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A renovated Chinese underground lab has expanded the search for dark matter, offering new promise for the detection of this abundant yet elusive substance.

SpaceX plans to launch the Merah Putih 2 satellite for Indonesian communications company Telkomsat today (Feb. 20) during a two-hour window that opens at 3:11 p.m. EST (2011 GMT).

A new solution to Einstein's theory of general relativity suggests a hypothetical star could be made of stacked black holes.

What shape Is the Sun? Hint: it's not perfectly round! Knowing precisely how the Sun's shape deviates from a sphere can teach us about its interior and test theories of gravity. You can help measure the Sun's shape by jo...

Sian Proctor spoke to Space.com about her captivating story of a woman who soared past barriers to pave the way for more diversity and inclusivity in space.

It’s an exciting time in astronomy today, where records are being broken and reset regularly. We are barely two months into 2023, and already new records have been set for the farthest black hole yet observed, the brig...

As part of NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Intuitive Machines is targeting no earlier than 5:49 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 22, to land their Odysseus lunar lander near Malape...

Eye-tracking technology supported by NASA makes 'talking' possible for people who can't.

After 25 years of international collaboration operating the largest and most technologically advanced laboratory in low Earth orbit, the current decade of research results has seen thousands of researchers around the wor...

Here's everything we know about Netflix's upcoming sci-fi event series, "3 Body Problem"

Once known for her beloved roles on Disney Channel, Bridgit Mendler has re-introduced herself as a CEO in the space business game.

A comet is set to pass by Earth this spring, and it may be missing its tail.

Renee King calls herself Goddard Space Flight Center's conscience: She helps make sure that at NASA Goddard, there truly is space for everyone. Name: Renee KingTitle: Deputy Director of Equal OpportunityFormal Job Classi...

Following the success of the Apollo 8 circumlunar mission, NASA believed that it could achieve a Moon landing by the summer of 1969 and meet President John F. Kennedy's goal. Much work remained to accomplish that objecti...

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross parts of the United States. For millions of people along the path of totality, where the Moon will completely cover the Sun, it may feel like an eerie daytime darkness h...

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is available in limited opportunities to discuss her mission beginning at 8 a.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 26. The interviews will take place ahead of Dyson launching to the International Space St...

New observations from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt--the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks--might stretch m...

Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? If so, how do scientists search for and identify it? Finding life beyond Earth is extremely difficult, partly because other planets are so far away and partly because we are not...

Scientists have now reported evidence of the true conditions in Hell, perhaps because no one has ever returned to tell the tale. Hell has been imagined as a supremely uncomfortable place, hot and hostile to bodily forms ...

NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails views a demonstration on screen in the Airspace Operations Laboratory at NASA's Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Researchers presented the diverse, l...

New observations from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt - the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks - might stretch...

French maritime surveillance provider Unseenlabs plans to launch its 12th and 13th nanosatellite no earlier than March, passing the halfway mark for a constellation slated to begin tracking vessels in near real-time in 2...