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Australia will launch its first moon rover as early as 2026, on one of NASA's Artemis missions. And you can help name the rover -- if you're an Australian resident.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission delivered its Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to the lunar surface on August 23rd. Now, as the lunar day ends two weeks later, the rover’s mission may be over. The Indian Space Research ...

Amid its Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon, India's space agency launched another satellite and this one will study the Sun. The spacecraft, called Aditya-L1, is bound for the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange Point, located 1.5 mil...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter flew for the 57th time on Sept. 3, a sortie that pushed the robot's total Red Planet air time over 100 minutes.

The safe landing of the probe is one of the most difficult challenges in Mars exploration, and the Mars supersonic parachute is extremely important for this process. To date, all the successful Mars exploration missions ...

An immense bubble of galaxies, one billion light years wide and located 820 million light-years away, could be fossilized remains of the Big Bang.

When the first astronauts land on Mars, they may have the descendants of a microwave-oven-size device to thank for the air they breathe and the rocket propellant that gets them home. That device, called MOXIE (Mars Oxyge...

Bound for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche mission is targeting Oct. 5 to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA's Psyche mission is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Oct. 5 and begin heading toward its metal-asteroid namesake.

Paramount+ released a new "Star Trek: Lower Decks" Season 4 trailer and official poster ahead of the season premiere on Thursday (Sept. 7).

International regulations on space debris mitigation set a limit on how long a satellite should linger in orbit once its mission is complete--it mustn't be longer than 25 years.

The European Solar Orbiter spacecraft has peered into yet unexplored parts of the sun's atmosphere thanks to a simple hack to its main camera.

Long ago, when climate change inflicted ice and drought on the landscape, early human ranks fell to roughly the population of a small town.

NASA is upgrading the ISS communication system with the first end-to-end laser relay system. The post The Space Station is Getting Gigabit Internet appeared first on Universe Today.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, by far. More than 90% of the atoms in the universe are hydrogen. Ten times the number of helium atoms, and a hundred times more than all other elements combined. It'...

In recent decades, drag-free satellites have been used in high-precision missions, such as testing the general relativity, verifying the geodetic and frame-dragging effects, measuring Earth's gravity field, etc. In space...

We’re rapidly learning that our Solar System, so familiar to us all, does not represent normal. A couple of decades ago, we knew very little about other solar systems. Astronomers had discovered only a handful of exopl...

The new mission statement -- "To secure our nation's interests in, from, and to space" -- was crowdsourced from service members The post Space Force rewrites mission statement appeared first on SpaceNews.

ESA's wind-measuring Aeolus satellite was spotted before its flaming demise over Antarctica.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg's impact on the environmental movement has sparked a call for a similar advocate in the field of space sustainability. While finding another Greta is a tall order, the space sector is seei...

Tiny devices on satellites could soon track small pieces of space debris that are invisible to existing space junk monitoring systems but capable of destroying spacecraft if they collide with it.

A comet called Nishimura discovered just a month ago could be visible to the naked eye this weekend, offering stargazers a once-in-a-437-year chance to observe the celestial visitor.