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A history of Cosmo the Spacedog in Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise.

WeSpace wants to get in on the ground floor of the lunar economy by providing access to unexplored regions of the moon.

In space, cataclysmic events happen to stars all the time. Some explode as supernovae, some get torn apart by black holes, and some suffer other fates. But when it comes to planets, stars turn the tables. Then it's the s...

SpaceX will launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (May 10), and you can watch the liftoff live.

The Ax-2 mission will test the effect of microgravity in space on the growth of stem cells.

Space station startup Vast has announced plans to launch what it bills as the first commercial space station as soon a 2025, a free-flying module that will be visited by Crew Dragon missions. The post Vast announces plan...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope gazes into the lair of a cosmic leviathan, a monstrous cluster of galaxies located nine billion light-years away in the constellation Draco.

One of the things astronomers would love to see is planets forming around other stars. That would help us understand our own Solar System better. But it all happens behind a veil of obscuring dust. The James Webb Space T...

Space Force officials are fleshing out the details of a future digital infrastructure for training satellite operators and testing the performance of new hardware. The post Space Force to build digital infrastructure to ...

European satellite-as-a-service startup EnduroSat raised $10 million in a Series A investment round. The post EnduroSat raises $10 million appeared first on SpaceNews.

The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop "a new quantum theory of the Big Bang" in 1998. What started out as a doctoral project evolved over some 20 years into an intense collaboratio...

Mars has some of the most impressive volcanoes in the solar system. ESA's Mars Express has now imaged the pitted, fissured flank of the planet's second-tallest: Ascraeus Mons.

Fossilized dinosaur eggs with preserved dinosaur embryos are some of the most rare and valuable specimens for paleontologists.

A team of Princeton scientists have shown how a Direct Fusion Drive could greatly enhance the Dragonfly's exploration efforts on Titan. The post What if Titan Dragonfly had a Fusion Engine? appeared first on Universe Tod...

To better understand observations of the most distant galaxies, an international team of astronomers has built a sample of local galaxies which can be studied in much higher detail. In a newly published study they show h...

Vacations can be quite enjoyable. Visiting historic cities, lounging in the sun on a tropical beach, or snuggling up at a cozy mountain resort. But while the destinations are great, traveling itself can be a chore. Crowd...

California-based startup Vast Space plans to launch its Haven-1 space station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than August 2025.

Magnets are a handy tool for finding meteorites, but they can also erase vital clues about the early solar system. The post Meteorites Store a Magnetic Memory of the Early Solar System appeared first on Universe Today.

Astronomers are watching a shadow sweep across the face of a vast disc of planet-birthing gas and dust surrounding the star TW Hydrae.

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME) are two of the most energetic processes in the solar system, showering the Earth's magnetic field with billions of tons of highly energetic plasma gas, potentially disrupting...

For more than a decade, astronomers have been trying to get a closer look at GJ 1214b, an exoplanet 40 light-years away from Earth. Their biggest obstacle is a thick layer of haze that blankets the planet, shielding it f...

For some time now, alarms have been sounding in the United States military over activities of Chinese and Russian spacecraft in orbit that are viewed as potentially threatening. U.S. military […] The post On National S...