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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket

The European Space Agency (ESA) is still in the dark about NASA’s participation in its Venus exploration mission Envision despite the project’s tight deadline, ESA representatives said in a recent

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) completed a change-of-command ceremony today (Jan. 12) ahead of the early departure of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission, which is leaving soon due to an

BOULDER, Colorado — The existing NASA-European Space Agency effort to establish a Mars Sample Return program is slated to be discontinued. That’s the word according to the Commerce, Justice, Science,

Mark Kelly isn’t taking his punishment lying down. Kelly — a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot and NASA astronaut who currently serves as a U.S. Senator (D-Ariz.) — announced today

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Florida on Monday (Jan. 12). The two-stage booster lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40)

NASA is ramping up its efforts to search for signs of life throughout the universe, and has directed companies to begin developing technologies that will help it do so using

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered an unexpected shockwave around a dead star. The team behind the shock discovery (in more ways than one) is baffled by

The final episodes of “Stranger Things” turned the Upside Down, well, upside down. Having spent the best part of a decade believing it was a freaky parallel dimension populated by

Today, science can narrow down potential oil reserves with surprising accuracy — especially when it comes to shale oil, found embedded within sedimentary rock. By studying sediments in China’s Sichuan