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The results from the first three years of Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab provide further evidence for the existence of physics beyond the Standard Model. The post New Muon g-2 Result Improves the Measurement by a Factor...

Megastorms that rage across Saturn and last for centuries, shaking up the gas giant's deep atmosphere and driving ammonia rains that enrich lower layers.

What do you feel when you see the aurora?

Astronomers have discovered a failed star that can't sustain nuclear fusion in its core, but is 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the sun.

The National Reconnaissance Office is soliciting proposals from commercial remote-sensing companies that use optical imaging satellites. The post NRO to select providers of new forms of optical satellite imagery appeared...

Interstellar Technologies Inc. says it is now aiming to launch its Zero Rocket in 2025, with static fire tests due later this year as part of its test program.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a distant galaxy cloaked in a ghostly haze some 44 million light-years from Earth in the Pavo, or "peacock" constellation.

NASA's Europa Clipper is designed to seek out conditions suitable for life on an ice-covered moon of Jupiter. On Aug. 14, the spacecraft received a piece of hardware central to that quest: the massive dish-shaped high-ga...

A recently released video gives us an astronaut's-eye view of Virgin Galactic's second-ever commercial spaceflight, which the company aced last week.

Ya está abierto el proceso de acreditación de los medios de comunicación para el próximo lanzamiento de la nave espacial Psyche de la NASA en su misión a un asteroide único y rico en metales que orbita alrededor de...

"It's why we never throw anything away - you don't know what secrets are being stored in the data beamed down from space."

Media accreditation is now open for the upcoming launch of NASA's Psyche spacecraft, for a mission to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

A geosynchronous surveillance satellite operated by the U.S. Space Force reached the end of its lifespan and was recently deorbited. The post U.S. deorbits GSSAP surveillance satellite, two new ones in the works appeared...

NASA astronaut Drew Feustel just joined a Canadian space mining company to map out strategy. It's the richest time we've seen in decades for space projects, he says.

Plenty of areas in the solar system are interesting for scientific purposes but hard to access by traditional rovers. Some of the most prominent are the caves and cliffs of Mars – where exposed strata could hold clues ...

Canada's Jeremy Hansen is gearing up for his first spaceflight -- the Artemis 2 moon mission. Here's what he's learning from his three veteran NASA crewmates.

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...

On one hand, this so-called race has no discernable prize -- but on the other, it could set the stage for a rich future of lunar exploration.

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency sent the Hayabusa2 spacecraft to 162173 Ryugu in 2019, an asteroid in orbit near Earth that is comprised of rocky fragments originating from a larger parent body. Multiple rovers brou...

A team of astrophysicists from the University of Bordeaux and Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève is suggesting that some exoplanets may not have been too hot during their formative years to harbor life...

A newly-described 235-million-year old fossil tells us more about the ancient ancestor to dinosaurs and pterosaurs.

Space.com spoke with veteran Hollywood creature designer Neville Page on his legacy designing "Star Trek" aliens and Titan's new tribute book to his work.