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NASA's Parker Solar Probe spacecraft kicked off the new year with another close approach to the sun on Sunday (Jan. 17) as the sun's activity picks up from a lull when the probe launched.

One of those missions includes NASA's Persevering Rover. When it lands, we will be able to hear the sounds of Mars for the first time, thanks to the

After nearly two years of struggles, NASA has abandoned efforts to deploy a heat flow probe on its InSight lander into the surface of Mars.

UAE's Hope Probe set to reach the Red Planet on February 9 at 7.42pm

Hubble Showcases Six Beautiful Galaxy Mergers  Space Ref

Since time immemorial, philosophers and scholars have contemplated the beginning of time and even tried to determine when all things began. It's only been in the age of modern astronomy that we've come close to answering that question with a fair degree of certainty. According to the most widely-accepted cosmological models, the Universe began with … Continue reading "Astronomers set a new Record and Find the…

For all its planets and stars and black holes and mind-blowing phenomena, the universe seems to be missing something, but that something might just be hiding.

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Shortly after Japan's Hayabusa2 probe returned to Earth, JAXA showed off some of the samples it collected from asteroid Ryugu. Now, JAXA has released photos...

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of CHEOPS, ESA's exoplanet investigation telescope. Here's what it discovered in its first year.

A moonless night will let the Geminids shine as bits of space rock burn up in Earth's atmosphere and streak colorful trails across the sky.

A new technique may sift out universe's very first gravitational waves. Identifying primordial ripples would be key to understanding conditions of the early universe.

The uncrewed Chang'e 5 probe is ready to return to Earth after performing China's first automatic rendezvous and docking in lunar orbit at 5.42am Beijing time on December 6,…

The craft has been collecting rock and soil samples. China is only the second country to plant its national banner on the lunar surface.

The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 is to deliver samples of asteroid Ryugu to Earth this Saturday night. A year and a half ago, it extracted dust and rocks in an elaborate maneuver.

Artificial satellites are among the top scientific and technological achievements of human civilisation. Here's all you need to know about how they work

A Chinese space probe has begun drilling on the surface of the Moon hours after landing, in an ambitious attempt to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Right now, three missions from Earth are headed to the planet Mars. But

Celestial reference frames built from Gaia star-mapping satellite promise better planetary navigation and telescope pointing

A team from UT Austin has renewed a proposal for a liquid-mirror telescope on the Moon that could study the first stars in the Universe.