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China has made progress on a powerful rocket engine to power its new reusable rockets that are expected to launch the nation's planned crewed moon missions.

Satellites are tracking in real time as multiple major coral reefs around the world get paler due to warming sea temperatures in the fourth-ever global bleaching event.

I really can't believe that the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars took its maiden voyage in April 2021. On the 16th April 2024, engineers at NASA have received the final batch of data from the craft which marks the final task...

A new NASA mission is testing a new way to navigate our solar system by hoisting its sail into space - not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is led by ...

Col. Christopher Fernengel, of the Space Force's Space Operations Command: 'They're directing changes to declassify where it makes sense' The post Pentagon eases cloak of secrecy around space warfare training appeared fi...

Astronomers have mapped a 20,000-light-year-long fountain of gas blasting from a nearby galaxy and polluting intergalactic space at 450 times the top speed of a jet fighter.

With the naked eye, you can't see the weather in space, or feel the cosmic rays beaming down to Earth--but they can impact critical systems like our climate, computer connectivity, communications and even our health.

India has announced its intent to join the global effort to reduce space debris in low Earth orbit.

NASA announced the winners of the 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first place in the high school division, and the University of Alabama in Hunts...

Teams led by Southwest Research Institute successfully executed two experiments--by land and air--collecting unique solar data from the total eclipse that cast a shadow from Texas to Maine on April 8, 2024. The Citizen C...

The most surprising revelation from NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover--that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater--has scientists scratching their heads.

Combining AI and observations of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, scientists have reconstructed a 3D video of Sagittarius A* and its environment.

The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists discovered thousands of exopla...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of gamma radiation, typically generating more energy in a few seconds than the sun will produce over its ten-billion-year lifetime. These transient phenomena present one of the ...

New space technology ideas emerge every day from innovators across the country, and NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program on Monday selected more than 100 projects for funding. This program offers smal...

This Jan. 30, 2012 image of Earth was created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite. Many features of North America and the Western Hemis...

Did Neanderthals wear clothing, jewelry or other accessories? There's not much in the archaeological record to suggest so, but researchers are turning to indirect evidence for clues about ancient fashion styles.

Simulated effects of microgravity significantly affect rhythmicity and sleep in humans, a new study from the University of Surrey finds. Such disturbances could negatively affect the physiology and performance of astrona...

A surprise appearance of a new comet made the April 8 total solar eclipse all the more memorable.

For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived temporarily of oxygen, taught to camp in the snow, and schooled in physiology, anatomy, astron...

On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally "phoned home" and updated its NASA operating team about its health. The interstellar explorer is back in touch after five months of sending back nonsense data.

NASA's Juno spacecraft came within 1,500 km (930 miles) of the surface of Jupiter's moon Io in two recent flybys. That's close enough to reveal new details on the surface of this moon, the most volcanic object in the sol...