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The United States and China aren’t the only powerful, wealthy nations in the world, and they’re certainly not the only nations active in space.

Simulating extraterrestrial environments on Earth has always been a challenge. Our planet has a pleasant atmosphere, reasonable temperatures, and a moderate amount of gravity, unlike the rest of the solar

It’s a tantalizing prospect. Since 2017, three interstellar objects have been spotted passing through our solar system: 1I/ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov… and just this month, 3I/ATLAS. Discovered on July 1st by the

I don’t think space or lunar tourism is going to be the big draw that transforms the moon into something unrecognizable.

If you’ve ever dreamed of traveling through space as an explorer, you know there’ll be some serious “downside dangers”. One of them is cosmic rays. These high-speed particles slam through

On the slopes of Martian mountains and craters clings what appears to be flowing honey, coated in dust and frozen in time. In reality, these features are incredibly slow-moving glaciers,

How can identifying land on exoplanets help scientists better understand whether an exoplanet could harbor life? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as a team of

Scientists have achieved a groundbreaking milestone by creating the first detailed map of magnetic fields in one of the most chaotic regions of space, the turbulent center of our own

Science is driven by our desire to understand things. In some cases, where it requires significant effort and investment to develop systems that can understand new things, science benefits from

Life arose early in Earth’s history. Was this an inevitable process, or an extremely unlikely event that happened early on, and what does this tell us about the likelihood of