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In October 2022, an updated ESA astronaut patch celebrated the joining of ESA's newest Associate Member, Slovakia. The new patch adds the Slovakian flag to a design that has evolved over the decades to represent ESA's gr...

A new map of the universe displays for the first time the span of the entire known cosmos with pinpoint accuracy and sweeping beauty.

Several SpaceX employees who were fired after circulating an open letter calling out CEO Elon Musk's behavior have filed a complaint accusing the company of violating labor laws.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has begun exploring an area the science team calls "Yori Pass" near the base of Jezero Crater's ancient river delta. They've been eager to explore the region for several months after spotti...

A few days after officially starting science operations, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope propelled astronomers into a realm of early galaxies, previously hidden beyond the grasp of all other telescopes. Webb ...

NASA's newest space telescope has left scientists seeing distant stars -- and galaxies.

A United Nations report warns of imperiled glaciers at iconic World Heritage sites -- but climate action could save most of them.

Boeing is reorganizing its defense and space business, a sector of the company that last month reported nearly $3 billion in losses in the third quarter. The post Boeing reorganizes defense unit, Kay Sears to lead space ...

Recently, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into a 170 m asteroid Dimorphos at 6.6 km/s, as the first on-orbit demonstration of deflecting an asteroid by kinetic impact. The DART spacecraf...

What’s the most exciting thing about the James Webb Space Telescope? The stunning images? The completion of its torturous path from concept to launch? Or is it because it provides such compelling visual evidence of obj...

About a decade ago, the prospect of "asteroid mining" saw a massive surge in interest. This was due largely to the rise of the commercial space sector and the belief that harvesting resources from space would soon become...

In France, the Study and Information Group on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (GEIPAN), has been investigating unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs)--more commonly known as UFOs--for the past 45 years. Attached to the Na...

NASA has just launched its first rocket in the Artemis program, which will, among other things, take scientific experiments to produce metal on the moon.

China launched its 53rd rocket of 2022 on Wednesday (Nov. 16), bringing it three launches shy of tying the record 56 liftoffs the country set last year.

A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a molecular cloud of gas and dust that harbors a compact object that will soon become an infant star.

Micrometeoroid strikes are an unavoidable part of operating a spacecraft. But after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was hit with a larger than expected piece of space dust earlier this year, engineers are making ch...

European aerospace giant Airbus demonstrated how solar power could be beamed from space in a new experiment.

You can see what's coming next in space gaming and beyond in the PC Gaming Show: 2023 Preview today (Nov. 17).

The November Leonid meteors may produce a surprise outburst this weekend. The post Are We in for a Leonid Outburst Friday Night? appeared first on Universe Today.

Despite having radically different atmospheres, Mars and Earth seem to have similar cloud patterns, hinting that the features may form in much the same way.

Standing on a rock glacier is what Tyler Meng imagines it would be like to stand on the surface of Mars. The glacier's barren and wrinkled landscape looks like Silly Putty that's drooped under gravity's pull, offering fe...

A team of researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Center for Star and Planet Formation, working with colleagues from Université de Paris, ETH Zürich and the University of Bern, has found evidence suggesting that ...