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Learn about the unique aspects of the Pink Moon, the upcoming full moon that will illuminate the night sky as a micromoon on April 12, 2025.

Learn about the ancient rhinos that lived and died together in Nebraska in the Middle Miocene.

China launched Thursday what appears to be the third satellite for a subset of classified, experimental satellites bound for geosynchronous orbit. The post China launches TJS-17, expanding classified geostationary satell...

Netflix's edgy animated anthology makes a provocative comeback on May 15.

NASA's Juno spacecraft went into safe mode twice on April 4, but everything's okay again.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured two amazing videos of the auroras from his unique perch above Earth last week.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revisited a star that swallowed a planet and found that instead of the star subsuming the planet, it was the planet that crashed into the star.

Exploring the Moon with Biologically-Inspired Subsurface Robots

British in-orbit manufacturing venture Space Forge has appointed technology veteran Atul Kumar to set up a semiconductor business in the United States, aiming to bolster domestic chip production as efforts to reduce reli...

Are we alone in the universe? The answer to one of humanity's biggest questions is complicated by a basic reality: If there is life on other worlds, it may not look familiar. A sample of rocks from Mars or another planet...

Commercial space station developer Vast has signed three more payload customers for its Haven-1 station set to launch in a little more than a year. The post Vast signs three more payload partners for Haven-1 appeared fir...

As part of its strategic commitment to strengthening domestic semiconductor manufacturing, Spirit Electronics has acquired SMART Microsystems, located at Lorain County Community College (LCCC) in Ohio. This expansion int...

Scientists with NASA's Perseverance rover are exploring what they consider a veritable Martian cornucopia full of intriguing rocky outcrops on the rim of Jezero Crater. Studying rocks, boulders, and outcrops helps scient...

Our guest today is Brad Head, Managing Director of International Partnerships at Elara Nova. He sits down with Chief Content and Strategy Officer Mike Gruss, to break down the latest news and insights from the Symposium ...

When students actively participate in scientific investigations that connect to their everyday lives, something powerful happens: they begin to see themselves as scientists. This sense of relevance and ownership can spar...

When students actively participate in scientific investigations that connect to their everyday lives, something powerful happens: they begin to see themselves as scientists. This sense of relevance and ownership can spar...

Alexander Skarsgård's rogue security unit will be unleashed on May 16, 2025, exclusively on Apple TV+.

What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a recently submitted NASA white paper--which highlights key findings from the annual Architecture Co...

The widespread use of low Earth orbit (LEO), especially by thousands of CubeSats, has opened up many opportunities in research and business applications. One particular field that has benefited from the data that CubeSat...

NASA astronaut Chris Williams will launch on his first mission to the International Space Station, on a Russian Soyuz rocket with two cosmonaut colleagues, as early as November.

Flying high above the clouds and moon-gazing may sound like a scene from a timeless romance, but NASA did just that in the name of Earth science research. In March 2025 pilots took the agency's ER-2 science aircraft on a...

Have we ever been to Uranus? The answer is simple, yes, but only once. The Voyager II spacecraft flew by the planet Uranus back in 1986, during a golden era when the Voyager spacecraft explored all four giant planets of ...