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In what seemed to be a development that came from nowhere, there's a new entrant into the reusable launch systems competition--Honda. The giant Japanese industrial conglomerate recently launched a prototype reusable rock...

Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission - marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth's forests are changing...

SpaceX had reset the countdown clock for its next human spaceflight, but a NASA decision has forced another delay of the private Axiom Space Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station.

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SpaceX launched 70 different payloads -- including a special memorial capsule carrying cremated remains and DNA samples -- today (June 23) on the Transporter 14 rideshare mission.

Learn more about the new study which suggests humans had to adapt to different environments within the African continent before being able to successfully migrate out of it.

New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.

A consortium of Ukrainian, Nordic and eastern European companies is hoping to raise more than 100 million euros ($115 million) to build a constellation of 70-plus imagery satellites that would provide intelligence along ...

Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas.

I can recall the excitement of waiting for the first CCD Image I had taken to download, THAT was exciting. I was using a Starlight Express MX716 for those who can remember. This however is far more exciting. The Vera C. ...

If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would threaten satellites and create a spectacular meteor shower, according to researchers.

The impacts of space weather such as extreme solar winds and magnetic waves are not limited to outer space. Bursts of plasma emanating from the sun, for instance, can temporarily intensify electric and magnetic fields on...

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only from orbit. The images and data being collected are already raising new questions about how th...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in Australia has found that a mysterious fast radio burst (FRB) detected last year originated not from a distant source, but from one circlin...

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is situated just 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). I...

Demonstration Motor-1 (DM-1) is the first full-scale ground test of the evolved five-segment solid rocket motor of NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The event will take place in Promontory, Utah, and will be used ...

The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday (June 23) -- and included a special asteroid bonus.

Discover the first images from NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory and learn about what it's new mission is for space.

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large telescopes.

The NASA Science Activation program's Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways (NESSP) team has successfully concluded the 2024-2025 Artemis ROADS III National Challenge, an educational competition that brought real N...

Researchers at the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht have observed the formation of nanocavities in montmorillonite clay under exposure to gamma-aminobutyric acid, a molecule commonly found on meteorites. This hither...

The rover recently drilled a sample from a new region with features that could reveal whether Mars' subsurface once provided an environment suitable for life. New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first cl...