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China is the latest nation to study lunar lava tubes as locations for bases. They provide natural protection that's impossible to ignore.

In 1960, Freeman Dyson proposed how advanced civilizations could create megastructures that enclosed their system, allowing them to harness all of their star's energy and multiplying the habitable space they could occupy.

Astronomers have spotted a gigantic void they believe to be a baryon acoustic oscillation — a relic from when the universe was a fiery plasma soup

In a solar system called TRAPPIST-1, 40 light years from the sun, seven Earth-sized planets revolve around a cold star.

NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:42 a.m. EDT (1442 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target.

Astronomers using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified carbon dioxide in a specific region on the icy surface of Jupiters moon Europa.

Expedition 69 crew members on the ISS marked a busy week with cleaning, maintenance, and experiments. Frank Rubio, Sergey Prokopyev, and Dmitri Petelin celebrated a year in space, while others contributed to diverse tasks and scientific investigations.

Bang! Inflatable space station module blows apart in explosive test (video) | Space.com
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The German project aims to explore beneath Earthly ice as a test for space exploration.

The U.S. Department of Defense wants fresh ideas on how to maintain military superiority in space.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter breaks altitude record on 59th Mars flight | Space.com
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Of all the objects in the Solar System, perhaps the most spectacular are the great comets that occasionally grace our skies. If you’ve been on social media in the past few days, you’ve probably seen articles proclaiming we have such a comet in our skies right now: C/2023 P1 (Nishimura).

NASA's Curiosity rover reaches Mars ridge where water left debris pileup | Phys.org
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Scientists studied the Squid Galaxy, Messier 77, to determine how chemicals swirl around its shrouded central black hole.

NASA is eyeing a privately built 'Apollo' space robot for continued investment — and future space missions.

A Billion-Mile Journey: OSIRIS-REx’s Meteoric Return With a Space Rock Treasure
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will release an asteroid sample capsule this September, aiming for a landing in the Great Salt Lake Desert, with teams ready to address challenges during its descent and recovery.
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The sun’s outer atmosphere is vastly hotter than its surface. Scientists may be close to figuring out why.

Signs of life? Why astronomers are excited about CO2 and methane in the atmosphere of an alien world - Space.com
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Planning is underway for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory In early August, scientists and engineers gathered in a small auditorium at Caltech to discuss how to build the first space telescope capable of detecting life on planets like Earth. The proposed mission concept, called the Habitable Worl

The curvature of space-time around a colossal mass has yielded the most detailed measurement of the cosmic distribution of dark matter yet.

Triton orbits to the beat of its own drum.

Queen’s researchers lead the discovery of two potential polar ring galaxies. A group of international astronomers, including researchers from Queen’s University, has identified two potential polar ring galaxies, according to results published on September 13 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal As

NASA to publish long-awaited UFO report - Phys.org
NASA is set to release on Thursday the findings of a long-awaited study on unexplained flying objects in Earth's skies.
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Scientists have discovered that cosmic structures grow slower than Einstein's Theory of General Relativity predicts, with dark energy playing a more dominant inhibitory role than previously thought. This finding may reshape our understanding of dark matter, dark energy, and fundamental cosmic theori