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The Pentagon office in charge of investigating UFO reports — now known officially as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs — today provided its most detailed explanation for what it said were false or misconstrue...

NASA and Boeing have delayed the first-ever crewed flight of the company's new Starliner capsule to early May, a slip of a few weeks.

The Pentagon's UFO office is developing sensor kits to help it collect data in real time on unidentified objects in the sky or in space.

In 2008, astronomers with the SuperWASP survey spotted WASP-12b as it transited in front of its star. At the time, it was part of a new class of exoplanets (“Hot Jupiters”) discovered a little more than a decade befo...

Jupiter's icy moon Europa has long been thought of as one of the most habitable worlds in the Solar System. Now the Juno mission to Jupiter has directly sampled its atmosphere in detail for the first time. The results, p...

Congress has passed a final fiscal year 2024 spending bill that provides, in some cases, significantly less funding than requested for civil space programs. The post Congress passes final fiscal year 2024 spending bill f...

The standard theory says that white dwarfs are the dead cores of main sequence stars. They're out of fuel and cooling off to the background temperature of the Universe. But now observations show that white dwarfs are sur...

A total solar eclipse is coming on April 8, 2024, but how much do you really know about it?

The company won a $3.5 million award under a four-year contract worth up to $23 million for satellite imagery and data analytics to enable space-based tracking of moving vehicles The post BlackSky secures back-to-back U....

On Episode 101 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Space.com's Brett Tingley discuss the recent reports and delve into the history of the militarization of space by Russia, China, and the United States.

Benro's Tortoise series tripods are loved for being lightweight, compact and sturdy -- we put it to the test to find out.

After more than six months on the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and the rest of Crew-7 will undock and make their way down to Earth on 11 March 2024 at 13:15 GMT/14:15 CET, splashing down of...

As long as it has existed as a genre, there has been a notable relationship between science fiction and science fact. Since our awareness of the Universe and everything in it has changed with time, so have depictions and...

NASA will provide live coverage of the agency's SpaceX Crew-7 return to Earth from the International Space Station, beginning with a change-of-command ceremony at 11:55 a.m. EDT on Sunday, March 10. NASA astronaut Jasmin...

The challenges of working on the surface of the Moon are at the center of a facility at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. The Lunar Lab and Regolith Testbeds help scientists and engineers - from...

Marvel Comics is publishing special "Star Wars" variant covers for Women's History Month that showcase some of the women of the galaxy far, far away.