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NASA's Perseverance rover mission provided a blueish pre-sunrise gift above Jezero Crater on March 18, 2022, aka Sol 738, or the 738th Martian day of the mission, with "sol" being the official timekeeping method for Mars...

The latest image release from the James Webb Space Telescope shows another beautiful field filled with galaxies and gravitational lenses The post This JWST Image Shows Gravitational Lensing at its Finest appeared first o...

Three Venus missions in the Decade of Venus were planned to work in sync with each other. Scientists worry that delays to one are likely going to affect others.

As the smallest branch of the U.S. military with a high demand for technical expertise, the Space Force has embraced unconventional ways to attract and retain people in key career fields. The post Space Force embraces un...

A new map created with decades-old radar imagery from NASA’s 1990's Magellan mission shows the locations of a whopping 85,000 volcanoes on Venus. The detailed map shows where the volcanoes are, how they're clustered, a...

China just tested a Sterling thermoelectric converter aboard their space station, a technology that could be the future of space exploration. The post China Tests a Stirling Engine in Orbit appeared first on Universe Tod...

Today is a celebration of the "Star Trek" media franchise, but First Contact Day is much more than that.

Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the Red Planet that was made at Caltech using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Preparing the Juice mission to Jupiter has involved testing for all kinds of contingencies, down to the smallest of scales. This microscopic view shows surface damage to a tiny silver interconnector after being exposed t...

Astronomers have discovered precursors for life and other complex molecules in a region of star and planet formation close to the solar system, the Perseus Molecular Cloud.

From dinosaur extinction to the age of the Earth, here are five things science was initially wrong about.

Two battling quasars powered by supermassive black holes are lighting the center of merging galaxies seen during "cosmic noon" in the early universe.

Dawn Aerospace completed its first series of rocket-powered flights last week of the Mk-II Aurora spaceplane. The post Dawn flies rocket-powered spaceplane appeared first on SpaceNews.

Watch an exclusive clip from the new episode of SyFy's "The Ark," titled "Hoping for Forever."

The Obi-Wan Kenobi Force FX Elite Lightsaber is a reminder of how good The Black Series is.

Now that the astronauts for NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission have been chosen, the serious launch training can begin.

Astronomers have made a rare discovery in the early universe involving two actively feeding supermassive black holes--or quasars--just 10,000 light-years apart from each other, that are on the verge of a colossal collisi...

April's full moon rises tonight (April 5), and peaks in the early hours of Thursday morning. Yet despite its name, April's Pink Moon never actually takes on a rosy hue.

India has for the first time autonomously landed its reusable space plane prototype, marking a major milestone in the country's pursuit of low-cost access to space.

By observing the night sky, medieval monks unwittingly recorded some of history's largest volcanic eruptions. An international team of researchers, led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), drew on readings of 12th and 13...

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Save $320 on the Canon EOS 6D Mark II and a 24-105mm f/4L II lens: A relic still contending with the mirrorless generation.