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NASA has announced a new launch date for the private Axiom astronaut launch to the ISS, following delays due to leaks aboard the space station.

Learn more about a sequence of increases in the carbon dioxide in our ancient atmosphere, which can tell us about our oceans' future.

Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per second while beaming radio waves across the universe. These are pulsars, the collapsed cores of...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars. In the process, they've also discovered that our galaxy's structure is more complex than ever...

A new solar observing telescope on the exterior of the International Space Station is open for business. NASA recently released images from the newly commissioned Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) mounted on the stat...

The observed exoplanet population contains a large number of solar systems where multiple exoplanets follow short orbital periods. The most well-known example of a compact solar system is the TRAPPIST-1 system. There are...

Miguel Claro captured the Orion Constellation glowing red due to hydrogen gas, as seen from the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve in Portugal.

Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet's largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025.

India, Poland and Hungary are set to send people to space for the first time in decades on an American commercial mission to the International Space Station that blasts off Wednesday.

Japanese company ispace lost its Resilience lunar lander this month due to laser range finder errors, the company said.

President Trump's recent bombing of Iran's nuclear sites marks a major turning point in the maintenance of global security. With war again erupting in the Middle East, the United States […] The post A strategy for peac...

Iceland is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world, but its seismic nature is part of a much broader geological history.

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems that are "just right."

Slam Corp, the shell company founded by former MLB player Alex Rodriguez, is suing Lynk Global to stop the direct-to-smartphone satellite operator from walking away from their long-delayed merger. The post Lynk Global's ...

On June 26, you'll have an opportunity to behold the sight of a slender waxing crescent moon positioned just to the right of Mercury.

NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are targeting 2:31 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 25, for launch of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4. The mission will lift off from Launch...

Everything in space--from Earth and the sun to black holes--accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of the cosmos seems to be made of an invisible material astronomers call dark matter.

Chinese astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe an eclipsing binary of the Algol-type, designated V455 Car. Results of the observational campaign are published in the jour...

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman inspects her spacesuit's wrist mirror in this portrait taken at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 22, 2024. Cardman will launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA...

The world's largest digital camera focuses on the Virgo Cluster, showing never-before-seen detail in our universe

Associated with the infamous King Tut's curse, a deadly spore may now be turned into a potent leukemia treatment.

June 24, 2025 NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, has paused observations due to a problem with one of the motors that drives its ability to t...