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Deep in the Arizona desert sits a $200 million experiment most people have never heard of. Built to replicate Earth and prepare humans for life in space, it quickly exposed how little we understand ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to a wild thought experiment from xkcd, examining whether a nuclear-powered submarine could realistically function as a spaceship. This video breaks down reactor design, ...

The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according to a lab experiment ...

The two projects unveiled Wednesday will be prepared beforehand, loaded onto the flight in lockers and will operate on their own.

Astronauts are preparing to orbit the moon in February, paving the way for long-term exploration. We're about to witness the ...

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When Samantha Rudman agreed to participate in a large and innovative Australian research study, she didn’t expect that it ...

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a renowned climate scientist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

Artemis 2 mission operators at NASA are preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for it's last critical test before ...

The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory.