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Earth's ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped the seabed, and ancient sediments beneath, we discovered what looks like an asteroid impact crater.

We recently examined how and why Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, could answer the longstanding question: Are we alone? With its interior ocean and geysers of water ice that shoot out tens of kilometers into space that alle...

The European Space Agency is requesting several hundred million euros at its upcoming ministerial council meeting for new satellite navigation technologies from low Earth orbit to the moon. The post ESA seeks funding for...

The head of a Venus mission delayed at least three years by NASA in response to problems with another mission says she will attempt to shorten that delay. The post Delayed NASA Venus mission looks for a reprieve appeared...

An uncharted region of space known as the "zone of avoidance" lurks behind the Milky Way's center - and astronomers just found an enormous, multi-galaxy structure there.

As multiple nations plot out their moon exploration strategies, how best to survive the lunar night gives space engineers the cold sweats.

Astrophysicists tested a potential approach to determining the state of the matter inside a neutron star, a tricky feat.

The Kármán line is the official boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space. But defining such a boundary can be tricky.