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The future can arrive in sudden bursts. What seems a long way off can suddenly jump into view, especially when technology is involved. That might be true of self-replicating machines. Will we combine 3D printing with in-...

We also get our first look at the "builders" who originally constructed the Kaylon artificial lifeforms

Massachusetts students will have an opportunity this week to hear from crew members aboard the International Space Station, including a NASA astronaut.

The United Kingdom's Oxford Space Systems and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. completed construction of a deployable, Wrapped Rib antenna for small synthetic aperture radar satellites. The post Oxford Space and SSTL unv...

Scientists know little about this extinct subspecies that fall between modern humans and Neanderthals, named Denisovans, and this recent discovery could be proof they lived outside of Siberia.

Here's how to observe these solar system worlds overnight Wednesday (July 20) and Thursday (July 21).

Two major U.S. defense contractors announced the successful test flight of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, on Monday (July 18).

The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission will greatly expand our knowledge of the high-energy universe, and recently passed two key milestones on its path to observing the cosmos.

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch service for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission.

It's been nearly a century since astronomer Fritz Zwicky first calculated the mass of the Coma Cluster, a dense collection of almost 1,000 galaxies located in the nearby universe. But estimating the mass of something so ...

The mission to return Martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 meter-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic interplanetary delivery.

In space, no one wants to deal with the cleanup from liquids, flames or other messy science experiments.

The James Webb Space Telescope could reveal hints about exoplanet surfaces by studying the planets' atmospheric temperatures and moisture levels.

Two private companies, Relativity Space and Impulse Space, unveiled plans for the first commercial flight to Mars in 2024 using reusable rockets.

Microsoft is expanding its relationships with space companies through the Azure Space Partner Community, an initiative unveiled July 19 at the Microsoft Inspire 2022 conference. The post Microsoft reveals Azure Space Par...

Discover the top five mysteries that ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission will solve.

A team of researchers with affiliations to multiple institutions in the U.S. has found that the metal content of Fermi bubble high-velocity clouds does not match with material in the Milky Way's galactic center, suggesti...

Astronomers at the University of Arizona have developed a theory to explain the presence of the largest molecules known to exist in interstellar gas.

Smashed temperature records, wildfires and broiling soil are revealed in satellite data as Europe swelters in an extreme heatwave that is set to exacerbate a months-long drought.

One argument in favor of space exploration highlights benefits that help study, monitor and address serious concerns on Earth, like climate change and food production.

Stars don't usually evolve fast enough for humans to notice them change within one lifetime. Even a hundred lifetimes won't do--astronomical processes are just too slow. But not always. There are some phases of stellar e...

Astronomers have proposed a concept mission to fly a neutrino observatory into orbit around the sun to get a better picture of what's happening in the sun's core.