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It's a date: SpaceX set for world’s first all-civilian spaceflight

It will all be for charity, paid for by a US entrepreneur.

NASA’s Perseverance rover drills a rock on Mars on its second attempt

The rover arrived in February on the Red Planet

China releases stunning Mars photos to celebrate 100 days on the red planet

The mission seems to be going according to plan.

The James Webb telescope is now ready to be shipped

It's one of the most exciting projects in modern science -- and it's ready to hit the stage.

Astronomers discover 'Hycean' planets that may support life

Although they're much larger and hotter than Earth, these Hycean worlds may have oceans that could host microbial life.

Astronomers discover the fastest orbiting asteroid

The asteroid 2021 PH27 is the closest asteroid to the Sun with a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead and completes an orbit in just 113 days.

Satellite images show the massive extent of August's wildfires

Fires are ravaging many parts of the world.

Russian space junk knocks out Chinese satellite

The Russians apparently have been unintentionally playing the galactic version of bumper cars. It has been reported that the Chinese satellite Yunhai 1-02 broke apart into several pieces in March after it whacked into space junk from part of a Russian Zenit-2 rocket. Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell spotted the wreckage recently in a data log […]

Odds of asteroid Bennu hitting the Earth are greater than we thought. Here's why you shouldn't worry

... because the overall odds are still very low.

Astronomers Spot an Exoplanet with Half the Mass of Venus

It's one of the smallest exoplanets found thus far

Martian buried lakes may actually just be clay

It's still pretty neat... but not as exciting as water.

The International Space Station was briefly knocked out of position by a Russian module

Everybody is fine and we've put it back in place.

What is gravitational lensing -- and how it helped prove Einstein right

Massive objects become the astrophysicists’ extra lenses.

Hubble finds water vapor on Jupiter's moon Ganymede

Our solar system just keeps getting more interesting.

Ingenuity has flown a full mile over Mars, and broken its altitude record

Our first Mars helicopter is busy growing into its own.

AI helps NASA look at the Sun with new eyes

Hindsight is 20/20 -- and so is a telescope equipped with AI.

NASA's InSight probe peers into the heart of Mars, sees Earth-like layers

Earthquakes passing through the planet's depths reveal bits about its structure -- but we're just scratching the surface.

Astronomers find moon-forming disk around exoplanet

The revolving disk holds enough matter to seed three moons the size of Earth's.

InSight maps Mars' composition and chunky core for the first time

Thanks to NASA's InSight Mars mission we now have a good picture of the interior of another planet.

Hubble is finally back! Here are its first photos since its shutdown

For the first time in over a month, Hubble is able to snap new images of the universe.

Crumbled comet helps researchers understand how their tails form

It roughly overlaps their wake through solar wind.

Jeff Bezos reaches space, makes it back in one piece

“Best day ever,” Bezos said after landing.

Neutron Stars Make Ant Hills Out of Mountains

New research has shown that mountains on the surface of neutron stars could be millimetres tall.

Blue Origin picks teenager to fly to space with Jeff Bezos

He will be the youngest person to travel to space

Scientists develop AI to identify holes in the Sun’s corona

A reliable way to detect coronal holes using CHRONNOS.

Changes in moon's 'wobble' could cause record floods in 2030

The moon wobbles in roughly 18-year cycles like a rocking ship as it orbits Earth. Next cycle could exacerbate rising sea levels due to climate change, which may lead to 3-4 times more days with floods in US coastlines.

Space rice feeds new space race: China is getting serious

The space rice is here.

"Impact gardening" on Jupiter's satellite Europa shows we need to dig deep for signs of alien life

Under its icy surface, Europa could have the right conditions for life to emerge.

The billionaire space race is upon us -- and there's an early leader

The long-promised space tourism “business” is now officially a thing, and Richard Branson is (for now) the leading figure.

Methane on Enceladus could be a sign of Earth-like hydrothermal vents, including microbes

We're not saying there's life on Enceladus... but there *could be* life on Enceladus.

Flying on Mars: NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is the gift that keeps on giving

Ingenuity took a daring shortcut on its record-breaking 9th flight on the Red Planet.

China wants to practice deflecting an asteroid with rockets

Not everyone is thrilled, though: one such rocket recently plummeted back to Earth in uncontrolled re-entry.

Bezos picks aerospace pioneer Wally Funk to join him on space flight

They are scheduled to launch on July 20 on the New Shepard rocket

Study dismisses possibility of life in the clouds of Venus

Don't worry, there could still be life in the clouds of other planets

Neutron Star and Black Hole's Final Dance Observed for the First Time

You wait ages to spot a merger between a neutron star and a black hole and then the two come along at once.

Scientists peer back in time to find the birth of the first stars

Call it the Cosmic Dawn.

Alien observers from 1,700 star systems could already be aware that there's life on Earth

Researchers estimate that 29 of those are potentially habitable.

What if the Earth was made of blueberries?

Supposed the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries. What happens?

We now know the largest spinning objects in the universe

Welcome to the world of spinning cosmic filaments.

China just launched three astronauts to its new space station module

The entire station should be finished by 2022 if all goes to plan.

Chaotic Young Star System Holds the Key to Planet Formation

By directly measuring the mass of a protoplanetary disc, astronomers have begun to unravel the mystery of planet formation.

Astronomers Solve the Mystery of Betelgeuse's 'Great Dimming'

Astronomers are no longer in the dark about the dimming of Betegeuse.

Scientists publish the first 3D map of the heliosphere -- the final boundary between our system and interstellar space

It will help scientists better understand interactions between solar and interstellar winds.

Space pups: mouse sperm stored on International Space Station produces healthy offspring

There are no superpowers but also no genetic damage.

Blinking Giant Star is a Mystery at the Heart of the Milky Way

A mysterious blinking giant star found at the heart of the Milky Way represents another example of a rare eclipsing binary system.

Our most sophisticated radio telescope found over 500 radio signals in the sky in a year

There could be hundreds of such events, unnoticed, every day.

How did the Oort cloud form? A new simulation reveals its origins

A "sea" of clouds from our neighbouring stars and the giant planets’ orbital resonance could explain how it was formed.

Galactic neighbourhoods have an influence on stellar nurseries

A newly conducted in-depth cosmic census has revealed that star-forming molecular clouds come in an array of shapes and sizes.

Chandra X-ray and MeerKAT data reveal a busy galactic center

The study found magnetic phenomena in the center of the Milky Way that resemble those in our solar system

NASA’s Juno to make closest flyby to Jupiter’s largest moon

It will provide information about the Moon's composition, ice shell, ionosphere and magnetosphere.

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