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Ever since the discovery of methane on Mars, scientists have wondered if the Red Planet might harbor life. Now, researchers know where to look: deep under the surface of a broad Martian plain.

The FCC has formally allocated additional spectrum for launch applications, fulfilling a provision in a bill passed earlier this year. The post FCC allocates additional spectrum for commercial launches appeared first on ...

SpaceX dominates the commercial space race. 'Crazy numbers,' says Brig. Gen. Kristin Panzenhagen, commander of the Eastern Range The post Space Force marks Florida’s record-breaking launch year appeared first on SpaceN...

The Panasonic Leica Summilux DG 15mm f/1.7 ASPH is a Micro Four Thirds prime lens offering an equivalent focal length of 30mm.

Getting back to the Moon is the primary goal of NASA’s Artemis program, but what do we do once we get there? That is the challenge tackled by a group of students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who wrot...

NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at...

As the animated show comes to an end, we look back at the best 'Trek' gags from the final frontier.

Dark energy is central to the standard model of cosmology, but the Timescape model suggests dark matter doesn't exist. The post New Study of Supernovae Data Suggests That Dark Energy is an Illusion appeared first on Univ...

Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across the continent.

Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron stars and possibly black holes. These fleeting fireworks last for just a thousandth of a second and...

Blue Origin has achieved an important milestone with its New Glenn NG-1 rocket, successfully completing a 24-second hotfire of the rocket's BE-4 engines in preparation for an expected test flight in the coming days. This...

When the Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on Friday, it will be the year's first chance to see fireballs in the sky.

The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don't expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that mesmerized North America last spring.

Kenyan officials said Wednesday they were investigating fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a village in the country's south.

Learn about the discovery of Tyrannosaur fossils in the southern coast of England, showing that the dinosaurs lived in the region 135 million years ago.

Last night, the sun and Earth collaborated to give us a light show that no fireworks display could rival. Happy New Year!

From lunar and asteroid missions to groundbreaking human spaceflight tests and new rockets, 2025 promises an array of spectacular space missions.

Have you looked up at the night sky this season and noticed a bright object sporting a reddish hue to the left of Orion? This is none other than the planet Mars! January will be an excellent opportunity to spot this plan...

If the modern age of astronomy could be summarized in a few words, it would probably be “the age of shifting paradigms.” Thanks to next-generation telescopes, instruments, and machine learning, astronomers are conduc...