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The Curiosity shows sulfur stones, with no explanation of how they occurred on the Martian surface.

The Northern Lights were visible much farther south than usual this year, and pictures of the colorful hues filled social media. Now, imagine an aurora hundreds of times brighter--except no one would be able to snap a ph...

Volcanoes are not restricted to the land, there are many undersea versions. One such undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai off the coast of Tonga. On 15th January 2022, it underwent an eruption which was on...

NASA supercomputers are shedding light on what causes some of the sun's most complex behaviors. Using data from the suite of active sun-watching spacecraft currently observing the star at the heart of our solar system, r...

In 1936, astronomers saw a puzzling event in the constellation Orion: the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) became a hundred times brighter in a matter of months. At its peak, FU Ori was intrinsically 100 times brighter tha...

For a little over a month now, the Earth has been joined by a new 'mini-moon.' The object is an asteroid that has been temporarily accompanying Earth on its journey around the Sun. By 25th November it will have departed ...

NASA and SpaceX released a new set of illustrations showing off how Starship might look as it lands astronauts on the moon during the Artemis 3 mission.

The third and fourth WorldView Legion satellites launched in August were the first in Maxar's history to be deployed in mid-inclination orbit The post Maxar prepares for final WorldView Legion launch to complete advanced...

Despite decades of study, black holes are still one of the most puzzling objects in the Universe. As we know from Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, the gravitational force of these stellar remnants alters the cu...

Lee esta historia en español aquí. The International Space Station is humanity's home in space and a research station orbiting about 250 miles above the Earth. NASA and its international partners have maintained a cont...

Learn why this one-of-a-kind discovery helps researchers understand more about the saber-tooth cat.

Canada will soon roll a rover onto the moon, and you can help name the pioneering machine.

74 million kilometres is a huge distance from which to observe something. But 74 million km isn’t such a big deal when the object is the Sun. That’s how far away from the Sun the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter was when it ca...

The search for the universe's dark matter could end tomorrow--given a nearby supernova and a little luck. The nature of dark matter has eluded astronomers for 90 years, since the realization that 85% of the matter in the...

BREMEN, Germany -- Beijing-based Space Transportation is projecting the second half of 2025 for a first test of its Cuantianhou near space reusable spaceplane prototype. Space Transportation, or Lingkong Tianxing […] T...

In a new study, a team of astrophysicists led by CU Boulder has set out to unravel the mysteries of UFOs--not the alien spacecraft, but a class of unusually large and red galaxies that researchers have nicknamed Ultra-re...

How do you weigh one of the largest objects in the entire universe? Very carefully, according to new research.

Two missions--USSF-106 and USSF-87--are currently waiting in the wings, with payloads ready but no confirmed launch dates The post Space Force adjusts timeline as Vulcan's national security launches slip to 2025 appeared...

Three ultramassive galaxies found by the James Webb Space Telescope have astronomers reconsidering how galaxies grew so quickly in the first billion years after the Big Bang.

Learn how measuring and monitoring astronauts' cognitive abilities could improve performance, safety on longer missions.

This Oct. 4, 2017, illustration shows a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian’s Star or Tabby’s Star. The star has experienced unusual dips in brightness over a matter of days,...

Every now and then, astronomers will detect an odd kind of radio signal. So powerful it can outshine a galaxy, but lasting only milliseconds. They are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). When they were first discovered a ...