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Convection processes beneath Venus’ scorched surface may help explain the planet’s many volcanoes, a new study reports.

Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system, is estimated to have 85,000 volcanoes, based on radar images from NASA’s 1989…

Decades ago during the heady space race rivalry between the former Soviet Union and the United States, the entire world experienced the Sputnik moment when the first artificial satellite orbited the Earth.

Sputnik 1’s liftoff on Oct. 4, 1957…

BATON ROUGE – Once every 79 to 80 years, humans are treated to a view of an astronomical event that’s set to happen again soon.

However, the event actually occurred around three thousand years ago. That’s because it’s around 3,000 light-years…

In some ways, the stars above us are the ultimate equalizer: we’re all equally far away, we all share the right to look up at them; and, tiny glittering pinpoints that they are, when we…

A two-decade study into the gradual disappearance of Great white sharks from False Bay in South Africa has gone to new lengths to underscore the crucial role that apex predators…

A large asteroid whose chances of hitting Earth have been all but ruled out is now slightly more likely to hit the Moon than previously thought, Nasa says.

When first discovered, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a very small chance of impacting Earth in 2032…

SpaceX’s Fram2, the first crewed mission ever to orbit our planet over the poles, will return to Earth today (April 4), and you can watch the action live.

Fram2’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Resilience, is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific…

PLD Space signs launch agreement with D-Orbit. The Spanish launch company, PLD Space, announced an agreement this week with an Italy-based space transportation company, D-Orbit. As part of the agreement, D-Orbit’s ION…