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Understanding what lies under the lunar surface could be critical to future exploration efforts. A series of missions have already mapped some parts of the sub-surface of the moon. Still, few have delved deep inside, whe...

How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species. Here's what we can learn from history.

Explore some of the best Perseid meteor shower 2023 photos from around the world. The prolific shower did not disappoint.

Four astronauts are flying to the International Space Station on Aug. 25 from NASA, Japan, Europe and Russia. Here's some info about this new crew.

Physicists like me don't fully understand what makes up "dark matter." Deep beneath South Dakota, we're trying to change that.

In the wake of Hawaii's tragic wildfires, NASA experts discuss our planet's critically rising temperatures.

The Blue Moon of August 2023 rises on Aug. 30, offering skywatchers a second chance to catch a supermoon alongside Saturn in the night sky.

Intelsat said Aug. 14 it is due for a $3.7 billion windfall late this year after becoming the latest satellite operator to clear C-band spectrum ahead of schedule for terrestrial 5G telcos in the United States. The post ...

While Jupiter has the famous Great Red Spot cyclonic storm, the other giant planets have less turbulent-looking surfaces. But they do have mighty storms all their own. According to a new study, mega-storms on Saturn can ...

Companies that can contribute innovations in threat identification, space awareness, on-orbit mobility and other areas related to space protection are being urged to participate in the next Hyperspace Challenge scheduled...

Who let the dog out? Watch as celebrities hunt down a missing robot dog on a simulated Red Planet in Fox's reality competition series "Stars on Mars."

NASA has selected Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California, to provide the launch service for the agency's PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission, which aims to give researchers a more...

The hunt for alien life and its radio signals from beyond our Solar System is still coming up dry. But, it’s not for lack of looking for possible advanced civilizations. A recent search led by Jean-Luc Margot of UCLA�...

A century-old mystery of how galaxies shift shapes has been solved by considering "survival of the fittest" collisions between cosmic titans also revealing the Milky Way was not always a spiral.

Astrophysicists can use measurements of the cosmic microwave background, radiation formed 380,000 years after the Big Bang, to understand what the universe was like in its infancy. And by observing light emitted from gal...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers racing to find some of the earliest galaxies ever glimpsed have now confirmed that a galaxy first detected last summer is in fact among the earliest ever found. The f...

A few years ago, there was a panic about lithium-ion batteries that exploded and could do things like take down a jetliner. On a recent trip, an airline asked passengers to turn in any devices with batteries that had bee...

For some 4,000 years, people living on the Dnipro River avoided mixing with other groups, including those that practiced the new technology of farming.

The search for exoplanets--planets that orbit stars located beyond the borders of our solar system--is a hot topic in astrophysics. Of the various types of exoplanets, one is hot in the literal sense: hot Jupiters, a cla...

Radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) are the power plants of the interplanetary spacecraft. Or at least they have been for going on 50 years now. But they have significant drawbacks, the primary one being that t...

Según los investigadores del Instituto Goddard de Estudios Espaciales (GISS, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA, en Nueva York, julio de 2023 fue el mes más caluroso de todos los que se han registrado en el registro...