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On November 26th, 2018, NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission landed on Mars. This was a major milestone in Mars exploration since it was the first time...

Anuvu is looking to rise above geostationary satellite delays with plans for 16 spacecraft in highly elliptical orbit, which would turbocharge broadband speeds for airlines using polar routes to shorten flight times. The...

One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 planets, and we have evidence for thousands more. Most of these planets were discovered using the...

An old galaxy reveals clusters of young stars that have formed in an unusually synchronized fashion, challenging the idea that star formation declines as galaxies age.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe swoops in for its seventh and final swing past Venus ahead of its history-making encounter with the sun on Christmas Eve.

For nearly a decade, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has been working to bring together resources through its DigiKits-multimedia collections of vetted high-quality resources for teachers and their st...

A new design competition, dubbed Project Hyperion, is calling for submissions for the design of a crewed interstellar generation ship.

A rocket-propelled target is scheduled to launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a window Thursday, Nov. 7 to Friday, Nov. 8 between 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. EST both days as part of a U.S. Navy Fl...

The theory of black holes has several mathematical oddities. Recent research shows our understanding of rotating black holes might not be as strong as we thought. The post We Understand Rotating Black Holes Even Less Tha...

Nine years ago, Blue Origin revealed the plans for their New Glenn rocket, a heavy-lift vehicle with a reusable first stage that would compete with SpaceX for orbital flights. Since that time, SpaceX has launched hundred...

A review of Netflix's new "The Man Who Loved UFOs," a film exploring a 1986 flying saucer hoax that captured the attention of a nation.

NASA astronauts can vote from space, but why can't they endorse political candidates? As it turns out, U.S. federal law specifically prohibits them from doing so.

While you can get good discounts during both shopping events, we take a look at which is better between Black Friday and the Christmas sales.

On Nov. 9, 2024, the world will mark Carl Sagan's 90th birthday--but sadly without Sagan, who died in 1996 at the age of 62.

Matthew McConaughey narrates four new cinematic teaser trailers for out-of-this-world alien creatures in upcoming sci-fi role playing game "Exodus."

"This is incredibly exciting, as up to now we have not had a tool for detecting plastics in coastal environments from space."

Torrential rainfall causing deadly flash floods has hit southern and eastern Spain in regions including the Costa del Sol, where the city of Malaga is located, and Valencia in the east.As these areas struggle to cope wit...

NASA's TESS mission has turned up thousands of exoplanet candidates in almost as many different star systems. But if one or two planets show up in a system, that means it's aligned with Earth, and that means we should be...

The first human tissue samples from Oxford's Space Innovation Lab (SIL) have been launched and are on their way to the International Space Station, where they will be used to study the effects of space microgravity on th...

As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around it. In this sequence of images the terrestrial disk gradually shrinks as the spacecraft recedes...

On November 26, 2018, NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission landed on Mars. This was a major milestone in Mars exploration since it was the first time a r...

Many people think of the James Webb Space Telescope as a sort of Hubble 2. They understand that the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has served us well but is now old and overdue for replacement. NASA seems to agree, as they...