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A second successful test of a redesigned rocket motor clears the way for Europe's Vega C rocket to return to flight nearly two years after a launch failure. The post Vega C ready for return to flight after second motor t...

NASA has selected 75 student teams to begin an engineering design challenge to build rovers that will compete next spring at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center near the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA's highly anticipated Europa Clipper astrobiology mission on Oct. 10, and you can watch the action live.

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A 10-year project produces both brain wiring diagram and a "parts list" -- paving the way for greater understanding of human brain.

Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, astronomers and citizen scientists have discovered a record-breaking system of three tightly bound stars that could fit between the sun and Mercury.

Yesterday the sun released a huge solar flare, and it's heading toward Earth. It's nothing to worry about since it's nowhere near as large as the Carrington Event of 1859, but it is large enough to give us some amazing a...

Physical infrastructure on the moon will be critical to any long-term human presence there as both America and China gear up for a sustained human lunar presence. Increasingly, a self-deploying tower is one of the most e...

We've known the universe is expanding for a long time. The first solid paper demonstrating cosmic expansion was published by Edwin Hubble in 1929, based on observations made by Vesto Slipher, Milton Humason, and Henriett...

In this June 26, 2023, photo taken from the International Space Station, sunlight shines off the smooth waters of the Alabama River in a phenomenon known as sunglint. When photographing Earth, astronauts often take advan...

The Celestron 70mm Travel Scope is currently 18% off ahead of Amazon's Big Deal Days and is ideal for beginners.

The NASA Science Activation program's Place-Based Learning to Advance Connections, Education, and Stewardship (PLACES) project supports middle and high school educators to engage students in data-rich Earth science learn...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will travel several hundred million kilometers to reach the double asteroid Didymos in autumn 2026.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was launched in December 2021 it has provided groundbreaking insights. These include discovering the earliest...

The company will provide two orbital transfer vehicles that will carry space surveillance payloads for the U.S. military's Tactically Responsive Space program The post Impulse Space wins $34.5 million contract for U.S. S...

College students are making "waves" with a discovery they made during the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14, 2023.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the galaxy, NGC 4694. Most galaxies fall into one of two basic types. Spiral galaxies are young and energetic, filled with the gas needed to form new stars and sporting ...

Zebrafish aboard China's Tiangong space station are doing well in orbit, according to an update on the experiments.

NASA has selected 71 teams from across the U.S. to participate in its 25th annual Student Launch Challenge, one of the agency's Artemis Student Challenges. The competition is aimed at inspiring Artemis Generation student...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary defenses.

Every second, more than 3,000 stars are born in the visible universe. Many are surrounded by what astronomers call a protoplanetary disk--a swirling "pancake" of hot gas and dust from which planets form. The exact proces...

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