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Venus developed a rotating detonation rocket engine with potential applications in hypersonic missiles and space launch vehicles The post Lockheed Martin Ventures invests in rocket propulsion startup Venus Aerospace appe...

The chemistry of a galaxy changes over time as generations of stars live and die, spreading the results of their nucleosynthesis out into space. But stars with different masses produce different elements, and these stars...

Footage appearing to show a number of "double fireball" events may have been caused by a simple quirk of equipment.

Astronomers working with the JWST, along with help from the Hubble, have found a red supergiant star that eventually exploded as a supernova. The discovery helps solve the 'red supergiant problem' that confounds ...

Elon Musk has hammered acting NASA chief Sean Duffy repeatedly on social media over the past few days, calling him "Sean Dummy" and claiming he's "trying to kill NASA." Here's what may be going on...

Scattering microscopic particles of sulfur in the atmosphere might slow down climate change. It might also change weather patterns.

Using high-resolution data from the one-meter New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST), a research team led by Prof. Yan Xiaoli from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has conducted an in-depth st...

Dark matter could tint light passing through it, depending on the model. While the effect is tiny, it is just on the edge of our ability to detect it.

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the longest-standing puzzles in planeta...

Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space trash that threatens aerospace safety.

A team of astronomers led by Paulo Cortes, a scientist with the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Joint ALMA Observatory, have made a groundbreaking discovery about how young s...

In a letter to Congress, museum officials have warned the shuttle may need to be partially disassembled in order to be transferred, risking irreversible damage to one of the most meticulously preserved pieces of spacefli...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white dwarf. Though Earth-sized, this dense remnant will retain much of the sun's gravitational ...

A novel imaging technique used for the first time on a ground-based telescope has helped a UCLA-led team of astronomers to achieve the sharpest-ever measurement of a star's surrounding disk, revealing previously unse...

Traditional mining expertise plus space startup innovation will equal the winning formula for lunar resource extraction. The post The lunar mining gold rush is coming - and success requires bridging two worlds appeared f...

Vantors space-to-space intelligence business is also known as non-Earth imagery The post Vantor satellites track space objects in blind spots inaccessible to military ground sensors appeared first on SpaceNews.

New satellite imagery from the European Space Agency reveals nearly four decades of dramatic ice loss for two of Patagonia's largest glaciers.

SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk hurled insults at NASAs acting administrator a day after complaints that the company was behind schedule on its Artemis lunar lander. The post Musk criticizes Duffy amid NASA leadership d...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies.

The congestion and pollution of Earth orbit is quickly getting worse. We need to be able to quantify how our behaviour impacts the orbital environment in the future. To this end, the European Space Agency (ESA) is adding...

A radio pulsar is like a cosmic lighthouse, a highly dense, rapidly rotating star that emits beams of radio waves. If Earth happens to be in the path, a "pulse" of radio waves will be detected.

Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet's equator, a new study finds.