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The Earth is a wonderful blue and green dot covered with oceans and life, while Venus is a yellowish sterile sphere that is not only inhospitable but also sterile. However, the difference between the two is only a few de...

The Hubble Space Telescope photographed NGC 2814, an irregular galaxy that belongs to a group of four "late-type galaxies" collectively called Holmberg 124.

Lynk Global plans to list shares on Nasdaq to expand its direct-to-smartphone constellation by merging with Slam Corp, a publicly traded shell company led by former professional baseball player Alex Rodriguez. The post L...

The observations are vital for piecing together the science objectives for a future mission to Uranus.

This letter from SARA is to issue a waiver for NASA grantees attending LPSC 2024 allowing them to be reimbursed out of their grants for their actual lodging, although it's expected to be above the approved GSA amount. Th...

Light sail technology is a fascinating concept and a step change in rocket propulsion. It may not be big and impressive like the Saturn V, the Space Shuttle or the new Starship rocket but when it comes to traveling among...

NASA's Stennis Space Center brings together people from all backgrounds to support NASA's mission to explore the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all and inspire the world through discovery. NASA Stennis also s...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this dynamic world with rings, moons, storms, and other atmospheric features-...

Scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed testing for BurstCube, a shoebox-sized spacecraft designed to study the universe's most powerful explosions. Members o...

Enceladus’ status as a target in the search for life keeps rising. We’ve known for years that plumes erupting from the ocean under the moon’s icy shell contain important organic compounds related to life. Now, rese...

The video, featuring a cat named Taters, was sent back from nearly 19 million miles away by NASA's laser communications demonstration, marking a historic milestone. NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment bea...

Telescopes have been collecting copious amounts of data on exoplanets in recent years. One of the most common datasets tracks what are known as “transits,” where an exoplanet crosses in front of its host star and dim...

The way astronomers study planets in our own solar system is surprisingly similar to the way they study exoplanets, despite the latter being orders of magnitude more distant. The key is spectroscopy--examining the wavele...

It's a classic tale of apocalyptic fiction. The sun, our precious source of heat and light, collapses into a black hole. Or perhaps a stray black hole comes along and swallows it up. The End is Nigh! If a stellar-mass bl...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is already making great strides in helping us to unravel the mysteries of the universe. Earlier this year, hundreds of rogue planets were discovered in the Orion Nebula. The real sur...

A month after its latest liftoff, SpaceX's giant Starship rocket is getting ready to fly again.

A new study released Dec. 18 sheds light on potential challenges in the United States' ambitious effort to deploy a network of space sensors for detecting and tracking hypersonic missiles. The post Report: Hypersonic wea...

Just four days after being launched on its third mission, China's mysterious reusable space plane seems to have placed six unknown objects in orbit around it.

Back in March, Spain became the latest country to get its own space agency, when the nation's government passed a Royal Decree approving the bylaws of the Spanish Space Agency, or Agencia Espacial Española (AEE). The po...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 2814, an irregular galaxy that lies about 85 million light-years from Earth. In this image, which was captured using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, the galaxy ap...

Western Europe's first vertical spaceport receives a launch license, paving the way for the continent's debut rocket flight next year.

Are we alone in the universe? About 30,000 volunteers want to know! These volunteers visited arewealone.earth to sift through a huge data set from the 100 meter Green Bank Telescope--inspecting it for signals that might ...