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Artemis II, the next mission in NASA’s Artemis program to explore the Moon, is scheduled to launch from Florida within the coming weeks. The mission will be the first crewed mission to the vicinity of the Moon since 1972, with the…

A Stone Age person buried 12,000 years ago in a cave in Italy had a rare genetic disorder that shortened her arms and legs, a new study finds.

A DNA analysis of her skeleton revealed that she was a teenage girl who had a rare form of dwarfism….

NASA’s planet-hunting TESS spacecraft recently caught a view of a very different kind of cosmic object: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

During a special observation run from Jan. 15 to Jan. 22, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)…

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Astrophotographer Osama Fathi…

Deep in coastal mud and shallow lagoons, a tiny, brainless sea anemone is quietly using the same molecular playbook that helps human embryos decide where to put a back and a belly.

A new study from the University of Vienna shows that the starlet…

NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program recently added digital elevation model and imagery products from Satellogic and Vantor (formerly Maxar). Each of these products, described below, is accessible through the CSDA’s…

European astronomers are using AI to help explain mysterious images across NASA’s catalog of Hubble Space Telescope data, spanning 35 years. The team at the European Space Agency developed a neural network called AnomalyMatch, which analyzes…

The chemistry that built life on Earth may have begun in deep space, according to a new study. The discovery could help to unravel one of science’s central questions: what are the origins of life’s molecular building blocks?

Astronomers have…