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The UK Space Agency has announced an agreement with Vast-a US commercial space company-that could send British astronaut John McFall into orbit as early as 2027. If the mission goes ahead, he would become the first perso...

Sulfur is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. If you peer into a diffuse interstellar cloud, you find loads of it-about the amount expected based on fusion patterns in the stars it was born in. However, if...

A debate has been raging among planetary scientists for more than a decade-why are there so few exoplanets with a radius of about 1.8 times that of Earth? Exoplanets are currently largely grouped into two distinct catego...

Venus extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation was likely caused by a chance encounter with a moon-sized impactor. One that some 4.5 billion years ago likely slammed into our sister planet at a high angle and high veloci...

If we're to reach another star, chemical propulsion will not get us there in any reasonable time frame. We're going to need a different propulsion technology, and one of the most promising seems to be a solar sai...

Written in the 1860s, Jules Vernes novels "From the Earth to the Moon" and "All Around the Moon" were highly speculative fiction in their time, but tell a tale that now seems remarkably familiar: three as...

The nights surrounding the new moon on June 14 are the perfect time to hunt for planets and sparkling constellations in the late spring sky.

"We were totally amazed when we noticed this mass and size range of planet formation."

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our galaxy. A paper describing these new findings was published in The A...