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It’s been an amazing couple of weeks for fans of gravitational lensing. JWST grabbed the headlines with a spectacular infrared view of lensing in the SMACS 0723 image, and that had everybody talking. Yet, seeing gravit...

China added a laboratory to its permanent orbiting space station Monday as it moves toward completing the structure in coming months.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft captured impressive new views of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system in the solar system.

Observations are on hold at the famed telescope facility after a wildfire tore through the area in June, leaving behind damage that is still being assessed.

Sunlight, or even the lightbulbs in your supermarket, can create aromas of cabbage or wet dog in your wine.

The Defense Innovation Unit is funding space projects that the agency hopes will spur commercial investments in satellite refueling technologies and support services for geostationary satellites. The post DoD signaling d...

A deal with Axiom Space will see Sultan AlNeyadi fly to the ISS on SpaceX's Crew-6 mission for NASA, which is expected to launch in spring 2023.

Scientists say that the growth rate of ancient arthropods resembles that of today's small, slow-growing crustaceans.

IDW Publishing has announced a new flagship "Star Trek" comic series launching this fall

China has once again opted to let a huge rocket stage fall back to Earth on its own.

A review for director Jordan Peele's new sci-fi invasion thriller, "Nope."

Here's our intergalactic treasure trove of the best sci-fi movies that you need to watch.

Dennis Andrucyk, director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has announced his intent to retire after more than 36 years of federal service, including multiple leadership roles at NASA and as G...

A team of researchers at MIT has found via theoretical modeling that the saltiness of the oceans on Saturn's moon, Enceladus, may be the right level to sustain life. In their paper published in the journal Science Advanc...

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Planetary scientists from Rice University, NASA's Johnson Space Center and the California Institute of Technology have an answer to a mystery that's puzzled the Mars research community since NASA's Curiosity rover discov...

China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter has returned a stunning image of the Martian moon Phobos to mark the second anniversary of the mission's launch.

Image: Hundreds of residents and tourists have been evacuated from the Greek island of Lesbos after a wildfire broke out on the morning of 23 July. This image, captured by Sentinel-2, shows the active fire front which st...

New research shows why Jupiter doesn't have thick, bright rings like Saturn's.

Eutelsat said July 25 it is in talks to merge with OneWeb to create a global multi-orbit satellite broadband operator. The post Eutelsat and OneWeb discussing multi-orbit merger plan appeared first on SpaceNews.

The field of exoplanet study has come a long way in recent decades. To date, 5,063 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,794 systems beyond our own, with another 8,819 candidates awaiting confirmation. In the coming years,...

NASA will highlight groundbreaking discoveries, benefits for humanity, and how the agency and its commercial and international partners will maximize research and development aboard the International Space Station at the...