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A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars. The maps offer the strongest case yet that the planet once experienced sea-level rise consistent with an extended wa...

Life and supernovae don't mix.

There’s still a raging debate in some circles as to whether Pluto should be a planet or not. Ask an astronomer, and their typical answer would be something like – if Pluto is a planet, then there are plenty of other ...

Uranus is a strange world, knocked on its side and with a lopsided magnetic field. Its moons may be even stranger.

In a recent study accepted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, an international team of researchers led by Texas A&M University investigate how the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect a var...

Boeing announced Oct. 26 it will take yet another charge against earnings because of delays in the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew program, bringing the total losses recorded by the company to date on the program to ne...

Christmas came one day early for a robotic geologist stationed on the Red Planet.

The unclassified version of the U.S. national defense strategy released by the Defense Department Oct. 27 forecasts a decades-long competition with China and lays out priorities for the military going forward. The post U...

In celebration of Halloween, Hubble brings you this inky image of the galaxy cluster Abell 611, located over 1000 megaparsecs, or roughly 3.2 billion light years, from Earth. Like all galaxy clusters, the continued exist...

Early on Election Day morning, early risers will have an opportunity to observe the November Beaver Moon undergo a total eclipse.

'Andor' episode 7, 'Announcement,' delves into the aftermath of last week's daring raid on the Aldhani Imperial base.

Amazon VP Dave Limp said the availability of heavy-lift rockets to deploy Project Kuiper satellites is "a constrained resource." The post As clock ticks on Amazon's constellation, buying Starship launches not out of the ...

The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission has experienced its second close encounter with the sun. It is delivering more stunning data, and at higher resolution than ever before.

Researchers working in the Marsquake Service at ETH Zurich have been analyzing the measurements made by the NASA InSight mission's seismometer on one of our neighboring planets.

NASA's Lucy mission took stunning closeup images of the moon after using Earth to gain a gravity-assisted boost for its journey to visit Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

The Orion spacecraft could be on its first trip to the moon on the Artemis I mission in less than a month, but teams at Kennedy Space Center continue to prep the next capsules planned for human missions, the first of whi...

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An eerie new video allows us to hear what NASA's Juno spacecraft experienced as it made a flyby of Jupiter's icy moon Europa last month.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Side-by-side pictures from NASA's 32-year-old Hubble Space Telescope and the brand-new James Webb Space Telescope may draw oohs and ahhs, but they don’t give you a full sense of just how much more ast...

Evidence continues to build that volcanic activity on Mars didn't die out long ago.

Since 2018, when the NASA InSight Mission deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars, seismologists and geophysicists at ETH Zurich have been listening to the seismic pings of more than 1,300 marsquakes. Again ...

Seismologists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a new method to scan the deep interior of planets in our solar system to confirm whether they have a core at the heart of their existence.