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A focus on plant diversity and maintaining wild tracts of forest helped some Maya cities succeed for centuries.

Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck: All the talk about responsive launch often ignores the reality that if satellites aren't ready on time, they can't take advantage of rapid launch capabilities The post NRO satellite upgrades de...

Congress has passed the first NASA authorization bill in more than five years, formally extending operations of the International Space Station and backing NASA's Artemis exploration effort. The post Congress passes NASA...

Astronomers have created the largest ever 3D map of 1 million distant galaxies otherwise obscured by the Milky Way's dwarf galaxy neighbors, the Magellanic Clouds.

Night-shining or noctilucent clouds are popping up farther from the poles, in part due to more rocket launches taking place from Earth.

The most extensive inventory of atmospheric optical illusions created in 5 millennia of observation reveals lingering mysteries.

Since the 1960s, researchers have been searching for a 3D model of coronal loops of bright plasma seen on the sun. New research is causing scientists to rethink this phenomenon.

Blue Origin is targeting Thursday (Aug. 4) for the next crewed mission of its New Shepard vehicle, which will send six people to suborbital space and back.

The James Webb Space Telescope is enabling all kinds of next-generation astronomy, including producing accurate mass measurements of the most distant galaxies. The post The James Webb is Measuring Distant Galaxies 5-10 T...

A parsec is a standard astronomical measurement that is often misunderstood.

This weekend might have three meteor showers active at the same time, combining to provide a celestial firework display almost all through the night.

The deliberate pace for human brain growth ensures that when cells divide, each daughter cell gets one copy of DNA, a new study finds.

Masten Space Systems, a company developing a lunar lander for a NASA mission, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy July 28 with plans to sell one of its major assets to a competitor. The post Masten Space Systems files for ba...

The head of Russia's space agency said Friday that the country has not set a date for pulling out of the International Space Station program, noting that it would only do that after it puts its own space station in orbit...

Week in images: 25-29 July 2022 Discover our week through the lens

The Delta Aquarrids meteor shower peaks tonight (July 29). The shower commonly generates about 15-20 meteors per hour and is best viewed around 3 a.m. local time.

In just a few months' time Europe's first Meteosat Third Generation satellite will soar into the skies on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. From geostationary orbit, this new satellite, carrying two new highly sensi...

A draft Senate appropriations bill released July 28 would fund NASA at the same overall level the agency requested, but with adjustments to some science, technology and exploration programs. The post Draft Senate appropr...

Europe's planned Venus exploration mission will depend on a challenging aerobraking procedure to lower its orbit, which will test the thermal resiliency of its materials to the limits.

The runaway star is dashing across the galaxy at more than 100,000 mph, thanks to a massive explosion that happened more than a million years ago.

NASA is working toward an Aug. 29 launch target date for Artemis 1, which will use a Space Launch System megarocket to send an uncrewed Orion capsule on a multiweek mission around the moon.

A TikTok video from European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti dished about the smells of the International Space Station, particularly the toilet and trash.