Space

By analyzing just three dust particles, researchers learned that the rubble pile asteroid Itokawa is 4.2 billion years old and hard to kill.

A 650-million-years-old meteorite found in Africa shows the rich and complex chemistry that once happened on Mars.

Jupiter’s moon Io is thought to be inhospitable, but new data suggests life could exist underground, perhaps in lava tubes.

NASA has announced that it is developing the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a new space telescope optimized to hunt for extraterrestrial life.

SpaceX has signed an agreement with the National Science Foundation detailing its plans to minimize Starlink’s impact on astronomy.

Though it makes up about 26% of the Universe, we cannot see dark matter. But we know it's there because we can see its effects.

Two upcoming space missions by NASA and ESA could help bring satellite navigation (satnav) to the moon and cislunar space.

After decades of wondering how ring galaxies form, we've caught them in enough stages of evolution that we finally know where they come from.

University of Rochester researchers think they have a solution to creating an asteroid city: a giant bag.

On Nov. 29, 2022, the Shenzhou 15 mission launched from China’s Gobi Desert carrying three taikonauts – the Chinese word for astronauts.

2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.

Scientists have pushed the Milky Way's early history back more than 2 billion years: to less than 800 million years after the Big Bang.

SpinLaunch has a working prototype successfully launching objects at 1,000 miles-per-hour, but will the laws of physics stand in the way?

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