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A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places.

For decades, scientists assumed that the expansion of the universe was powered by a new entity, known as the inflaton, but new research suggests that it may have been possible without it.

The mighty telescope is expected to see its "first light" by 2028.

Despite crashing in the Utah desert in 2004, NASA's Genesis mission is still helping scientists study the effects of solar wind.

Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.

On Episode 144 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look a pair of private moon missions by Firefly Aerospace and ispace that lifted off this week and so much more.

On Jan. 16, 2006: NASA's Stardust mission returned to Earth carrying samples of cometary material.

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, according to Landsate satellite imagery.

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a light pollution risk due to a new renewable energy project.

SpaceX is set to launch 27 of its Starlink internet satellites Monday (Jan. 20), four days after a test flight of its Starship megarocket ended in an explosion.