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As the fracas between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated to the point of Musk threatening to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, NASA revealed even more delays to Dragon's alternative, Boeing's Starliner...

As astronomers found more and more exoplanets in recent years, they've discovered an unusual gap in the population. It's called the Neptunian Desert, a curious scarcity of Neptune-sized exoplanets orbiting close to their...

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The Earth's atmosphere is protected by a magnetosphere, but Mars lacks this protective shield and lost its atmosphere to space long ago through interactions with the solar wind. In a new paper, scientists report that the...

Astronomers recently used a pair of powerful telescopes to zero in on a cosmic battle going on some 11 billion light-years away from us. The combatants are a pair of galaxies charging at each other over and over again, a...

Learn more about a new simulation that predicts how Neanderthals migrated from Eastern Europe to Eurasia.

Another summer, another series of hot gaming showcases. These are the space and sci-fi video games that caught our attention during this year's events.

It's more of an ambient light projector than a star projector, but the Jiawen Galaxy Projector Light is seriously impressive given its budget price.

The origin of our sun, and all the planets, comets and asteroids that orbit it, can be traced back to their birthplace inside a massive cloud of cold gas and dust, not unlike the billowing molecular cloud featured in thi...

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.

Learn about a new study that uses cemetery remains to reveal a surprising shift in the eating and migratory habits of early Central Europeans.

Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, said a draft defense appropriations bill unveiled June 9 signals bipartisan concerns that the U.S. is underinvesting in space capabilities. The...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae, leading to the most extreme ob...

Jared Isaacman has opened up on why he believes his nomination to be NASA administrator was abruptly withdrawn by the White House.

The African Space Agency was officially inaugurated in Cairo's Space City in April 2025. The event marked a milestone in a process that had been in the works since the early 2000s. Drawing inspiration from the European S...

Getting to Mars takes a really long time, about nine months using today's rocket technology. This is because regular rocket engines burn fuel and oxygen together (like a car engine), but they're not very efficient. The f...

Europe has unconditionally approved SES' plan to buy rival satellite operator Intelsat, leaving the United States as the final major regulatory hurdle in the way of the $4 billion deal. The post Europe clears SES-Intelsa...

The monster black hole lurking at the center of galaxy M87 is an absolute beast. It is one of the largest in our vicinity and was the ideal first target for the Event Horizon Telescope. Scientists have taken a fresh look...

Blue Origin is now targeting Aug. 15 at the earliest for the second-ever launch of its New Glenn rocket, a slip of several months.

NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a June 2002 spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. He was partnered with CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales)  astronaut Phili...

Just when we thought we'd learned from the past, humanity is preparing to repeat its most destructive habits--this time, in space.

A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), researchers have successfully i...