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The new phase was made by firing lasers at 10 ytterbium ions inside a quantum computer.

Exoplanet images might be contaminated by the light from their neighbors, a new study suggests, but scientists are learning how to remove the effects of these photobombers.

For the first time, authorities have given a heat wave a name. Scientists hope that naming extreme heat events will help the public protect itself.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship returned to Earth with an ocean splashdown on Saturday (Aug. 20).

A new mathematical model can simulate if astronauts will be operate in Martian gravity after months of flying through space. The post How Weak Will Astronauts Feel When They First set Foot on Mars After Months in Space? ...

The U.S. Air Force selected five companies for a $4.8 billion multi-award contract to provide research, development and software services over 10 years for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center. The post Five co...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a star-studded cluster in the constellation Sagittarius.

There’s more than one way to produce oxygen on Mars. Or at least there is now. After the success of the MOXIE experiment that rode along with Perseverance to the red planet in 2021, another idea to produce one of the m...

A new study has cast doubt on the theory that Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos were once a single moon that split apart. The post Were Phobos and Deimos Once a Single Martian Moon That Split up? Not Likely, says New Study a...

There is still so much we don’t know about the asteroids. Various missions have already been sent to some near Earth and in the asteroid belt, but there are just so many that it is hard to keep track of them all. Lucy,...

Materials science has long taken the lead in space exploration research, and it seems to have been getting even more attention than usual lately. That is especially true for building materials. NASA has funded several ne...

Space science doesn’t always go as planned. Sometimes when scientists think they’ve made a remarkable discovery that will make human expansion into the cosmos easier, they are just flat-out wrong. But the beauty of s...

NASA has just announced its free livestream coverage plans for the Artemis 1 launch

Hard science fiction author Eric Choi talks about the inspiration behind the stories in his new collection, "Just Like Being There", which draws from many real-life space stories.

The Haughton-Mars Project is planting flags and leaving footprints, but in a very different way than Apollo astronauts did on the moon.