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An exotic, ultracold state of matter on Earth is helping scientists study the behavior of "fuzzy" dark matter.

If you’re an evil genius supervillain looking to freak out your enemy with a big messy space kablooie, here’s a novel way to do it. Smack a couple of ancient star remnants together right in front of your nemesis. The...

The animations highlight emissions from different human and natural sources, with the main contribution coming from the burning of fossil fuels.

Virgin Galactic plans to conduct its first fully commercial flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane on June 29, carrying three Italians who will conduct more than a dozen experiments. The post Virgin Galactic se...

The first commercial astronaut has placed his archives on display 19 years after he made his first launch into space. The Mike and Sally Melvill collection is now on exhibit by the EAA in Wisconsin.

Japan's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) will include a Phobos exploration rover provided by the French and German space agencies. The post Germany is Building a Tiny Rover That Will Roam the Surface of Phobos appeared fi...

The ancient shark was warm-blooded, a new study found, and used this cold-defying power to range widely across the globe.

An onboard anomaly sent space startup Launcher's Orbital SN3 vehicle into an uncontrollable spin following SpaceX's Transporter-8 launch June 12.

The Orion capsule that will fly NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission recently received an essential piece of mission hardware -- a novel laser-communication module.

Space.com's review of director Wes Anderson's latest feature film, "Asteroid City," a heavily stylized tale of a close encounter during a high school science competition.

The United Kingdom will participate in a U.S. Space Command initiative focused on purchasing commercial space domain awareness data. The post U.K. joins U.S. Space Command's commercial space-tracking cell appeared first ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets using the transit technique, watching how distant stars dim as a planet passes in between us and the star. A small group of stars is lined up so alien astronomers can disc...

The seed funding round, announced June 23, was led by Caruso Ventures. Participants included Lockheed Martin Ventures, Greater Colorado Venture Fund, CORI Innovation Fund and Greenline Ventures. The post Agile raises $13...

A house-size asteroid zoomed past Earth on June 25 at a staggering 2,000 mph and the Virtual Telescope Project was able to image the near-Earth object in real time.

South Korean military authorities have salvaged North Korea's first spy satellite after its failed first launch last month, according to reports.

From 1967 to 1972, the American space agency NASA conducted a series of space missions to the moon. Nearly 400 kilograms of soil samples were transported back to Earth. NGI--The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute is now us...

You've done it. After years of effort and training, sacrifice, and pain, you become an astronaut and have finally set foot on Mars. Time to post your triumph on TikTok for that sweet social media cred. If only you can ge...

A team of international scientists has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to detect a new carbon compound in space for the first time. Known as methyl cation (pronounced cat-eye-on) (CH3+), the molecule is important ...

Our solar system has had a chaotic past. Earth and the other planets are now in stable orbits, but while they were forming they experienced drastic location shifts. Jupiter was likely much closer to the sun than it is no...

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. Scientists...

NASA has confirmed that one scenario for the cost of its Mars Sample Return (MSR) program is far higher than previous estimates, heightening concerns among scientists about its impacts on other missions. The post NASA id...

The tragedy of the Titan submersible might usher in a sea change in the tolerance of unclear hazard mitigation practices in space tourism companies.