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The Epiphany Transporter is the latest 'flying car' effort to be unveiled, but this one has NASA engineering at its back.

Affordable and easy to use, the Celestron EclipSmart 10x25mm roof solar binoculars are a step up from solar eclipse glasses.

In case you missed it, the weather’s been hot. From warmer-than-usual temperatures in northern climes to melting ice sheets in the polar regions, July 2023 was a record-breaking month. That’s not just some random per...

SpaceX has installed a new heat shield and 'vented interstage' on its latest Starship Super Heavy booster, which is being prepped for flight in the near future.

NASA planetary scientist and "Foundation" space advisor Kevin Hand tells Space.com how the series stays rooted in as much actual science and astrophysics as possible.

In the span of a human lifetime, much of the Universe seems unchanging. But that’s an illusion; things are always changing, and that fact can make galaxies and the clusters they reside in very unruly places due to merg...

By modeling the neutrinos from a supernova as an exotic kind of fluid moving at nearly the speed of light, researchers are searching for signs of how neutrinos can interact with each other.

Stars begin as giant clouds of gas and dust that pull together through mutual gravity into a dense protostar. At some point, the intense pressure and temperature cause fusion in the star's core, where lighter elements, l...

NASA astronaut Christina Koch's assignment to fly around the moon has already given launch to a tasty treat. Good Dough, a bakery in Galveston, Texas, has created the 'Koch it to the Moon' kolache.

The Jovian system has long attracted the interest of human exploration. However, Jupiter and its four Galilean moons form a unique and complex multi-body dynamical environment that greatly challenges trajectory design an...

Satellites watched as an innocent-looking tropical depression exploded into the powerful Hurricane Hilary in just two days off the Pacific Coast of Central America.

It is a scientific certainty that Mars was once a much different place, with a denser atmosphere, warmer temperatures, and where water once flowed. Evidence of this past is preserved in countless surface features, rangin...

French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible.

India's Chandrayaan-3 probe has captured more amazing imagery of the moon ahead of its historic touchdown try, which is just a few days away.

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance has arrived at Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A ahead of the Aug. 25 launch of the Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has taken to the skies yet again, covering 866 feet (264 meters) of ground on its 55th Red Planet flight.

Companies in the U.S. space industry are being increasingly targeted by foreign intelligence operations, U.S. intelligence agencies warn. The post U.S. government warns of foreign intelligence threats to the space indust...

Week in images: 14-18 August 2023 Discover our week through the lens

Methane emissions from tropical wetlands have been soaring since 2006 and accelerating at the same breakneck speed as they have when Earth's climate flipped from a glacial to an interglacial period.

The mobile launch platform that supports NASA's Space Launch System rocket was rolled to the pad for testing ahead of next year's crewed Artemis 2 mission to the moon.

Poland has become the second European Space Agency member state to reach an agreement to fly an astronaut on a private mission to the International Space Station. The post Poland signs agreement to fly astronaut on Axiom...

The moon will make a close approach to Mars in the evening on Friday, Aug. 18 as the two celestial bodies enjoy the sunset together.