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Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, is ripe for human exploration that can uncover the planet's history and its capacity to sustain microbial life.

A fresh image based on brand-new deep-space data appears to show a wormhole spinning before our very eyes.

NASA's safety advisers warn that the agency's efforts to transition from the International Space Station to commercial space stations without a gap are on a "precarious trajectory." The post NASA safety advisers warn ISS...

Boba Fett rides again in a Hasbro Firespray ship much like a 1980 toy released for "The Empire Strikes Back."

The U.K. announced a public consultation July 22 to assess the environmental impact of the country's first space launch, as part of the licensing process for clearing Virgin Orbit's mission this year. The post UK launche...

A reusable variant of the megabooster could be available in 2035, five years after the series begins launches in 2030.

Have you heard of LU Camelopardalis, QZ Serpentis, V1007 Herculis and BK Lyncis? No, they’re not members of a boy band in ancient Rome. They’re Cataclysmic Variables, binary stars that are so close together one star ...

Startup SCOUT Space won a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Space Force to augment military systems with commercial data from space-based sensors The post SCOUT wins defense contract to de...

NASA is funding multiple commercial space stations, but some experts are concerned these will not be ready by the time the ISS is retired.

A research team recently discovered that zebrafish have the ability to repair damaged organs, especially the heart. This could be key in helping people who've had heart attacks.

Intense geomagnetic storms are possible in the coming days as Earth's magnetic field is bombarded by a solar storm cloud.

Pioneering new telescope surveys that use only the 10 minutes before sunrise and after sunset are searching for eccentric asteroids. They're finding some strange things.

ESA's upcoming EarthCARE satellite mission has just taken a big stretch. Engineers have gently unfolded this new satellite's huge five-panel solar wing to test that it will deploy correctly once it is in space. The solar...

Burning coal caused the largest mass extinction in earth's history -- the Late Permian Mass Extinction, or the Great Dying.

Near Earth's north and south poles, wispy, iridescent clouds often shimmer high in the summertime sky around dusk and dawn. These night-shining, or noctilucent, clouds are sometimes spotted farther from the poles as well...

Following the termination of the flight of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III on July 10, team members have reached the landing site and found the observatory's science payload largely intact. According to c...

A European team of astronomers led by Professor Kalliopi Dasyra of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, under participation of Dr. Thomas Bisbas, University of Cologne modeled several emission line...

A team led by Prof. Toru Misawa of the School of General Education, Shinshu University found for the first time that the internal donut-shaped structure of the central nuclei of bright galaxies in the distant universe ca...

Scott Sheppard, an astronomer with the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, has published a Perspective piece in the journal Science suggesting that it is time for the space science community to take a clo...

An international team of 23 researchers led by Maria Dainotti, Assistant Professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), has analyzed archive data for powerful cosmic explosions from the deaths of sta...

A new technique relying on the detection of faint radio signals might reveal the oldest stars that emerged amid thick hydrogen clouds in the ancient universe shortly after the Big Bang.

If you close your eyes and imagine a system of planets orbiting a distant star, what do you see?