acids - the buildings blocks of life! The post Samples of Asteroid Ryugu Contain More Than 20 Amino Acids ap...

Between zero gravity and small sleeping quarters, astronauts have to sleep in space, even if it's difficult.

Jupiter's innards are full of the remains of baby planets that the gas giant gobbled up as it expanded to become the behemoth we see today, scientists have found.

A collection of medieval skeletons discovered in an old latrine has puzzled archaeologists for decades.

NASA says the $10 billion observatory checked out 7 of its 17 instrument modes for science operations.

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act proposes adding $75 million to the Pentagon's budget for "tactically responsive space." The post House Arme...

The small, eel-like 'Paleospondylus gunni' fish has been a taxonomic troublemaker since its discovery in 1890. A recent paper proposes some answers about the prehistoric fish, with unexpected links to early tetrapod evol...

The structure of the universe is often described as being a cosmic web of filaments, nodes, and voids, with the nodes being clusters of galaxies, the largest gravitationally bound objects known. These nodes are thought t...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its second close flyby of Mercury on 23 June. ESA's spacecraft operation team is guiding BepiColombo through six gravity assists of the planet before entering orbit arou...

By analyzing the data from the Spektr-RG (SRG) space observatory and from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and elsewhere have discovered two new polar...

The project is no longer active, but may assist with future lunar spacesuit development.

The moon will approach Jupiter in the early hours of Tuesday morning (June 21) on the summer solstice. The duo will be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.

Astronomers are watching a red hypergiant star's final era to better understand what happens at the end of a stellar life cycle.

Thousands of distant galaxies in different shapes and sizes glow in infrared light in a newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers have traced the violent and catastrophic evolution of Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor, by analyzing the makeup and motion of more than 500 stars within the nearby galaxy.

The pinnacle of Star Wars Lego, the Lego Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon is perhaps the best Lego set ever.