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If you can get your hands on a telescope, there are few sights more spectacular than the magnificent ringed planet--Saturn.

Week in images: 06-10 November 2023 Discover our week through the lens

SpaceX launched a cargo Dragon mission to the International Space Station Nov. 9 from one Florida pad as it completes work on a neighboring pad to support crew and cargo missions. The post SpaceX launches cargo Dragon mi...

The International Space Station moved away fromdodged space debris on Friday (Nov. 10), Russian space officials said, hours before a SpaceX cargo ship aims to arrive.

"Finding a relationship with topography in one swirl location could just be a fluke, but finding it in two vastly separate swirl regions is harder to ignore."

Avanti Communications is in talks to procure capacity from a low Earth orbit operator to transform into a provider of multi-orbit broadband services, the British regional geostationary satellite operator announced Nov. 1...

Apple TV Plus's alternative history of the space race blasts off for the 21st century and an audacious mission to capture an asteroid.

From its orbit around Earth NASA's Landsat-9 has spotted a newly birthed island off the coast of Japan. The island was forged in fire on Oct.30 when an underwater volcanic eruption rocked the Pacific.

Most rovers have been built for Mars, and each one of them is a complex machine designed with specific goals and terrains in mind. But the Moon is different than Mars. We’re not searching for life there; we’re trying...

Semiconductor giant Qualcomm is scrapping plans to provide the technology Android smartphones would need to directly connect to Iridium's satellites when they can't reach a cell tower. The post Qualcomm ends partnership ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has found that Jupiter's winds whip around the planet's turbulent atmosphere cylindrically.

As far as we know, black holes can only be formed by the death of massive stars, but a persistent theory says that black holes of all masses could have formed directly in the early Universe. These primordial black holes ...

Humanity's ability to track and monitor celestial cycles stretches back into prehistory, long before the invention of telescopes and astrolabes.

The events of 2003 changed the direction of human space exploration -- both in our timeline and that of the alternate history series "For All Mankind." The fourth season picks up in 2003.

The SpaceX-29 commercial resupply spacecraft will deliver numerous physical sciences and space biology experiments, along with other cargo, to the International Space Station. The research aboard this resupply services m...

ESA's Hera asteroid mission has completed acoustic testing, confirming the spacecraft can withstand the sound of its own lift-off into orbit. Testing took place within the Agency's Large European Acoustic Facility at the...

This star projector easily competes with the most expensive models, and with a further Black Friday saving, now's the time to snap one up.

Rovers and orbiters will continue collecting limited data during a two-week communications pause due to the position of Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet. NASA will hold off sending commands to its Mars fleet for two we...

On Nov. 10, journalists were given an up-close view of two very special spacecraft that will soon empower weather services in Europe with more and higher quality data for weather forecasting.

This image, from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 1 November 2023, captures the colors of autumn over the Japanese archipelago.

Bulgaria became the 32nd nation to sign the Artemis Accords in a signing ceremony Nov. 9 with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Milena Stoycheva, Bulgaria's minister of innovation and growth.

The ARRAKIHS consortium, for which EPFL has the science lead, has just successfully passed the mission definition review of the project, a very important first milestone towards full completion of the mission preparation...