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SpaceX will launch its next cargo mission to the International Space Station next Tuesday (March 14), if all goes according to plan.

NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) will announce during an event at 11 a.m. EDT (10 a.m. CDT) on Monday, April 3, from NASA Johnson Space Center's Ellington Field in Houston, the four astronauts who will venture around...

In-space transportation company Momentus is gearing up for a key test of one orbital transfer vehicle as it ships another for launch next month. The post Momentus preparing for Vigoride thruster test as it ships next veh...

The origins of Earth’s water is a complicated mystery that scientists have been untangling for decades. Life is impossible without water, so the origin of Earth’s life-giving water is a foundational question. As the ...

Seen from space, regions of Mars around the south pole have a bizarre, pitted “Swiss cheese” appearance. These formations come from alternating massive deposits of CO2 ice and water ice, similar to different layers o...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter recently took to the skies for its 45th flight, traveling nearly one-third of a mile (0.5 kilometers) -- and photographing a Red Planet sunset in the process.

The sky is in transition throughout March as we watch the glorious wintertime stars and bright constellations give way to the somewhat dimmer stars of spring.

The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The tenuous disk of the galaxy is threaded through with pink wisps of star ...

The fastest stars in the Milky Way hurtle along at over a thousand kilometers per second. Ph.D. candidate Fraser Evans has conducted research into these elusive hypervelocity stars and discovered that they have a lot to ...

NASA has selected four teams of university faculty and students to solve key challenges facing the future of air travel as part of the agency's University Leadership Initiative.

Researchers led by Wu Tao from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Jiang Chen from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research reanalyzed properties of extremely eccentric planetary sys...

As a follow-up to its biennial report demonstrating the economic impact of NASA nationwide, the agency released new state-specific information on Monday. Each of the 51 fact sheets, which are the first drafted by the age...

Now we're finally getting to see Mandalore in live-action in The Mandalorian season 3, here's everything you should know about the Mandalorian home planet.

Today Venus has a dry, oxygen-poor atmosphere. But recent studies have proposed that the early planet may have had liquid water and reflective clouds that could have sustained habitable conditions. Researchers at the Uni...

One of the last times we did an article about a technology that could remove lunar dust from clothing, we opened it with a famous meme line from Star Wars. That also means we should probably avoid subjecting everyone to ...

La NASA y la Agencia Espacial Canadiense (CSA, por sus siglas en inglés) anunciarán los cuatro astronautas que se aventurarán a los alrededores de la Luna. El anuncio se dará durante un acto que se celebrará a las 1...

Forms of oxygen created by living organisms can be found in space around our planet, a new study has revealed, hinting at a potential new method for tracing life on exoplanets.

RS21's artificial intelligence-based software called Space Prognostic AI Custodian Ecosystem, or SPAICE, is aimed at improving satellite monitoring. The post RS21 earns patent for AI-based monitoring appeared first on Sp...

Europe's Galileo is the world's most precise satellite navigation system, providing metre-level accuracy and very precise timing to itsfour billion users. An essential ingredient to ensure this stays the case are the ato...

An impressive 70 mocktail recipes representing a wide range of flavours of ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission were submitted to the Agency's #SpaceJuice competition in January.

Bethesda Softworks announces the official release date for their long-delayed "Starfield" RPG. It launches on Sept. 6.

A comet recently discovered zooming through our solar system has the potential to be quite bright when it arrives late in 2024, but comets have let us down before.