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Mission managers with NASA and SpaceX polled 'go' to proceed with a launch attempt of the Crew-11 astronaut mission to the ISS on Thursday (July 31).

A possible planet may be carving the disc around the young star

Government revenue at SES surged more than 21% in the second quarter of 2025 amid accelerating demand from defense customers worldwide, the multi-orbit satellite operator announced July 31. The post SES leans into govern...

Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.

The first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object from the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87 --55 million light years from Earth. Supercomputer s...

The head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos said Thursday that he had agreed with his NASA counterpart during talks in the United States to extend the International Space Station's (ISS) operation until 2028.

Learn how the hominins consumption of grasses led to changes in their teeth around 700,000 years later.

The Sun rises on the morning of July 31, 2025, ahead of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch was postponed due to an unfavorable weather forecast. Teams are now tar...

What are some of the most oddly-shaped galaxies? Learn more about some of the Universe's unusual formations.

Deep in the heart of our galaxy lies one of the most chaotic and mysterious regions in space. Now, scientists have created the first detailed map of magnetic fields in this turbulent zone, providing crucial insights into...

Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's inner segment. Along with the observatory's Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (togethe...

A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater -- an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites.

What is space-time? Depending on how fast you're moving or how close you are do Earth's gravity can change the way time feels.

Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, which will send crypto billionaire Justin Sun and five other people to the final frontier.

SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff today (July 31) after clouds intruded.

Thick clouds prompted SpaceX to call off Thursday's planned launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.

Scientists have achieved a groundbreaking milestone by creating the first detailed map of magnetic fields in one of the most chaotic regions of space, the turbulent center of our own Milky Way. Using innovative technique...

Science is driven by our desire to understand things. In some cases, where it requires significant effort and investment to develop systems that can understand new things, science benefits from a game plan that the commu...

What is space-time? Depending on how fast you're moving or how close you are to Earth's gravity can change the way time feels.

The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.

Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's inner segment. Along with the observatory's Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (togethe...

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1.