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Learn the best time and place to view the upcoming Eta Aquarids meteor shower.

As we prepare for the arrival of Metroid Prime 4, here's the complete timeline of the entire Metroid series, in both chronological and release order.

Learn how fossil footprints prove pterosaurs walked the Earth long before they vanished from the sky.

NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain will head outside the ISS at around 8 a.m. ET today (May 1) on history's fifth all-female spacewalk, and you can watch it live.

Space exploration not only allows us to look out into the universe but it also allows us to look back at Earth. ESA's Biomass satellite will measure the amount of carbon in the world's forests, tracking how the carbon cy...

After weeks of preparation, the space observatory has begun its science mission, taking about 3,600 unique images per day to create a map of the cosmos like no other. Launched on March 11, NASA's SPHEREx space observator...

Flares from a supermagnetized star may have generated as much as 10 percent of our galaxy's heavy elements.

NASA will keep trying for another six weeks to revive its water-hunting Lunar Trailblazer moon probe, which went silent a day after its Feb. 26 launch.

The contracts are for the Space Test Experiments Platform (STEP) 2.0 program The post U.S. Space Force taps 12 firms for $237 million small-satellite procurement appeared first on SpaceNews.

Matthew Lohmeier was nominated by President Trump to be undersecretary of the Air Force, overseeing both the Air Force and the Space Force The post Lohmeier defends qualifications for Air Force post as senators question ...

As young stars form, they exert a powerful influence on their surroundings and create complex interactions between them and their environments. As they gobble up gas and dust, they generate a rotating disk of material. T...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes. The bone appears to have been struck by a...

The Federal Aviation Administration is grounding Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket until the company completes an investigation into the vehicle's April 29 launch failure.

A team of researchers led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory examined the possibility that the jets coming from collapsing stars could be responsible for creating the heaviest elements in the Universe.

A recent study on ancient Egyptian imagery suggests rare drawings of the sky goddess Nut represent the earliest visualization of the Milky Way galaxy's Great Rift.

Artistic depictions of the Ancient Egyptian god Nut reveal an awareness of the Milky Way galaxy.

Simsbury, CT -- May 1, 2025 -- Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense (EBAD) has once again demonstrated its unparalleled expertise in spacecraft dispensing with the successful deployment of the first round […] The post E...

A Russian cargo ship docked to the International Space Station fired its thrusters Wednesday (April 30) to distance itself from passing piece of orbital space debris.

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers uncovered a mysterious feature within the remnant, nicknamed the "Green Monster," alongside a puzzling network of ejecta filaments forming a web of oxygen-rich materia...

NASA is awarding up to $870,000 annually to 52 institutions across the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico over the next four years. The investments aim to create opportunities for the next generatio...

Before Saturn and Neptune team up to leave Venus in the dust later in the month.

We tend to think of Extraterrestrial Intelligences (ETIs)--if they exist--as civilizations that have overcome the problems that still plague us. They're advanced, peaceful, disease-free technological societies that enjoy...