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In 2028, Hong Kong will launch its first dedicated lunar orbiter not to study craters or map minerals, but to monitor something far more urgent, the constant barrage of meteoroids slamming into the Moon's surface at ...

ESA wrapped up the first day of a critical ministerial conference sounding upbeat about progress in securing funding for the next three years, despite a few warning signs. The post ESA on good track to secure funding des...

Beneath the frozen shells of Saturn's tiny moons, hidden oceans might occasionally boil, not from heat, but from dropping pressure as ice melts from below. This strange phenomenon could explain the bizarre geology of...

Seven billion year old meteorites carrying DNA building blocks. Frozen water on Mars. Amino acids floating in interstellar dust clouds. After seventy years of searching, we've found the ingredients for life scattered...

Whether it's extra-terrestrial invaders or a nightmare of our own creation, sci-fi often calls us to action.

Paramount Plus is just $2.99 a month for two months this Black Friday, meaning you can stream the new season of Starfleet Academy and all Star Trek content.

SmartSky Networks does not plan to seek an injunction to block Gogos 5G air-to-ground rollout across the United States, despite prevailing in a patent-infringement lawsuit tied to the technology. The post SmartSky wont b...

Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen details of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula, in this image released on Oct. 26, 2025. NIRCam is Webb'...

SpaceX called off the planned launch of 140 satellites atop a used Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday (Nov. 26) in California.

Astronauts on the International Space Station just shared their Thanksgiving meal plans. Like many Americans, they will welcome guests - if a launching Soyuz crew arrives in time.

In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, NASAs Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agencys SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in ...

Image: Ministers and high-level representatives gather for ESA's Ministerial Council

The JWST has done it again. It's revealed new details hidden from lesser telescopes. The space telescope has detected four spiral dust shells around Apep, a triple star system about 15,000 light-years away.

The Butterfly Nebula is a preview of the fate that will befall the sun in about 5 billion years.

BREMEN, Germany - As the 23 member states of the European Space Agency meet this week to decide its budget for the next three years, its three major contributors - Germany, France and Italy - are signaling they will heav...

Launched just a little over three months ago, Copernicus Sentinel-5A has returned its first images - including a global map of ozone, maps of nitrogen dioxide over the Middle East and South Africa, formaldehyde over part...

The first high-resolution images have been received from Copernicus Sentinel-1D and were shared publicly for the first time at the European Space Agencys Ministerial Council, held today in Bremen, Germany. Glaciers in An...

South Korea lofted the CAS500-3 Earth-observation satellite and a dozen ride-along cubesats Wednesday (Nov. 26) on the fourth-ever launch of its Nuri rocket.

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly.

Two perplexing structures deep inside Earth might be ancient remnants of our early planet, and they could hold clues about the origin of life.

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Image: Ministers and high-level representatives for ESA's Ministerial Council.