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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted surprising honeycomb-like shapes in the Red Planet soil while exploring a large valley.

Mars dust is known to contain various carcinogens, such as silica and numerous heavy metals. How will future astronauts mitigate the health risks?

Blue Origin has traced the explosion of its New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test in May to a valve in the rockets BE-4 engine. The post New Glenn explosion linked to rocket engine valve appeared first on SpaceNews....

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A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature. Fast facts Sci...

Early this morning, a SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon at seven times the speed of sound. Now, lunar orbiters are trying to get a look at the aftermath.

Technicians joined the Orion crew and service modules together on July 30, 2026, inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew module will carry and sustain...

Researchers from Kyushu University have discovered that diffuse gas surrounding dense filaments in a nearby stellar nursery plays a much larger role in star formation than previously recognized. By tracking the movement ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded contracts to Capella Space, Iceye U.S. and Umbra to expand the U.S. governments use of commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The [] The post Capella, Ic...

Astronomers have captured the death of a massive star from its first faint flash of X-rays, revealing an unusual supernova.

Description This composite of seven images from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASAs Perseverance Mars rover shows Earth, visible as a small bright dot moving from upper left to lower right, passing behind the Martian m...

Earth and the Martian moon Phobos dance together in a series of images recently acquired by NASAs Perseverance Mars rover. Earth appears as a point of light in the Martian sky, disappearing behind the crescent of Phobos,...

Black holes are fascinating regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, even light, can escape them. The largest known black holes, called supermassive black holes, contain millions to billions of times the...

Astronomers have speculated about the mysterious "little red dots" seen through the James Webb Space Telescope's images of the early universe: They could be galaxies, black holes, quasi-stars, starbursts or s...

Using observations from multiple powerful telescopes, a team of astronomers studied a red quasar nicknamed "the Hatchling" at redshift 3.7. They may have identified one of the clearest examples yet of a quasar ca...

On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. Here's why it mattered.

The International Space Station hosts hundreds of science experiments at a time. Some experiments can take hours to perform, and researchers need to account for astronauts limited time. Fully automated devices, like Redw...

You might think of rockets as powerful vehicles that blast astronaut crews and robotic missions into space. But what if they could be used to send cargo from one side of Earth to the other in a fraction of the time it wo...

The mood was celebratory at the ribbon-cutting for Muon Spaces San Jose, California, manufacturing facility in June. State, local, United States Space Force and Pentagon representatives lauded the startup and, [] The pos...

Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi may not be the Star Wars TV show you were looking for, but it's something the franchise desperately needed.

In March 2026, the Einstein Probe detected a brief flash of soft X-rays emitted from a galaxy about 500 million light-years away. The flash, dubbed EP260321a, immediately triggered a worldwide observing campaign. Within ...

A piece of a SpaceX rocket weighing four tonnes (4.4 tons) was believed to have unintentionally crashed into the moon on Wednesday, a collision that posed no danger to Earth but is expected to leave behind a lunar crater...