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Wormholes, cosmic tunnels also known as Einstein-Rosen bridges, are a staple of science fiction. Could they allow real-world humans to travel back in time?

Astronaut Frank Rubio aboard the International Space Station collaborated with a small team of robots on Earth to accomplish a complex task--a first test of a new approach to combine human and robotic capabilities for ou...

NASA's Mission Control in Houston had a power outage Tuesday (July 25) and briefly lost contact with the International Space Station. No astronauts were in any danger, officials said.

A team of space scientists from several institutions in The Netherlands, two in the U.S. and one in Sweden, has found evidence of multiple microsecond-length fast radio bursts (FRBs) by analyzing data from the Green Bank...

A bill intended to reform satellite spectrum licensing regulations failed to pass the House July 25 after some members objected to provisions they claimed gave the FCC authority to regulate space safety. The post House r...

NASA finished its first launch simulation for the crewed Artemis 2 moon mission, which is slated to lift off in late 2024. The exercise is just one of many for the moon mission team.

NASA and DARPA have selected Lockheed Martin to develop a spacecraft to demonstrate nuclear propulsion technologies in Earth orbit later this decade. The post NASA and DARPA select Lockheed Martin to develop DRACO nuclea...

The U.S. military is being challenged to counter China's rapid advances in space technology, Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting told the Senate Armed Services Committee July 26. The post Space Command nominee: U.S. has to prepare ...

New research shows that Mars' Olympus Mons may have once been a volcanic island surrounding by ocean. The post Olympus Could Have Been a Giant Volcanic Island in an Ancient Martian Ocean appeared first on Universe Today.

The spinning, solar-powered spacecraft will take another look of the fiery Jovian moon on July 30.

amma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the Universe, briefly outshining all the stars in their galaxy combined. They typically last for just seconds or a few minutes at the most. In 2022, an ultra-long gamma...

Black holes are the most mysterious objects in the universe, with features that sound like they come straight from a sci-fi movie.

Three former insiders who have played a role in dealing with UFOs — or as they’ve now come to be known, unidentified anomalous phenomena — say the U.S. military knows more than what it’s been telling lawmakers ab...

NASA and the US military said Wednesday they had selected defense contractor Lockheed Martin to develop a nuclear powered rocket, with a view to using the technology for missions to Mars.

China's new Long March 10 rocket just completed its sixth hotfire test. The country is hoping to launch astronauts to the moon on the rocket by 2030.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has used its infrared eyes to produce a highly detailed image of two young stars more than 1,000 light-years away.

Paramount Plus offers a surprise look at the upcoming "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" musical "Subspace Rhapsody" episode.

NASA is investing more than $14 million in 19 U.S. colleges and universities to grow their STEM capacity to participate in critical spaceflight research and prepare a new generation of diverse students for careers in the...

Today's small spacecraft pack sensors, guidance and control, and operating electronics into every available space. Printing electronic circuits on the walls and structures of spacecraft could help future missions do more...

Space is a dangerous place. From micro-meteorites and electromagnetic interference to fires in space and extreme heat and cold, we need to develop new materials to enable the next generation of space travel and intergala...

Here we explore how long it takes to get to the moon and the factors that affect the journey to our rocky companion.

The European Space Agency is guiding its Aeolus wind-studying satellite to a destructive atmospheric reentry this week. Here's when and where it's expected to happen.