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Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror.

The turning point seems to have been after 2008, which had the lowest amount of solar activity on record.

Speaking at the AMOS Conference, Saltzman calls for industry partnerships to accelerate capabilities in space domain awareness The post Space Force chief: Current satellite tracking too slow for modern threats appeared f...

Researchers have dated the appearance of microbial life in a 78 million year old impact crater. Life colonized the fractured hydrothermal system the impact created, and thrived for millions of years. It could do the same...

You know, if you take away the lack of air and water, the weaker Sun, the lower gravity, and the toxic soil, Mars isnt all that bad of a place to live.

It seems like most of the planets have fled the evening scene. But thats about to change this week. Saturn reaches opposition on Sunday, September 21st, passing closest to the Earth at just over 8.5 Astronomical Units (A...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged an extremely large and symmetric protostellar jet at the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. From tip to tip, this protostellar jet is 8 light-years across, about doub...

Artemis 2 astronauts will be the subjects of nearly as many experiments as they'll be performing during their trip around the moon.

NASAs Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket poised to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon next year may appear identical to the Artemis I SLS rocket. On closer inspection, though, engineers...

Alien objects may be seeding the universe. Here's what that means.

Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, head of the Space Systems Command, said the restructuring - centered on System Deltas that pair acquisition officers with operational commanders - is progressing at a fast pace. The post Space Fo...

A new study suggests that a group of cells, key for the health of blood and the immune system, are vulnerable to aging-like processes after spending time on the ISS.

"It's been fantastic to watch 'Foundation' become such a global phenomenon, with fans tuning in from every corner of the world."

Technicians completed integrating NASAs Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) satellite to an Evolved Expendable Lau...

With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The total sea ice ...

The moon is near new phase this week, and clearer skies and cooler overnight temperatures means that this is also an optimum week to check out the beautiful summer Milky Way.

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching from a disc around a neutron star and those from material circling supermassive black holes. T...

The official number of exoplanets-planets outside our solar system-tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, so no single planet i...

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal Planetarium in Canada. The te...

Watch live as a potentially hazardous asteroid makes a close flyby of Earth on Sept. 18.

See breathtaking images of September's blood moon total lunar eclipse from Egypt.

The fledgling small geostationary satellite manufacturing market is splitting across a spectrum of vertical integration strategies as companies weigh sovereignty, speed and scale in reshaping space-based communications. ...