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Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better protected against their own exhaust, thanks to new supercomputer simulations.

The Einstein Probe is a collaboration between Europa and China and was designed to detect flashes of low-energy X-rays, so-called "soft X-rays." Recently, the Probe automatically detected a 17-minute-long flash in bright...

Buttes and mesas in Mars' Chryse Planitia contain clay minerals made from liquid water interacting with the rock nearly 4 billion years ago.

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves--so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs)--ema...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning system for dangerous space we...

NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras and study the unique ribbons of light that dance across the Alaskan night sky.

If parallel universes exist, can we access them? Let's explore the possibility.

As the shadowy branch of Starfleet Intelligence gets its very own movie, we look back at Section 31's morally dubious history.

Blue Origin's next suborbital spaceflight will be a long-awaited demonstration of New Shepard's ability to generate lunar gravity rather than microgravity. The post New Shepard flight to demonstrate lunar gravity appeare...