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On July 8, 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on STS-135 carrying four astronauts…

It’s a bit worrying when a scientific paper begins, “How long will life on Earth survive?” But in…

The dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, R. Tully (University of Hawaii); Image Processing: G.…

The world followed the exploits of NASA’s Artemis 2 moon mission in near real-time thanks to a high-tech…

NASA astronaut Anil Menon will be available for limited media interviews beginning at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, June…

“We threatened we would put astronauts in suits, in Dragon, to send a message to world that we…

As humans, we live out our lives on a planet that is constantly sweeping through a cosmic ocean…

Scientists may have finally seen the sun telegraph an eruption hours before it happened — and the one…

For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has found what it was looking for — on its…

With consistent, impressive leaps in observational technology, cosmology keeps running into all kinds of issues. One infamous problem…

APOD: 2026 June 14 – 10 Days of Venus and Jupiter Discover the cosmos! Each day a different…

Did you enjoy last week’s close encounter between Venus and Jupiter? Perhaps you managed to see Mercury too. This…

The International Space Station orbits Earth roughly every 90 minutes, yet for years no American spacecraft could reach it — a gap a single private company stepped in to close