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An enduring astronomical mystery is how stars and galaxies acquire their magnetic fields. Physicists Jonathan Squire and Amitava Bhattacharjee at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ...

Chronicling the second chapter of the European Space Agency's mission to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, this fairy tale-like treatment of the two probes' primary findings will warm your heart.

New observations of Pluto's moons reveal a system in pandemonium, according to scientists with the New Horizons mission.

What's better at blocking sunlight: a traditional flat occulter disk or a beach ball?

More than a hundred times as distant from the Sun as Earth is, the object could be a pristine remnant from the primordial solar system --

Going up? Attention space elevator button pushers! A feature-length documentary called Sky Line is being released this month, an impressive view that follows a group of scientists and entrepreneurs as egos collide in an ...

Moonspike, a European venture to send a small spacecraft to the moon is reconsidering its plans after an online fundraising effort fell fall short of its goal.

Recent experiments at the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) at the University of California, Los Angeles, have successfully excited elusive plasma waves, known as whistler-mode chorus waves, which have hitherto only been observ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Nobel Prize-winning head astronomer advised planetary scientists to get started on proposals for focusing JWST's 6.5-meter mirror on objects most closer to home than its usual cosmic quar...

Fourteen members of Congress from California ask the Defense Department to examine the company's decisions to retire its Delta 4 rocket and to drop Aerojet Rocketdyne as its solid-rocket booster provider. SpaceNews.com

With images like these, it's no wonder California -- not to mention the Twittersphere -- freaked out Saturday evening when an unannounced test of a submarine-launched Trident missile lit up the evening sky. SpaceNews.com

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The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

New Horizons reveals the orbits of Pluto's four smallest moons to be even more chaotic than expected --

From possible ice volcanoes to geologically diverse surfaces to oddly behaving moons that could have formed through mergers of smaller moons, Pluto system discoveries continue to surprise scientists on NASA's New Horizon...

Since the late 1980s, scientists have discovered nearly 5,000 planetary bodies orbiting stars other than the sun. But astronomers are still working on what exactly we should call them.

Most inner moons in the solar system keep one face pointed toward their central planet; this animation shows that certainly isn't the case with the small moons of Pluto, which behave like spinning tops. Pluto is shown at...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

An international research team has resolved the mystery of the processes involved in the Mediterranean Sea drying up around 5.6 million years ago. The event, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), saw the Mediterr...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

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