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Radio blasts could be 'technosignatures' from extraterrestrial intelligence but more work is required

Asteroid 2023 BU will zoom over the southern tip of South America only 2,200 miles above the the planet's surface.

Orbital observations unveil the presence of an enormous mantle plume pushing the surface of Mars upward and driving intense volcanic and seismic activity. The discovery reveals that Mars, like Earth and Venus, possesses an active interior, which challenge

In May, NASA reported its Voyager 1 spacecraft was sending strange data back to Earth. After looking through decades-old manuals to debug it, the Voyager team

A Martian megatsunami may have raced across the Red Planet after a cosmic impact similar to the one that likely ended Earth's age of dinosaurs, a new study finds.

Titan is a strange world — a little bit Earthlike, if land were made of water ice, rivers and seas were filled with liquid methane and other hydrocarbons, and the atmosphere were thick and hazy, dotted with methane clouds. And now, the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb or JWST) has observed two of

WASP-39b is a hot Saturn with some nasty chemicals in its skies.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to get the most in-depth look yet at the atmosphere of planet WASP-39 b.

A study published in Science analyses multiple rocks found at the bottom of Jezero Crater on Mars, where the Perseverance rover landed in 2020, revealing significant interaction between the rocks and liquid water. Those rocks also contain evidence consist

Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy, has now tested Einstein's theory on the largest of scales. We believe our approach may one day help resolve some of the biggest mysteries in cosmology, and the results hint that the theory of general relat

The great question-- Is our universe weird permutation among countless other possibilities, observed for no other reason than that its special conditions allowed life to arise?

India's first-ever private rocket, named Vikram-suborbital (Vikram S), was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 11:30 am IST today.

After two failed attempts, NASA plans to launch its new mega Moon rocket today from Florida, less than a week after the massive machine withstood a hurricane.

On Wednesday night, a new planet-hunting instrument at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea achieved "first light," capturing its first data from the sky, a spectrum of the planet Jupiter.

USA News: NASA is again postponing the launch of its new moon rocket because of a storm threatening the Florida coast.

SpaceX is targeting early December to launch its giant Starship rocket system into orbit for the first time, a pivotal demonstration flight as it aims to fly NASA astronauts to the moon in the next few years, a US official said yesterday.

China's secretive reusable spaceplane has released an object into orbit, according to tracking data from the U.S. Space Force. The post China's mystery spaceplane releases object into orbit appeared first on SpaceNews .

One of the biggest meteor strikes ever witnessed in the solar system has been recorded by two different Mars missions.

Five years ago a very strange objectmaybe a thousand feet long, oblong, shiny and faststreaked across space, tens of millions of miles from Earth. Its course and speed indicated it had come from outside the solar system. A visitor from another star. Astronomers dubbed the thing OumuamuaHawaiian for

At 40 light years away from Earth, TRAPPIST-1's four Goldilocks zone planets are one of the prime candidates for finding extra-terrestrial life.