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As the Mars rover traverses the planet, it's come across pieces of its entry, landing, and descent hardware.

It's true that the dark matter hypothesis has its shortcomings -- and, of course, we haven't found any dark matter particles yet. But the truth is that the alternatives are much worse.

As NASA prepares to select the crew of the second Artemis mission, the agency's chief astronaut says the entire astronaut corps, and not a previously announced subset, is eligible for that flight and future missions to t...

An interstellar meteorite could be hiding in the ocean. Why doesn't Jupiter have rings like Saturn. The time when Earth's magnetic field almost collapsed. The shortest day on Earth, and Planet 9 is running out of places ...

Nocturnal behaviors have been evolved to take advantage of the darkness of night. Yet today, they are under an increasing threat from the presence of artificial lighting.

Researchers have discovered a method for making high-resolution maps of planetary surfaces like the moon's by combining available imagery and topography data.

In a recent study published in the Journal of High Energy Physics, two researchers from Brown University demonstrated how data from past missions to Jupiter can help scientists examine dark matter, one of the most myster...

As soon as I saw these new artificial intelligence image creation tools, like DALL-E, I wanted to see how well they’d work for generating space and astronomy images. I’m still on the waiting list for DALL-E 2, so I d...

India's new SSLV rocket is scheduled to launch for the first time on Saturday night (Aug. 6), and you can watch the debut live.