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WATCH: A Spacecraft Is Launching to Study How Earth Survives Solar Storms

The first-ever X-ray observations of our planet's magnetic field. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, s...

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Our new Space.com app takes you out of this world, every day, for the latest space mission news, astronomical discoveries, night sky guides and more.

In a First For Science, A Satellite Has Identified What It's Seeing From Space

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Inside NASA's $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope that could see 100 times more than Hubble

British Space Startup Launches Longevity Lab Into Orbit

The lab will beam back data to train AI models to predict how proteins behind age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and certain cancers behave.

Scientists Find Cosmic 'Rosetta Stone' To Decode Baffling Signals From Deep Space

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NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space

NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra-cold matter that behaves in astonishing ways. The expe...

Heads Up: NASA to Launch 'Daring' Telescope Rescue Mission This Week

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Astronauts watch from space as ice splinters from a glacier | Space photo of the day for June 11, 2026

Changes in the Southern Patagonia Icefield can be seen from space

A 22-year-old NASA observatory is slowly falling towards Earth and scientists are trying to save it

Quantum lab aboard space station gets 'chilly' upgrade

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA's newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fund...

NASA's SpaceX CRS-34 Dragon returns packed with space station science

Scientists await a big splash in the Pacific Ocean as one of the most research-packed Dragon spacecraft to date returns, completing the 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission to t...

ESA selects two new scout-class missions

When it comes to understanding Earth and our changing environment, space is the place. Not only does it give us an overall holistic view of the planet below, but satellite-based im...

Photo: A New Map of the Universe

Researchers studying the history of the universe have captured the largest-ever high-resolution 3D map of the cosmos.

‘Amaze, amaze, amaze’: in Project Hail Mary, science and friendship save the day

Andrew Glester and Tushna Commissariat delve into the science and story of Project Hail Mary The post ‘Amaze, amaze, amaze’: in <em>Project Hail Mary</em>, science and...

Space crew scramble for best spot as astronaut captures aurora from 250 miles above Earth

European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot has shared stunning aurora photos from the International Space Station, leaving the entire crew in awe.

NASA’s Orbiting Quantum Lab Pushes Deeper Into the Unknown

The International Space Station is now home to an even more capable quantum laboratory, where NASA cools atoms to nearly absolute zero to study one of the strangest states of matte...

Where NASA Posts Its Best Space Photos, and How to Find Them

Explore decades of incredible images and videos of stars, planets, moons, and galaxies—most of which are free to use and share.

NASA races to save a falling space telescope in a first-of-its-kind rescue mission using robotic spacecraft

"I'll buy 10 of those"—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites

"How in the hell do I get more science into space? That is my goal."

European Space Agency's Euclid captures the star-filled center of the Milky Way

NASA will begin mapping the galactic bulge with a mission later this summer.

NASA and ESA Track Record-Breaking 19-Day Solar Radio Burst

Learn how NASA spacecraft tracked a record-breaking solar radio burst that circled the Sun for 19 days and what the signal reveals about how solar activity lingers in space.

New spacecraft will watch Earth's shield take the hit as solar storms come roaring in

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the sun slam into Earth'...