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A team from Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has designed something that goes way beyond your typical rover, and may be the next step in robotic planetary exploration.

Evidence in a court room often requires an expert to explain it - Expert astronomers usually are not what one pictures in court, but that is exactly what I do.

Did Einstein believe time is an illusion? Perhaps his theory of special relativity may provide a clue.

Europe, temporarily lacking its own access to space, plans to rely more on SpaceX to launch key science and navigation spacecraft while working to restore its launch capabilities. The post Europe leans on SpaceX to bridg...

Satellite TV broadcaster Dish Network is rumored to be considering recombining with internet-focused sister company EchoStar to strengthen its financial resources. The post Merger rumors swirl around Dish and EchoStar ap...

As the European Space Agency continues to develop proposals for human space exploration efforts, more European countries are showing an interest in launching astronauts. The post Interest grows for human spaceflight in E...

Apple TV+ has released a new extended trailer for the second season of its sci-fi epic "Foundation" that premieres globally on July 14, 2023.

The Biden administration has launched a commercial space regulation initiative under the name of "mission authorization," which is laying the groundwork for a potentially debilitating web of unnecessary regulation on the...

A few weeks ago, a team of scientists from Caltech announced that they had successfully transmitted energy from an orbiting satellite down to Earth. It wasn’t a lot of energy, but it showed that it was possible. Eventu...

Astronauts ride a pillar fire off the planet, so naturally, they encounter some fear along the way. But astronauts confront a host of other stressors in space, too: isolation, sensory deprivation, sleep disruption, press...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named an asteroid after Pedro Machado, astrophysicist at Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA), at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Portugal)...

More evidence of the potentially life-indicating molecule phosphine has been discovered in Venus' atmosphere, opening the next chapter in a heated debate.

New photos of NASA's X-59 supersonic plane show the aircraft parked on the flight line as it prepares for a series of ground and initial flight tests.

What is it like to work on the fundamental questions about the universe? On July 1, the Euclid satellite launched successfully. This mission from the European Space Agency will take images of the sky to create the most d...

NASA is commemorating the first year of science and discoveries from the agency's James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful, and most complex space telescope ever built. To celebrate the anniversary, multipl...

The spiral galaxy UGC 11860 seems to float serenely against a field of background galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. UGC 11860 lies around 184 million light-years away in the constellation P...

The capsule looked like something from a 1960s sci-fi flick. Resting on the ground, slightly tilted, its white heat shield flaked off in places, it looked how one would expect after speeding in from outer space and strea...

Why the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, is so hot has been a mystery for decades, but machine-learning algorithms are now on the case.

You've heard that satellite constellations like Starlink are a problem for astronomers and their telescopes. Because the satellites are communicating with radio waves, they're also an issue for radio astronomers. A new s...

Apple TV+ releases new details on the second season of "Invasion," a sci-fi thriller about what happens when an alien invasion threatens humankind's existence.

It's said nature abhors a vacuum. The same is true of leadership. In the global space community, a government body is almost always a leading component of a nation's growing […] The post For the People: The motivations...

Dr. Varsha Ramachandran from the Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University (ZAH) and her colleagues uncovered the first "stripped" star of intermediate-mass. This discovery marks a missing link in our picture of stel...