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The palm-sized Autel EVO Nano+ offers advanced features while keeping its weight below 250g.

Far away in the Ursa Major constellation is a swirling galaxy that would not look out of place on a coffee made by a starry-eyed barista...

L3Harris is making a strategic investment in laser communications company Mynaric with plans to make increased use of that technology for space and other applications. The post L3Harris makes strategic investment in Myna...

Newly-developed orbital and suborbital launch vehicles are being readied for test flights at the Jiuquan spaceport as China's efforts to foster a commercial space sector advance. The post New launch vehicles set for test...

In a complex role-played version of a mission to the Moon, controllers at ESOC combined with a team of geological scientists and ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter to oversee a rover's collection of rock samples. Acting as if h...

Indian startup Digantara said July 6 its space weather monitoring payload ROBI is operational onboard a spent upper stage of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The post Communications established with payload on sta...

Najran Region, Saudi Arabia (18.5°N 45.5°E), 26 Jun 2022...

This scene is a jumbled mess! There are blocks and smears of many different rocks types that appear to have been dumped into a pile....

Virgin Galactic announced July 6 it signed an agreement with a Boeing subsidiary to build two new aircraft that will be used as launch platforms for its next-generation suborbital spaceplanes. The post Virgin Galactic se...

NASA said Wednesday that contact has been restored with its $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit.

Adding to the growing list of commercial deliveries slated to explore more of the Moon than ever before under Artemis, NASA has selected two new science instrument suites, including one that will study the mysterious Gru...

The massive eruption from the underwater Tonga volcano earlier this year generated a blast so powerful, it sent the fastest pressure waves ever observed in our atmosphere rippling around the globe.

ESA-sponsored medical doctor Nick Smith snapped this photo of the storage containers at Concordia research station in Antarctica shortly before sunset, 8 April 2021. The dark blue line at the horizon is the shadow of the...

We may not have to wait too much longer for the first-ever orbital test flight of SpaceX's Starship deep-space transportation system.

Astrophysicists are puzzled by the discovery of a star whipping around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way in close proximity and faster than any star previously found.

NASA's tiny CAPSTONE moon probe is back in touch with its handlers, ending a short but spooky silent period.

A space rock at least the size of a bus will safely whiz by our planet today, and you can watch the event on a free livestream.

As missions for deep space exploration and space habitats are put on the agenda, astronauts need to withstand being tested by multiple stressors in confined and isolated conditions during such long flights, especially be...

An early-stage Martian sailplane soared aloft, tethered to a balloon, as engineers ponder the possibilities to expand Red Planet flight.

When a tiny space rock hit the asteroid Bennu, it caused a landslide across the space rock and a massive crater.

The mystery of how the first quasars in the universe formed--something that has baffled scientists for nearly 20 years--has now been solved by a team of astrophysicists whose findings are published in Nature.

Big data has become a big challenge for space scientists analyzing vast datasets from increasingly powerful space instrumentation. To address this, a Southwest Research Institute team has developed a machine learning too...