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Rocket Lab just launched a pair of storm-hunting cubesats toward orbit, the first of two missions it will fly for NASA's TROPICS constellation.

New research aims to shed light on the puzzling winds on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, whose mysterious weather patterns have puzzled astronomers for decades.

The Chinese launch startup Galactic Energy is making moves toward launching Pallas 1, its small Falcon 9-like rocket.

Intelligent aliens looking for life in the universe might be able to find Earth using our radio signals, a new SETI study suggests.

NASA launched two small satellites designed to track tropical cyclones hour by hour from a base in New Zealand on Monday, in a project that could improve weather predictions on devastating storms.

Before going into hibernation, China's Zhurong rover found evidence that water recently existed in small patches on Mars (and might still!) The post China's Mars Rover Finds Recent Evidence of Water Near the Equator appe...

The sun fired a huge cloud of plasma directly at Earth on Sunday evening (May 7), an outburst that could boost auroras in the next day or so.

New research has revealed the heart of the moon as never seen before, demonstrating that it has a solid core that is composed of iron like Earth.

SpaceNews spoke with Jake Sauer, Ball Aerospace's new vice president and chief technologist, to learn how the company will focus its investments. The post Ball Aerospace zeroes in on future technologies appeared first on...

Daniel Cavender has worked extensively with ASCENT, the non-toxic propellant developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The post Propelling ASCENT into commercial markets appeared first on SpaceNews.

A new genetic analysis found that Neanderthal noses survived natural selection by proving useful in Ice Age Europe.

A team from the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) has revealed a new picture of the Milky Way's morphology. The post What Does the Milky Way Look Like? appeared first on Universe Today.

The first asteroid belt ever found outside the solar system is more complex than expected, new observations by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.

As space advocates, we are simply terrible at communicating our perspective. Our collective dysphasia makes it harder for space companies to raise money and dramatically more difficult to sustain support in Washington. T...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and below the Milky Way galaxy's center.

The peak of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower unfortunately coincided with a bright full moon, but there is still time to catch a few stragglers was we approach the new moon on May 19.

The James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to see deeper into cosmic history than ever before, but it doesn't disprove the big bang. The post JWST Fails to Disprove the Big Bang appeared first on Universe Tod...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid satellite completed the first part of its long journey into space on May 1, 2023, when it arrived in Florida on a boat from Italy. It is scheduled to lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light. But to t...

China's mysterious space plane landed on Monday (May 8), bringing its second orbital mission to an end after 276 days.

A team of researchers with the ESA propose an upgrade for the LISA mission (LISAMax), which could revolutionize gravitational wave astronomy! The post LISA Will Be a Remarkable Gravitational-Wave Observatory. But There�...

A star like our Sun only shines the way it does because of its intrinsic balance. Stars are massive, and the inward gravitational pressure from all that mass acts to contain the outward thermal pressure from all the fusi...