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The worlds of the Solar System offer up exciting and (so far) mostly pristine places for planetary scientists to study. As space missions continue to travel to Mars, Europa, asteroids, and other worlds, questions keep co...

SpaceX's Starship super-rocket deployed operational next-generation Starlink satellites for the first time during its 13th flight test, which addressed snags that arose in the previous test.

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with international collaborators, carried out the first spatially resolved dual-frequency spectral study of the M87 blac...

A compact, automated smart telescope with a higher resolution upgrade

In democracies, opinion polls are one of the most common ways to measure public and therefore political support for an issue. Because space exploration is still closely tied to the government policy and funding, public o...

Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has so far meant primarily focusing on one particular type of signal - and that signal has normally been based on what our own current cutting edge technology is. But what if t...

'The minute we started talking about doing dinosaurs, we were like, 'Yeah, lets figure out a way to do that.''

'The minute we started talking about doing dinosaurs, we were like, 'Yeah, lets figure out a way to do that.''

Juno's Microwave Radiometer (MWR) was built peer deep down into Jupiter's massive atmosphere. But during the spacecraft's extended mission, it's been studying the Galilean moons. During two flybys of volc...

From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a July 18, 2026, photo while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International S...

NASA is working with industry to advance the next phase of cislunar infrastructure for the agencys Artemis program and Moon Base, including orbital assets and demonstrations. Under a contract awarded to Advanced Space, t...

The subsurface findings could transform how scientists study volcanoes across the solar system - including those on Earth.

NASA and Blue Origin announced Friday they recently agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the companys New Glenn rocket on the B-2 test stand at the agencys Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississi...

PERTH, Australia - 24 July 2026 - LatConnect 60 (LC60), an Australian satellite Earth observation and AI company, today unveiled a proprietary intelligence-fusion capability that leverages the latest advancements in [] T...

ESA's Plato spacecraft completes critical testing ahead of its spaceflight.

Ancient samples from the moon's far side are helping scientists uncover how asteroid impacts shaped the early solar system. The findings challenge decades of thinking about when those impacts occurred and offer new i...

How to use the Summer Triangle stars - Vega, Deneb and Altair - as a key to unlock your understanding of the night sky.

Lightning struck a Chinese Long March-3B rocket shortly after liftoff this week, but the launch still successfully placed its satellite payload in orbit.

Lightning struck a Chinese Long March-3B rocket shortly after liftoff this week, but the launch still successfully placed its satellite payload in orbit.

The Commerce Department is moving ahead with plans to implement a voluntary mission authorization system for novel space activities that are not regulated by other agencies. The post Office of Space Commerce to move ahea...

Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons, has long fascinated scientists because of what may lie beneath its frozen shell: a global ocean of liquid water. That hidden ocean has made Europa one of the most compelling places...

Tune in today, July 24, at 1:30 p.m. ET for a LIVE This Week In Space taping to mark the 50th anniversary of the Viking landings on Mars.