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Discover how an analysis of more than 700 objects reveals obsidian came into the Aztec capital from far and wide.

Learn how a trio of scientists do the math, based on a Stephen Hawking theory, and even ask how long it would take for a human and the moon to evaporate.

Read this story in English here. ¿Sueñas con trabajar para la NASA y contribuir a la exploración y la innovación en beneficio de la humanidad? Los programas de pasantías de la agencia ofrecen a los estudiantes de se...

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like rogue planets with internal heating or icy moons with subsurface oceans created by tidal heating...

New data from space telescopes has been transformed into cosmic soundscapes, turning the mysterious activity around black holes into a symphony of the universe.

JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes during the spacecraft's 69th flyby of the giant planet on Jan. 28, 2025. Jupiter's belts and zones ...

A new study by scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several institutes across India and Saudi Arabia has reported 26 novel bacterial species growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions. ...

A network of Cold War-era infrasound sensors can help scientists reconstruct trajectories of falling space objects.

Auria Space and Sphinx Defense will develop competing versions of what the Space Force calls a "joint antenna marketplace" The post Space Force selects vendors to build cloud-based ground station marketplaces appeared fi...

A famous cache of wooden spear shafts and other hunting tools was once ascribed to a group of early humans that were not known for social organization.

German launch services provider Exolaunch is working with non-U.S. customers to reclaim most of the tariffs they must pay to deploy their satellites via SpaceX. The post Foreign SpaceX launch customers seek relief from U...

"It is pulp science fiction, and nobody got it. We never stood a chance".

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, we know that life arose early in our world, and the building blocks of life, including amino ac...

Discover why scientists and politicians are calling for the creation of a Coordinated Lunar Time.

After a strong VR-native version last year, Alien: Rogue Incursion - Part One is invading PS5 and PC with a traditional flat-screen edition in 2025.

A new study offers key insights into Mars' water cycle, but the findings are based on seismic data from just one region, highlighting the need for future missions to confirm the results across the planet.

NASA will host a live Twitch event to highlight the ongoing Moon Mascot Challenge, which invites the public to design a zero gravity indicator for the agency's Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon. Viewers will ...

Over the past decade, the Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on the surface of Mars. This gas is often produced by microbes, so it could herald the presence of life on the red planet. But skeptics have postu...

Headed for Jupiter's moon Europa, the spacecraft did some sightseeing, using a flyby of Mars to calibrate its infrared imaging instrument. On its recent swing by Mars, NASA's Europa Clipper took the opportunity to captur...

The huge antenna for Europe's newly launched Biomass forest-monitoring satellite has been successfully deployed, a big milestone for the mission.

Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the red planet: a vast reservoir of liquid water, locked deep in the crust.

The Defense Innovation Unit added more than a dozen new companies to its Hybrid Space Architecture project. The post Pentagon taps more firms to build commercial-military satellite network appeared first on SpaceNews.