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In 1960, in preparation for the first SETI conference, Cornell astronomer Frank Drake formulated an equation to calculate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in our Milky Way. Rather than being a scie...

For decades, astronomers have used powerful instruments to capture images of the cosmos in various wavelengths. This includes optical images, where visible light is observed, and images that capture non-visible radiation...

Europe's Hera asteroid probe will use the Red Planet for a gravity assist on its way to scope out the space rock crash site of NASA's DART impactor.

Although the outer Solar System is mostly empty, there are icy objects drifting within the very limits of detection by our largest telescopes. But maybe small telescopes can be more successful. A new paper suggests that ...

A stellar odd couple 700 light-years away is creating a chaotically beautiful display of colourful, gaseous filaments. The Hubble captured the pair, named R Aquarii, and their symbiotic interactions. Every 44 years the s...

HELSINKI -- A cargo spacecraft has arrived at China's Tiangong space station, delivering supplies, experiments and equipment to support crewed missions. The Tianzhou-8 spacecraft launched atop a Long March 7 […] The po...

2025 isn't expected to be a great year for comets, but with luck, you might get a few good sightings.

Crew-8 commander Matthew Dominick says NASA is carefully making decisions for astronaut safety while the ISS deals with a leak, and spacesuit issues, related to aging hardware.

NASA researchers Guan Yang, Jeff Chen, and their team received the 2024 Innovator of The Year Award at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for their exemplary work on a lidar system enhanced ...

About 370,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe had cooled down so light could escape, traveling for billions of years to reach our telescopes. This is the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, and the very last li...

While Starlink is becoming a moneymaker for SpaceX, the company's president believes that Starship will have a bigger long-term impact. The post Shotwell predicts Starship to be most valuable part of SpaceX appeared firs...

At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the universe - from our planet to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Supercomputers enable project...

Scientists are trying to figure out how minerals connected to exoplanetary water would look to the James Webb Space Telescope.

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades--and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown Uranus' upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, with no clear explanation.

What can be expected of a second Trump administration on space policy? In short, a mixture of continuity and change.

Images from the International Space Station clearly shows Earth's curvature.

In this photo, NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, carrying the Orion spacecraft, lifts off the pad at Launch Complex 39B at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:47 a.m. EST on Nov. 16, 2022. Set on a p...

Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since.

China's Chang'e 8 mission to test resource technologies at the moon's south pole is taking shape -- and may even include a humanoid form.

Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Ge...

Apple TV+'s "Silo" Season 2 launches on Nov. 15 and we've got everything you need to catch up with Season 1.

AST SpaceMobile, a startup with plans for a direct-to-cellphone satellite service constellation, has chosen Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket to launch some of its next-gen satellites.