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NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) detected three rocky planets around the M-dwarf L 98-59 in 2019. While two are expected to be hot, rocky worlds, the third could be covered by a global ocean. A fourth ...

Learn about the migration routes that ancient humans took when traveling out of Africa and how rising sea levels may have sunk an Egyptian city.

A Vega C rocket is scheduled to launch the MicroCarb carbon dioxide mapper and four Earth-observation satellites tonight from South America, and you can watch it live.

NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. A truly global endeavor, the International Space Station has been visited by more than 280 people from 23 countrie...

Learn more about the nectocaridid, an ancient marine creature that looks like a squid but actually belongs to a family of formerly fierce, predatory worms.

The four members of SpaceX's Crew-10 mission on the Expedition 73 crew began packing for home, while also calling down to Earth to share their ongoing work aboard the ISS.

Unlike other superhero superstars, the Fanastic Four have traditionally struggled with the transition to the big screen.

Learn more about what life was like for Paleolithic peoples, especially children and adolescences of thousands of years ago.

Crew-11 will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 31 atop a Falcon 9 rocket, if all goes to plan.

In this bonus edition of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Robyn Gatens, NASA's Director for the International Space Station, live at the AIAA Ascend conference in Las Vegas on the status of the International S...

In a stretch of California's Mojave Desert, NASA conducted a full-scale "dress rehearsal" to prepare how it will measure the noise generated by the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft. The team behind the successful ...

NASA invites the public to participate as virtual guests in the launch of the agency's SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Explor...

Blue Origin has announced the payload for the first-ever flight of its Blue Ring spacecraft --Scout Space's Owl space domain awareness sensor.

Senegal has officially joined the Artemis Accords, becoming the 56th nation -- and the fourth African country -- to commit to a shared vision for peaceful and transparent space exploration.

A new study led by researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a neural network-based method for large-scale celestial object classification, according to a paper recently p...

Blue Origin will fly the first mission of its Blue Ring spacecraft next spring carrying a space situational awareness payload from Scout Space. The post Blue Origin to fly first Blue Ring spacecraft in spring 2026 appear...

Week in images: 21-25 July 2025 Discover our week through the lens

NASA currently leads the nation's planetary defense efforts, but some are calling for the Space Force to take control.

Just a short distance inland from the waves crashing against California's shore, NASA's Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) CubeSat mission launched into the sky, taking off at 2:13 p.m. ET on July 23 from Vand...

Scientists have created the largest catalogue of exploding stars ever assembled, and it's telling us something surprising about the mysterious force driving our universe apart. After analyzing over 2,000 stellar explosio...

Every time a spacecraft touches down on the moon, it creates a spectacular but dangerous light show of dust and debris that could threaten future lunar bases. Now, after decades of mystery, scientists have finally figure...

Recreating the environment that most spacecraft experience on their missions is difficult on Earth. Many times it involves large vacuum chambers or wind tunnels that are specially designed for certain kinds of tests. But...