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Venus has more volcanoes than any other planet in the solar system, and researchers may now know what is powering them.

The birth secrets of gas giant planets like Jupiter could be revealed by a stunning cosmic phoenix comprised of clumps of gas gathering around a young star.

A Spire Global-led group has won European Space Agency funds to develop a satellite to demonstrate a civil aviation tracking constellation that would not rely on GPS, or any other global navigation satellite system vulne...

Imagine a volcanic island about the size of France and over 20,000 meters high. Such a landscape may once have existed on the planet Mars.

A NASA power outage disrupted communication between Mission Control and the International Space Station on Tuesday.

Kamilla Cziráki, a geophysics student at the Faculty of Science of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), has taken a new approach to researching the navigation systems that can be used on the surface of the moon to plan f...

SpaceX just loaded propellant into two of its Starship Super Heavy booster prototypes as part of a prelaunch test campaign.

Wildfires have been burning across several Greek islands since July 17, causing catastrophic damage and a mass evacuation. New satellite images capture the impact of the fires from space.

SpaceX has shared a photo featuring the business end of the Falcon Heavy rocket set to launch a massive satellite for Maxar Technologies later this week.

Tapping into cosmic X-rays, NASA's IXPE satellite has identified a supermassive black hole blasting its energetic jets straight toward Earth. Don't worry, though, this blazar is tucked away deep in space.

The U.S. Space Force announced July 24 it selected 16 companies that will compete for low Earth orbit satellite services contracts. The post Space Force selects vendors for low Earth orbit satellite services appeared fir...

SpaceX and NASA have pushed the planned liftoff of the Crew-7 astronaut mission back by two days to Aug. 17, to get its launch pad reconfigured after a Falcon Heavy liftoff.

Maxar's largest communications satellite ever is being launched soon by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Teams preparing Ariane 6 for its inaugural flight successfully completed for the first time a launcher preparation and countdown sequence, on 18 July at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

The world is unprepared for the next big storm from outer space, an overwhelming majority of scientists agree.

They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. But Riddick is still awake and on his way to Furya and we can't wait for his return.

Determining the age of a star is surprisingly tricky and has wide error bars. It's only inside star clusters that you get a chance to accurately measure a star's age since they all had the exact origin and age. But a new...

NASA and commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman are targeting 8:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 1, for the launch of the company's 19th resupply mission to the International Space Station from the agency's Wallops Flight ...

Artemis 2's moon crew is meeting a new generation of training. New tech, diversity and instructors form a team aiming to safely send four astronauts around the moon.

Companies working on nuclear and solar power systems for the moon are among the winners of NASA awards to advance their technologies for future use by NASA and commercial customers. The post NASA selects companies to adv...

The Space Force is moving forward with plans to establish a commercial space reserve to ensure the U.S. military has access to commercial satellite services during conflicts. The post Space Force to further define detail...

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