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The exploration community is still reeling from the announcement that the submersible Titan broke apart, resulting in the death of its five passengers.

Every large galaxy in the nearby universe contains a supermassive black hole at its core. The mass of those black holes seems to have a relationship to the mass of the host galaxies themselves. But estimating the masses ...

It’s a strange, eerie-looking place. Carbon dioxide gas appears... and disappears in cycles and bursts throughout the year. It’s how our planet would look if we could detect carbon dioxide (CO2) with our eyes. Scient...

The Parker Solar Probe conducted its 16th perihelion pass on Thursday morning (June 22), cruising through the sun's superhot outer atmosphere, called the corona.

More spacecraft is due to fly to Mars and will send their data home. Human explorers will want to access research documents and communicate the findings to Earth. This will require extending Earth's internet to Mars. A n...

SpaceX is changing the approach for separating the two stages of its Starship vehicle to increase payload performance before its next test flight, Elon Musk said June 24. The post SpaceX changing Starship stage separatio...

The early Solar System was a turbulent and chaotic place with icy material hurled far from the Sun, becoming the Oort Cloud. Larger objects and planets were probably hurled into the Oort Cloud too, and some might have be...

The inaugural launch of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket faces new delays after the company said it needs to make "minor reinforcements" to part of the Centaur upper stage. The post First Vulcan launch furt...

Florida's role in space exploration will be recognized by a landmark now that lawmakers have given the "go" for the project. The Florida Space Exploration Monument will stand in Tallahassee.

The atmospheric temperature spike, which was caused by successive geomagnetic storms, suggests the "solar maximum" is fast approaching.

Spinosaurus was one of the biggest predators of its time, but was it big enough to take down the Tyrannosaurus rex?

There are very special cases, when the sky is very clear and exceptionally transparent, that a green flash can be glimpsed just as the very topmost part of the sun is rising or setting.

Elon Musk's company SpaceX is offering to sell insider shares at a price that lifts its valuation to around $150 billion, according to a Bloomberg News report Friday.