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A "deeply personal" set of images filmed by NASA astronauts which includes the first ever selfie taken in space has been ...
The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds ...
The global scientific community, a study says, should prepare for when humanity detects signs of extraterrestrial intelligence in the internet age.
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These breathtaking photographs are the winning entries of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards.
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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have spent two decades and large portions of their exorbitant wealth creating new space technologies. Their plan is to reshape how humans live.
For years, astronomers believed that Makemake, one of the brightest icy bodies beyond Neptune, was a frozen relic of the ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission successfully makes a Moon landing, marking a milestone for NASA and its commercial ...
Makemake is about 890 miles wide, roughly two-thirds the size of Pluto. Early observations indicated it had almost no atmosphere—essentially just a little air, if any. However, Webb's powerful ...
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the heliosphere which defines where our solar system ends and interstellar space ...