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The killer whales of their time, large pliosaurs dominated the world's oceans for some 80 million years.

A ground-breaking new discovery by University of Leeds scientists could transform the way astronomers understand some of the biggest and most common stars in the universe. The paper, "Gaia uncovers difference in B and Be...

India plans to bring moon samples back to Earth later in the 2020s with its Chandrayaan-4 mission.

The DJI Osmo Action 4 is an impressive performer in all areas making it an excellent choice for professional and enthusiast FPV drone video capture.

While preparing for the threat of an asteroid strike might seem like a hypothetical exercise, it’s really not. The Solar System has calmed down a lot from earlier times when impacts were more frequent. But it is only a...

NASA Langley Research Group The research group supporting the SaSa program includes: Instrumentation Below is a snapshot of instruments and tools Langley uses to support SaSa student projects and the summer airborne scie...

NASA's EMIT instrument is turning into an important tool in combating climate change.

Lunar rover developer Astrolab announced eight customers have signed contracts worth more than $160 million for its first mission to the moon in 2026. The post Astrolab announces first customers for commercial lunar rove...

New research suggests massive "vampire" stars exist in triple star systems.

If you look at massive galaxies teeming with stars, you might be forgiven for thinking they are star factories, churning out brilliant balls of gas. But actually, less evolved dwarf galaxies have bigger regions of star f...

The Psyche spacecraft just fired a laser on its way to a metal asteroiod, in a test that could help speed up science transmissions across the solar system.

This article is for students grades 5-8 A black hole is a region in space where the pulling force of gravity is so strong that light is not able to escape. The strong gravity occurs because matter has been pressed into a...

This article is for students grades K-4.   A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This ...

SpaceX has completed its second orbital launch test; and once again, the results were a bit mixed! The post SpaceX Tested Its Starship Again. Successful Launch But Both Vehicles Were Destroyed appeared first on Universe ...

Caesar is gone, but ape civilizations are emerging in 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.' Here's everything we know about this new start for the movie series.

Embracing the New Space approach, it has taken just 36 months to develop and build ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite. Now complete, this remarkable microsatellite has been shipped from OHB in Sweden to Germany where it is s...

The Canadian Space Agency will announce new astronaut assignments on Nov. 22, just 6 months after astronaut Jeremy Hansen received a moon mission for Artemis 2.

Astrophysicists working with the JWST have found a surprising amount of metal in a galaxy only 350 million years after the Big Bang. How does that fit in with our understanding of the Universe? The origin of the Universe...

SpaceX shared incredible photos from the second test flight of its Starship megarocket over the weekend, including views of its 33 first-stage Raptor engines igniting for liftoff.

NASA announces the award of eleven grants or cooperative agreements for exciting new Space Biology research that will advance NASA's understanding of how exposure to lunar dust/regolith impact both plant and animal syste...

Commonly thought to be long-lived satellites of our galaxy, a new study now finds indications that most dwarf galaxies might, in fact, be destroyed soon after their entry into the Galactic halo.

A team of volcanologists and planetary scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, the University of Arizona, and Arizona State University has found via study of a newly created ...