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Researchers utilized 30 years of Landsat satellite imagery to analyze the color and spectral signatures of Adélie penguin guano across Antarctica, marking the first time space-based observations have captured food-web a...

SpaceX aborted Flight 13 of its giant Starship rocket at the last second on Thursday (July 16). It's unclear when the company will try again.

The Republic of Serbia signed the Artemis Accords Thursday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agencys Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 69th nation to join a large community of like-minded nations committed t...

NEW YORK - A study published last week in Nature Astronomy has proposed a new satellite design and technique to detect thermonuclear warheads in space. Funded in part by the [] The post Nature study identifies a new way ...

Evidence for landslides down steep crater walls on Pluto have been found in imagery from NASA's New Horizons mission.

A team of astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b - the first planet discovered in the same system - and is a...

New research led by scientists at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by precisely tracking its motion through space and using powerful observa...

"It's in the habitable zone, which is super exciting for astrobiology and habitability and searching for life."

SpaceX has stacked the two stages of its giant Starship rocket ahead of the Flight 13 test launch, which is scheduled to occur this evening (July 16).

"Hawking's laws of black hole mechanics provided a satisfying connection between extreme and ordinary physics and have been the paradigm for 50 years, but they have a serious limitation."

Move fast enough and the entire universe compresses into a searing, blueshifted cone of light aimed at your face. How relativistic aberration and the Doppler effect warp your view of the cosmos as you approach lightspeed...

The 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam) captures a vibrant scene filled with swirls and stars reminiscent of Van Gogh's The Starry Night. This new cosmic masterpiece features the ...

DIU solicitation aims to move long-studied technology toward military use by fiscal 2030 The post Defense Innovation Unit seeks commercial path to deliver electrical power from orbit appeared first on SpaceNews.

Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess, to be the next chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force, testified July 16 before the Senate Armed Services Committee in a confirmation hearing The post Trumps pick to lead Space Force ...

Valoria la Buena, here we come.

NASAs James Webb Space Telescope takes us 4.4 billion years in the past with this July 3, 2026, image of a young galaxy cluster, MACS J0553.4-3342. The cluster is composed of two actively merging sub-clusters, roughly eq...

Nearly a decade after the discovery of LHS 1140b, a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of a nearby low-mass star, a new study reveals that the object may have its own atmosphere.

In a major milestone in the search for life on other planets, astronomers have detected, for the first time, an atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star. The f...

That is quite a view.

Expedition Sound is a podcast series by the European Space Agency (ESA) in which youre invited to explore the Universe through your ears. Guided by sonifications - the translation of data into sound - host Zsófi Szalav�...

The Office of Space Commerce defended its proposal for a mission authorization scheme for novel space activities, arguing it would provide certainty for companies while limiting regulatory burdens. The post Office of Spa...

Two major mysteries in science, the nature of dark matter and the possible existence of higher dimensions, could be linked, new research suggests.