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The asteroid is flying through space in the grainy black and white video, when suddenly a massive cloud of debris sprays out in front of it, meaning only one thing: impact.

Since 2014, SOFIA has been cruising through the night skies around the world, looking at the cosmos, but that mission ends this week.

In a recent report, researchers with the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center recommend that we search for extraterrestrial intelligence here in the Solar System. The post Upcoming Missions Could Search for An...

For billions of years, the Milky Way's largest satellite galaxies--the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds--have followed a perilous journey. Orbiting one another as they are pulled in toward our home galaxy, they have beg...

A tiny cubesat operated by the San Francisco company Planet spotted methane gas bubbling up from a breached pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

Lynk Global said Sept. 28 it will test the ability to send a 5G signal from a satellite launching in December to standard mobile devices, after getting funding for the demonstration from an undisclosed partner. The post ...

The NRO awarded study contracts to commercial RF providers Aurora Insight, HawkEye 360, Kleos Space, PredaSAR, Spire Global and Umbra Lab. The post NRO signs agreements with six commercial providers of space-based RF dat...

Jupiter's upper atmosphere should be pretty cold, but it is surprisingly quite hot. The post Jupiter’s Atmosphere is Surprisingly Hot appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA has selected GHGSat, Inc., of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to provide commercial small constellation satellite products for evaluation to determine the utility for advancing NASA's science and application goals. GHGSat...

Lunar glass reveals that large meteorite strikes on Earth, like the impact that killed the dinosaurs, were not isolated events.

A Curtin-led research team has found asteroid impacts on the moon millions of years ago coincided precisely with some of the largest meteorite impacts on Earth, such as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Using images taken by JunoCam, a team of citizen scientists have created a 3D animation of Jupiter's atmosphere The post A Fascinating Look at Jupiter's Clouds Where the Light Intensity is Converted Into 3D appeared firs...

When NASA's 990-pound Dragonfly rotorcraft reaches the Selk crater region--the mission's target touchdown spot--on Saturn's moon Titan in 2034, Cornell's Léa Bonnefoy will have helped to make it a smooth landing.

Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti on Wednesday became the first European woman to take over command of the International Space Station during a ceremony broadcast live from space.

Compared with Earth, the surfaces of most other objects in the solar system appear largely static. Planetary scientists have long believed that impacts from space debris are the principal source of change on these surfac...

A Russian cosmonaut made a hopeful reference to the end of war while handing command of the ISS to Samantha Cristoforetti, the first European woman in charge of the orbiting lab.

Hurricane Ian has grown into an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm above the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Florida landfall.

Dr. Xu Zhe, Prof. Yan Xiaoli and colleagues from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed how an active region (AR) evolves, re-configures the upper coronal structures, and eventually con...

Wicked Brick offers stunning bespoke display cases and stands for Lego kits, but they're not cheap.

A number of emerging European commercial rocket companies are vying to reach orbit first, with debut launches expected in the second half of 2023.

Here's one of the best videos we've seen of the last minutes of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission as it headed towards and slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos. This stabilized version of the last five-a...

Media accreditation is open for the launch of the next commercial resupply services mission to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.