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Every Martian year (which last 686.98 Earth days), the Red Planet experiences regional dust storms that coincide with summer in the southern hemisphere. Every three Martian years (five and a half Earth years), these stor...

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) finds actively feeding black holes and a host of other black hole candidates.

Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists believed the moon had a solid surface that would support astronauts and their landing craft, a few bel...

SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said that NASA should deorbit the International Space Station "as soon as possible," preferably in the next two years. The post Musk calls for deorbiting ISS "as soon as possible" appeare...

Is NASA still Moonbound, or will the next giant leap mean skipping straight to Mars?

Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the Moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists believed the Moon had a solid surface that would support astronauts and their landing craft, a few bel...

The excavation started in 2022 and has unearthed important ancient Egyptian history.

The International Space Station "has served its purpose" and should be deorbited "as soon as possible," SpaceX chief and close Trump adviser Elon Musk said today (Feb. 20).

How prepared are we to deflect an asteroid heading towards Earth? This question is answered by two studies just published in Nature Communications, the result of a collaboration between Politecnico di Milano, Georgia Ins...

Media are invited to visit NASA's simulated Mars habitat on Monday, March 10, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The simulation will help prepare humanity for future missions to the Red Planet. This is the ...

Rippled textures in a shallow lake bed on Mars indicate that ice-free liquid water once pooled here.

Jeff Dozier, an environmental scientist, snow hydrologist, researcher, academic - and former Earth Observing System Project Scientist - died on November 17, 2024. Jeff's research focused on snow hydrology and biogeochemi...

Berrien Moore III, Dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma (OU), director of the National Weather Center in Norman, OK, and Vice President for Weather and Climate Programs...

Images from ALMA telescope provide insight to the earlier years of our universe.

If we're looking for life as we don't know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid -- the stuff that's floating around in the clouds of Venus.

Gateway's HALO module heads to the U.S., on its long path to orbiting the Moon. Preparations for Lunar Gateway are starting to come together. Thales Alenia Aerospace engineers recently began a series of checks on the HAL...

Engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida completed stacking the twin SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters - seen in this Feb. 19, 2025, photo - inside the Vehicle Assembly Building for the agency's�...

This Astronaut star projector is currently just 20% off, offering gorgeous indoor nebulas in a fun, novelty model at a sizable discount.

Airbus is taking an additional 300 million euros in charges on its space projects as it continues talks with two other European companies about combining their satellite businesses. The post Airbus takes another 300 mill...

A SpaceX rocket stage fell to Earth early Wednesday morning (Feb. 19), blazing a trail of fire through European skies.

NASA marked a key milestone Feb. 18 with installation of RS-25 engine No. E20001, the first new production engine to help power the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on future Artemis missions to the Moon. The engine, bui...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of the first pulsar by the Globular Clusters GMRT Pulsar Search (GCGPS) survey. The pulsar, designated PSR J1617'2258A, was found in the globular cluster NGC 609...