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Watch the ESA Council information session
NASA's Perseverance rover's first sample collection didn't go as planned due to trouble with a "unique" and unexpectedly powdery Mars rock.
Hubble Space Telescope spots 'grand design' galaxy in stunning new image
Model rocket maker Estes has unveiled its newest expert-level rocket the DARC-1, as the latest addition to their Space Corps line just in time for the last days of summer.
Two planes report 'bright green UFO' swooping through the clouds over Canada
Scanning through data fresh off the telescope, we saw two ghosts dancing deep in the cosmos.
Watery graves: Should we be ditching big spacecraft over Earth's oceans?
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Reality splinters in new featurette for Marvel's 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' (video)
The Moon waxes from first quarter to gibbous in the evening sky, offering some of its most interesting telescopic aspects. Venus grows more insistent in the western twilight. And Jupiter and especially Saturn pose well in the southeast to south by late evening.
In 'Horizons,' a discarded global view of science shines
Boeing's Starliner capsule is still under repair as the company works to figure out what's going on with its faulty valves.
5,000 exoplanets! NASA confirms big milestone for planetary science
While flying over the Red Planet for the 11th time last week, the little helicopter caught a view of its "mothership" — NASA's Perseverance rover
Ukrainian aerospace student leaves lab to keep military tech in top shape
it’s the game's 17th free expansion.
Satellite images show fires and rubble in Mariupol after devastating Russian attack
Astronomers think they have established a new way to calculate the size of supermassive black holes: by studying the feeding patterns of these invisible giants.
4 planets align over Manhattan in dazzling Good Friday parade (photo)
You'll have to wait two more years for a great "shooting star" show in August.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wants to clean up space junk with new company
The annual Perseid meteor shower, one of the best displays of "shooting stars" this year, put on a spectacular show for skywatchers around the world.
Humanity needs a space-rescue capability, report stresses
As we all anticipate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) later this year (hopefully), LEGO designers are hoping for a “launch” of their own. A new LEGO design of JWST is currently gathering supporters on the LEGO Ideas website. If it gets enough support, LEGO will review it and possibly create it.
Watch the BepiColombo probe zoom by Venus on its way to Mercury in this new video
The close Venus flyby provided the perfect opportunity to test some BepiColombo's instruments before its first encounter with Mercury in October.
Cygnus supply ship arrives at space station with four tons of cargo
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus supply ship arrives at the International Space Station on Thursday. Credit: Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA
Closing out a 36-hour flight from a launch pad in Virginia, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station Thursday with a host of biomedical experiments, supplies for a 3D printing tech demo, fresh food, and spare parts.
Rocky Planet Found With Only Half the Mass of Venus
When it comes to finding exoplanets, size matters, but so does weight. The larger and heavier the planet, the more likely they will be discovered by the current crop of telescopes. Both the techniques to find exoplanets and the telescopes using those techniques are biased toward larger, heavier planets. So when even the current crop of telescopes manages to find one that is about half the mass of Venus, it is cause for celebration. That is precisely the size of the planet a team from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has found orbiting a star called L98-59.
Wildfires ravage Greek island of Evia
Image: Parts of the Mediterranean and central Europe have experienced extreme temperatures this summer, with wildfires causing devastation on the Greek island of Evia. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows the extent of the burned area in the northern part of the island.
Curiosity Might Not Be In An Ancient Lake At All
Photos can’t do some places justice – nor can any level of sophisticated remote sensing. That seems to be the case for Gale Crater. Curiosity has been wandering around the crater for almost the last nine years. Scientists thought Gale crater was an old lakebed, and it was specifically chosen as a landing site to allow Curiosity to collect samples from such a lakebed. But new research from scientists at the University of Hong Kong shows that most likely, the samples Curiosity has been analyzing during its sojourn didn’t actually form in a lake.
Cygnus cargo ship arrives at International Space Station with its biggest NASA haul ever
A Northrop Grumman-built Cygnus cargo ship just made its biggest delivery yet for NASA at the International Space Station.
Elon Musk's SpaceX may launch a tiny Canadian satellite that livestreams ads from space: report
SpaceX plans to launch a Canadian advertisement-beaming satellite into space that will eventually accept payments in Dogecoin, according to a media report.
Space travel for billionaires is the surprise topic with bipartisan American support — but not from Gen Z
With Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson both flying to space in craft made by their own private companies, July 2021 was perhaps the highest-profile month for space in years.
