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Ed Markey is persistent. In April, during Jared Isaacman’s first nomination hearing for the post of NASA administrator, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts asked repeatedly if SpaceX founder and CEO

Radiation levels in Earth’s atmosphere rose to the highest level in nearly two decades in November after a rare solar super-flare pummeled the planet with high-speed particles from the sun.

If there ever was a planet that has gotten a bad rap for its inability to be readily observed it would have to be Mercury, known in some circles as

In early November, a series of powerful X-class solar flares triggered coronal mass ejections that resulted in an astonishing auroral display for viewers as far south as Mexico. But for

PC Gaming Show Most Wanted 2025 – YouTube Watch On Heads up, sci-fi gaming fans; our colleagues over at PC Gamer are hosting the ‘PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted’ show

On Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 27), a Russian Soyuz rocket launched three astronauts toward the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Everything seemed to go well. After all, the

Stargazers rejoice! Dec. 4 marks the start of the annual Geminid meteor shower, as Earth passes through the trail of debris shed by the strange blue asteroid 3200 Phaethon, triggering

In a hangar outside Zurich, a veteran of low Earth orbit lay under a kind of medical scanner no spacecraft was ever designed for. The patient was the European Retrievable

Scientists have inched a step closer to solving an enduring mystery in physics — why the universe contains any matter at all — thanks to a newly combined analysis from

Get ready stargazers, the final full moon of 2025 rises tonight! Here’s what to expect when the “Cold Supermoon” looms large over the eastern horizon at sunset on Dec. 4.