If we ever intend to send crewed missions to Mars, as NASA and China plan for the...
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File: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base...
When the James Webb Space Telescope pointed its powerful instruments toward the early Universe, scientists were surprised...
Russia’s Progress M-35 makes its final approach to the International Space Station. Image: NASA.An unpiloted Russian Progress...
Today, the Green Bank Observatory remains a key site in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) --...
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Mars lies just a few degrees south of Pollux, one of the heads of Gemini the Twins,...
During the eight years since it was launched, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made six close flybys...
Oxidized iron dominates the Martian colour palette. The dusty reds, ochres, browns, and tans give the planet...
The Sun is such a constant in our lives that it can be difficult to imagine our...
IRVINE, Calif. and TORINO, Italy – Sept. 17, 2026 – Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin company and...
Gerald Rhemann, taken from Farm Tivoli, Namibia Comet 220P/McNaught, a Jupiter-family comet on a 5.5-year orbit, appears...
NGC 7243 is a rich open cluster located in Lacerta the Lizard. Credit: Egres73/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA...
If some aspects of cosmic topology turn out to be true, the idea that starships might voyage...
Friday, September 18First Quarter Moon occurs at 4:44 P.M. EDT. The Moon then reaches apogee, the farthest...
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of researchers decoded the weather...
Stars go through a host of changes as they evolve, but most of the time, those changes...