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It's an early-stage project, but researchers say a new biofuel holds potential for low-carbon rocket launches.

Explore the eight (or nine) planets of the solar system in order from nearest to the sun and discover the many wonders of our solar system along the way.

Since September, the Perseverance rover has been picking along an ancient river delta on Mars, its robotic arms reaching out with whirling steel drill bits to core rocks, scoop soil and suck small amounts of the red plan...

Namibia (19.5°S 12.7°E), 16 Jun 2022...

A very small instrument has a big job ahead of it: measuring all Earth-directed energy coming from the Sun and helping scientists understand how that energy influences our planet's severe weather, climate change and othe...

The hollow cell structure of this 1.5 tonne block, 3D printed from simulated lunar dust, let it combine strength with low weight, like bird bones....

Ahead of World Wetlands Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lake Titicaca - one of the largest lakes in South America....

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 2051, a galaxy in the southern constellation of Mensa (The Table Mountain), lying about 85 million light-years away....

Researchers have discovered tiny, never-before-seen carbon crystals in meteorite dust left over from the explosion of the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013.

The blobs are irregular groups of young blue stars thought to have formed in a galactic collision that scientists liken to a belly flop.

Here's where to watch Independence Day on the day itself.

Solar eclipses are one of nature's most spectacular events. Here we explore what they are and the different types of solar eclipses.

NASA's CAPSTONE mission successfully executed a spacecraft burn Monday (July 4) and started its solo journey to the moon.

A NASA-funded lunar cubesat is on its way to the moon July 4 after a series of burns by a Rocket Lab transfer stage. The post CAPSTONE heads to the moon appeared first on SpaceNews.

A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday and is headed toward the moon, the latest step in NASA's plan to land astronauts on the lunar surface again.

We're over half way into the year but there's plenty more on offer when it comes to upcoming sci-fi movies in 2022.

In 2012, jubilant physicists working on the world's most powerful science experiment announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle scientists had been searching for since 1964.

The moon and several planets will join the fireworks on the Fourth.

Stars appear to twinkle because the light from these distant objects passes through wobbly air in the atmosphere.

Image: Cosmic manatee accelerates particles from head

The government of New Zealand has formally joined a U.S.-led ban on testing of destructive direct-ascent ASAT weapons in an effort to build momentum for a global prohibition on such tests. The post New Zealand joins ASAT...