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View larger. | This is an overhead view of Mars’ south polar ice cap. The Mars Global Surveyor orbiter took this composite image in 2005. A new international study supports earlier findings of liquid water on Mars beneath the ice cap.…

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At the end of August a parcel arrived from outer space for a small Connecticut-based biotech company called LambdaVision. Inside the shoebox-sized package were samples of a protein-based film that the company hopes will one day be the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just rocket fuel propelling America’s first moonshotafter a half-century lull. Rivalry with China’s flourishing space program is helping drive NASA’s effort to get back into space in a bigger way, as both…

Whether to spend money on outer space exploration or to apply it to solve serious problems on Earth, like climate change and food shortages, is a contentious debate. But one argument in favor of space exploration…

Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across. It displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that…

When Danielle Alvarez returned to the Wing in Soho last summer, she saw the writing on the chic, perfectly lit mint-green wall. “I walked into the space and I was in shock by how dead it was … It was always…

In the picture above, the names of the stars are in the upper left-hand corner of each image. Winds blowing outward from the stars create a variety of structures, such as disks, spirals and "roses", that are consistent with the theory…

China is moving forward on nuclear power in space.China's Ministry of Science and Technology approved a space nuclear reactor project aiming to generate a megawatt of electricity, according to SpaceNews (opens in new tab). That's enough…

At three metres tall, Nasa’s Orion capsule is roomier than Apollo’s capsule and seats four astronauts instead of three, but for Monday’s test flight it will have a payload ranging from a mannequin named Helga to bits of Apollo 11’s…