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New research suggests that Hycean exoplanets would suffer from a catastrophic runaway greenhouse effect, causing their oceans to boil away.

The Chinese satellite internet startup Galaxy Space is planning to provide broadband connectivity to assist the nation's hypersonic vehicle program.

Saturn's rings are disappearing, and we don't know how much longer they will be around. The James Webb Space Telescope may be able to help pin down an answer.

LeoStella, a manufacturer of small satellites, is pursuing U.S. defense sales amid a slowdown in production at its factory in Washington state near Seattle. The post Satellite manufacturer LeoStella focused on defense ma...

Europe's largest space companies have banded together to bid for a role in the European Union's proposed multi-orbit connectivity constellation. The post European space giants join forces for IRIS² appeared first on Spa...

Airbus just shard its design for the Airbus LOOP, a Multi-Purpose Orbital Module that could be used in future space stations and long-duration spacecraft. The post Airbus Designs a Space Station With Artificial Gravity a...

Destined for Jupiter's icy moon Europa, the Europa Clipper spacecraft--the largest NASA has ever flown on an interplanetary mission--is being readied to launch in October 2024. Between now and then, thousands of hours of...

Stunning videos and images shared across social media captured the exact moment that lightning struck the launch pad as a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket sat awaiting liftoff on Thursday, April 27.

SpaceX should be ready to launch its giant Starship vehicle again just six to eight weeks from now, Elon Musk said, though securing the necessary approvals may take a bit longer.

An instrument called ShadowCam is giving NASA's planned Artemis missions to the moon some advanced views of a landing site. It's mounted to the Danuri Korea Pathfinder Lunar orbiter sent to the moon last year. Lately, th...

Before "The Guardians of the Galaxy" launch into theaters, Rocket and Cosmo are making a pitstop at the International Space Station to help engage students in 3D printing.

'Star Wars' Day started a bit early on Fortnite. The battle royale game lets you play as Anakin Skywalker or Padmé Amidala for most of May, with some special Jedi trainers.

Aliens on nearby stars could detect Earth through radio signals leaked from the planet, new research suggests.

Perseverance, a NASA rover, is collecting rocks on the surface of Mars, more than 200 million kilometers away. Though they could eventually become the most valuable rocks on Earth, the rover has limited space for these s...

African nations have the potential to become leading competitors in the space industry due to the continent's rapidly expanding space industry, the amount of institutional knowledge already available, and its large youth...

During observations of the merging galaxy cluster PSZ2 G277.93+12.34 with the MeerKAT radio telescope, an international team of astronomers have serendipitously detected a double radio relic and an odd radio circle. The ...

A new NASA animation highlights the "super" in supermassive black holes. These monsters lurk in the centers of most big galaxies, including our own Milky Way, and contain between 100,000 and tens of billions of times mor...

The mission is gathering observations with airborne sensors, a research ship, and autonomous instruments like gliders that skim the upper layers of the Pacific Ocean.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3489. Lenticular galaxies aren't quite spiral galaxies or elliptical galaxies. They lie somewhere in between, exhibiting traits of both. Lent...

Mark Hamill instructs Cameron Monaghan in the ways of the Force in a new trailer for "Star Wars Jedi: Survivor."

Fossils reveal an ancient relationship between feather-feeding dermestid beetles and their feathered friends, the theropods.

A viewers guide to Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures coming to Disney+ and Disney Junior on May 4, 2023.