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All About Space magazine issue 137 explores glitches in the universe and how the laws of physics may have been reversed. Take at look at the latest issue here.

When it comes to “on the ground” exploration of Mars, rovers make pretty good advance scouts. From Pathfinder to Perseverance, we’ve watched as these semi-autonomous robots do what human explorers want to do in the...

Meteorites that fall to Earth are ancient time capsules, and scientists who merged two imaging techniques may be able to tell us if and how they brought water to Earth.

NASA has awarded the Architect-Engineer Services Contract for Environmental Compliance and Restoration Services to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. of Dallas, to provide environmental compliance, monitoring, and remediation...

It's been a cloudy season for Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

Constraints are critical in any scientific enterprise. If a hypothesis predicts that there should be an observable phenomenon, and there isn’t any trace of it, that’s a pretty clear indication that the hypothesis is ...

SpaceX conducted another static fire test with its BN7 prototype, this time firing up eleven of its Raptor 2 engines. The post SpaceX’s Super Heavy Fires 11 of its Engines in a Long-Duration Test appeared first on Univ...

China currently has six astronauts in orbit for the first time as the country carries out a space station crew handover.

There are 8 billion of us now. The UN says when the population peaks around the year 2100, there'll be 11 billion human souls. Our population growth is colliding with the natural world on a greater scale than ever, and w...

When it comes to "on the ground" exploration of Mars, rovers make pretty good advance scouts. From Pathfinder to Perseverance, we've watched as these semi-autonomous robots do what human explorers want to do in the futur...

The night sky is a shared wilderness. On a dark night, away from the city lights, you can see the stars in the same way as your ancestors did centuries ago. You can see the Milky Way and the constellations associated wit...

NASA's bold mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon is facing tight schedules getting instruments installed and ready for the planned 2024 launch.

When it comes to making real-time decisions about unfamiliar data--say, choosing a path to hike up a mountain you've never scaled before--existing artificial intelligence and machine learning tech doesn't come close to m...

You can now take an aerospace relic under your "wing" and help give it the care it needs. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center Education Foundation has launched an "Adopt an Artifact" program.

A new video shows how a team of NASA and European Space Agency spacecraft plan to relay Martian rock samples to Earth.

A Martian megatsunami may have been caused by an asteroid collision similar to the Chicxulub impact--which contributed to the mass extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs on Earth 66 million years ago--in a shallow ocean r...

Cognitive Space, a startup based in Houston, Texas, announced Dec. 1 that retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Aaron Prupas has joined the company as a strategic advisor. The post Cognitive Space hires retired general as str...

On the first day of December the moon will appear in conjunction with Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet.

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are fascinating cosmic bodies that have been widely investigated by astrophysicists worldwide. As suggested by their name, these are black holes believed to have appeared in the universe's e...

AST SpaceMobile said Nov. 30 it could raise more than $86 million from selling a chunk of shares as the company looks to accelerate its direct-to-smartphone constellation plans. The post AST SpaceMobile plots $86 million...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a pair of U.S. spacewalks in December to install rollout solar arrays to increase electrical power in support of station operations and scientific research.

A former NASA engineer and now-YouTuber has created a viral sensation with a video documenting efforts to send an egg to near space to test if it cracks up on landing.