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Mars haunts us as a vision of a planet gone wrong. It was once warm and wet, with rivers flowing across its surface and (potentially) simple life residing in its water bodies. Now it’s dry and freezing. Could Earth suf...

NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory rests horizontally in this April 2024 image taken at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado. This orienta...

Learn why the use of a tiny spoon likely suggests that Germanic communities used psychotropic drugs for battle.

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner, known a...

The commercial space industry should establish standardized career paths to attract the talent needed for its rapid expansion, a panel of professional services specialists said at the SpaceCom conference here. The post C...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were able to remove a stuck radio communications unit on a record-setting spacewalk on Thursday (Jan. 30).

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time

Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We've reported before on the idea of having a balloon explore the atmosphere of Venus, and we closely watched the progress of the Mars Oxygen...

The second lunar lander from Japanese space exploration company ispace snapped a stunning image of the Earth as it prepares for its journey to the moon.

By studying the fastest jet ever seen erupting from an infant star, astronomers have discovered that the mechanism that launches these jets also launch supermassive black hole jets.

In this week's episode our guest is Kam Ghaffarian, Chairman, Axiom Space, Intuitive Machines and other companies. Inspired by the Apollo 11 moon landing, starting in his basement, and finally reaching the moon. This is ...

The launch trailer just dropped for Citizen Sleeper 2, the follow-up to the indie smash hit Citizen Sleeper, ahead of the game's release tomorrow.

Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts originate from either the merger of two neutron stars or the collapse of a massive star.

Space streaming company Sen is now broadcasting live views of Earth and space from the International Space Station (ISS) in 4K HD.

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the universe. Before that, astronomy depended on observations of light in all its wavelengths.

Though it's a cold, dead planet, Mars still has its own natural beauty about it. This image shows us something we'll never see on Earth.

NASA's two stuck astronauts took their first spacewalk together Thursday, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in.

I was 20 years old and a member of the 7th Cavalry near the DMZ in South Korea when the first Space Shuttle was launched in 1981. The launch took […] The post Ending the dream appeared first on SpaceNews.

Donald Trump didn't wait to return to the White House before he started to shake up foreign policy. In the weeks leading up to his second inauguration, Trump proposed reclaiming […] The post Foust Forward | ESA navigat...

SpaceX and Vast Space are looking for research ideas to fly aboard Vast's new Haven-1 space station launching later this year.

The Space Force is prepped to support an average of 13 launches per month from the Space Coast in 2025, but it's a juggling act that has the world's No. 1 spaceport running up against infrastructure roadblocks.

A remarkable sight will appear in the southwestern sky an hour after sunset Saturday evening when Venus appears very close to a thin crescent moon.