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With the removal of the telephoto camera in favor of just the excellent Four Thirds camera, the DJI Mavic 3 Classic is the most affordable model available in the premium Mavic 3 series.

A recently completed U.S. space strategy stresses the need to deploy resilient constellations that can operate under attack, and supports norms for responsible behavior in space The post U.S. national security space stra...

Late on the Earth night of May 4, or Sol 1222 on Mars, the seismometer aboard NASA's InSight Mars Lander detected a quake on the Red Planet, with reverberations lasting many hours. The marsquake was at least five times a...

After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io.

The Zhuque-2 rocket developed by Chinese private space launch provider Landspace failed to reach orbit during its maiden voyage on Wednesday (Dec. 14), losing 14 satellites in the process.

The moon's pock-marked surface tells the story of its history. It's marked by over 9,000 impact craters, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU.) The largest ones are called impact basins, not craters. No...

Two cosmonauts will work outside the International Space Station for about seven hours on Wednesday night (Dec. 14), and you can watch the action live.

Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm Games released a new full trailer for the upcoming game "Star Wars Jedi: Survivor" full of epic lightsaber battles and stormtrooper-bashing Force powers.

Before the sun rises on Thursday, a rocket carrying the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite will blast off from Vandenberg Space Force Base north of Santa Barbara.

20th Century Studios reveals their latest look at "Avatar: The Way of Water."

Europe has launched a new high-tech weather satellite that will help meteorologists keep tabs on extreme weather events amid progressing climate change.

For years, we've seen images from various Mars rovers and landers of dust devils churning across the dusty landscape of the Red Planet. But now, thanks to a microphone on the Perseverance rover and a whirling dust storm ...

When NASA scientists were planning the Mars Perseverance mission, they decided to try something new: Instead of just sending a rover, they'd also send up a small helicopter.

The large-scale structure of the universe is dominated by vast empty regions known as cosmic voids. These voids appear as holes hundreds of millions of light years across in the distribution of galaxies. However, new res...

One of the most spectacular showers of the year,, the Geminid meteor shower, peaked tonight and avid skywatchers all over the world were able to capture the spectacle.

The Oort Cloud is a collection of icy objects in the furthest reaches of the Solar System. It contains the most distant objects in the Solar System, and instead of orbiting on a plane like the planets or forming a ring l...

Chinese launch company Landspace suffered failure Wednesday in what was the world's first attempt to achieve orbit with a methane-fueled rocket. The post Historic first launch of Chinese private methane-fueled rocket end...

NASA and the French space agency's latest satellite mission will look at how climate change is affecting water on Earth, to help communities around the world.

Astronomers have learned a planetary nebula had a much more complex origin than originally thought. The post The Formation of the Southern Ring Nebula was Messier Than the Death of a Single Star appeared first on Univers...

In just under a year, on Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx sample collector -- a basket full of asteroid dust and rocks -- will return to Earth's surface.

Among the mountainous dunes and small, undulating ripples of Mars' desert-like surface are sand structures, intermediate in size, that are not quite like anything on Earth.

Although models accurately predicted the evolution of the Arctic storm, scientists were surprised to see just how much sea ice thickness decreased in the storm's aftermath.