Minutes after SpaceX's Sept. 28 Starlink launch lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station (VSFS), in California, the Falcon 9 rocket supporting the mission reached the upper atmosphere to create ...

A fleet of ball-shaped rovers could drift across the Martian surface like tumbleweed, driven simply by the wind. Wind speeds on Mars are high enough to blow fleets of large spherical rovers that ...

Emmy Award-winning actress Cherry Jones is known for her signature work on iconic TV shows like "The West Wing" and "24," but her most recent performance has been in Apple TV+'s future galaxy of " ...

Bian Zhigang, vice administrator of CNSA, outlined a number of recent successes, including the Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 moon sample-return missions, some of the material from which has been sent to ...

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The first stage of the rocket that Firefly was prepping to make Alpha's seventh-ever flight exploded on Monday (Sept. 29) during a preflight trial.

NASA is bracing for the possibility of a federal government shutdown if Congress fails to pass a funding bill –– a recurring crisis that grinds activity to a halt across most civilian agencies in the ...

Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou 20 mission installed additional shielding on Tiangong during a six-hour spacewalk on Friday (Sept. 26), according to the state-run broadcaster CCTV. It ...

From twinkling constellations to stellar life cycles, this starry skywatching quiz will test your cosmic knowledge.

The algorithm models the blurring incurred by Earth's atmosphere and counteracts it, producing sharp and clear images.

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up the dusk sky over southern California on Sunday (Sept. 28) as it carried a new stack of 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.