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In a historic first, an unspecified medical issue is prompting an early return from the International Space Station on Wednesday night, January 14th. And while the return will be featured live online from undocking to sp...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Jan. 13 hearing underscored the importance of ongoing collaboration between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. armed services. U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy witnesses...

2026 sees Starfleet Academy and a new season of Strange New Worlds enter the Star Trek universe, so now is the time to save big on Paramount Plus and a VPN.

"If they were purely made up of stars, they would be the densest galaxies in the universe."

Chinese commercial firm CAS Space launched its first Lihong-1 suborbital flight and recovery test mission, seeing a successful parachute descent of the capsule. The post CAS Space conducts first suborbital launch and cap...

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries."

How solid is our understanding of exoplanet habitability? Are the ideas of an Optimistic Habitable Zone and a Conservative Habitable Zone sufficient to advance our understanding? New research introduces an expanded exopl...

"It's hopeful about the future, and we need that optimistic enthusiasm right now."

The New York-Newark-Jersey City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which spans 23 counties across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and has a population of about 19.9 million, is pictured at approximately 3:29 a.m. local...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying 29 Starlink satellites launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.

When President John F. Kennedy stood before Congress in May 1961 and declared that the United States would land a man on the moon before the decades end, his purpose was not to invent the space program, but to impose a c...

Brief, brilliant flashes of blue light occasionally appear across the universe, burning hundreds of times brighter than ordinary supernovae before fading within days. Astronomers have puzzled over these luminous fast blu...

Two towering buildings that helped launch humanity's greatest space achievements came down on January 10 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Centre in Alabama. The Dynamic Test Stand and the T-tower, both designated ...

For decades, astronomers believed that the most massive stars in the universe lived fast and died quietly, collapsing directly into black holes without the spectacular fireworks of a supernova explosion. That understandi...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold.

If you stayed in a hotel last night, theres a good chance you saw that familiar placard in the bathroom: Help save the planet - hang your towel and we wont wash it. At a recent panel, I asked the audience how many had se...

There is a fundamental tension in space exploration that has created ongoing debates for decades. By creating the infrastructure we need to explore other worlds, we damage them in some way, making them either less scient...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch missions aimed at findi...

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising questions about how the early universe evolved.

Boulder-based startup plans 2026 demonstrations tied to space domain awareness The post ThinkOrbital raises seed funding to advance X-ray space inspection appeared first on SpaceNews.

What exists beneath the surface of Jupiters icy moon, Callisto? This is what a recent study accepted by The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the subsurface composition of C...

Read this press release in Englishhere. La temperatura global de la superficie terrestre en 2025 fue un poco más cálida que en 2023 pero, dentro de los márgenes de error, ambos años está prácticamente empatados, se...