The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of forests across multiple continents ...

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An instrument aboard the Vikram lander suggests that buried water ice could be found at higher latitudes, making it more ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

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NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines multiple task orders under the agency’s NSNS contract for communication and navigation ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Ann-Kathrin Vlacil, team leader for enabling science in human exploration at ... and ground-based research is essential for human space exploration. Our findings have significant implications for ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...

The space science community has long ... agency — it’s undermining the values of science. “The removal of a statement (which is just words on a page) does not diminish the commitment of ...