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Astronomy has a blind spot in the area of far-infrared radiation compared to most other wavelengths. A far-infrared space telescope can only utilize its full sensitivity with an actively cooled mirror at temperatures bel...

In a joint effort between NASA's MAVEN spacecraft and the United Arab Emirates' Emirates Mars mission (EMM), scientists have observed an uncommonly chaotic interaction between the solar wind and Mars’ upper atmosphere,...

The iconic Voyager spacecraft seen through the eyes of an archaeologist.

Sierra Nevada Corporation and its space subsidiary racked up several aerospace deals in August.

In 1982, author James Michener published his sprawling Space Race novel, Space. In it, he describes a fictional Apollo 18 mission to the Moon. While the astronauts are on the surface, the Sun unleashes a huge storm, trap...

Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Hawai i Island have captured from Maunakea the most detailed and complete images ever taken of the zone where the famed constellation of Orion gets zapped with ultraviolet ...

New research from historical sources indicates that Betelgeuse had a yellowish hue around two millennia ago.

From Mesa Verde to the Mayans, these ancient societies collapsed without water.

The spaceflight doubleheader involved a Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket and a Long March 2D, which launched from different spaceports 115 minutes apart late Monday and early Tuesday (Sept. 5 and Sept. 6).

Pearl Jam's new record, 'Gigaton,' moves listeners beyond Earthly bounds to reflect on our changing planet.

Aerospace Corp. unveiled a 90,000-square-foot Space Warfighting Center to provide high-tech tools for military space agencies The post Aerospace opens $100 million facility in Colorado Springs for military space activiti...

In the early hours of Sunday, September 4, Solar Orbiter flew by Venus for a gravity-assist maneuver that alters the spacecraft's orbit, getting it even closer to the sun. As if trying to get the orbiter's attention as i...

Thousands of never-before-seen young stars are spotted in a stellar nursery called 30 Doradus, captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula for the appearance of its dusty filam...

Mars appears closest to the bright star Aldebaran of the Taurus constellation Tuesday (Sept. 6). The pair will be visible high in the south before sunrise.

The Defense Department released an updated policy document that recognizes space "as a priority domain of national military power" and formally adopts rules for safe operations in space. The post DoD updates space policy...

Given all of the planned international lunar activity, emergencies could happen that will call for the unconstrained mobilization of all possible aids.

As Earth passes through the primary spiral arms of the Milky Way, thick interstellar clouds may hammer the planet with comets that have helped create the continental crust.

Take a giant leap for mankind with the Lego Lunar Research Base.

Observations of a violent galactic merger that occurred between 6 and 7 billion years ago could help solve the mystery of how galaxies "die," or stop forming stars.

The images to emerge from the James Webb Space Telescope have captured details of the cosmos never seen before, leaving the scientific community and public alike in a state of awe. In a Tweet, former President Barack Oba...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured images of a brown dwarf with silicate particles in its atmosphere. In their paper posted on the arXiv preprint server, astronomers describe their analysis of the brown dwarf...

How many intelligent civilizations should there be in our galaxy right now? In 1961, U.S. astrophysicist Frank Drake, who passed away on September 2 at the age of 92, came up with an equation to estimate this. The Drake ...