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Expedition 48 officially began Saturday morning with Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineers Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin continuing their stay aboard the International Space Station. They await the addition ...

When the NASA's New Horizons spacecraft buzzed by Pluto last year, it revealed tantalizing clues that the dwarf planet might have--or had at one time--a liquid ocean sloshing around under its icy crust. According to a ne...

For the past 20 years, exoplanets known as 'hot Jupiters' have puzzled astronomers. These giant planets orbit 100 times closer to their host stars than Jupiter does to the Sun, which increases their surface temperatures....

European Service Module testing at NASA's Plum Brook Station

A team of astronomers has confirmed the existence of a young planet, only 11 million years old, that orbits very close to its star (at 0.05 AU), with an orbital period of 5.4 days. Approximately 5 times the size of the E...

Scientists may have found a link between the pulsations of light coming from a black hole accretion disk and the "breathing" of that disk.

"We could be just a few decades from proving if there is life elsewhere," says astrophysicist Rene Heller, a post-doctoral fellow at McMaster University's Origins Institute who worked with Pudritz, a professor of physics...

A massive rocket booster that never made it into space has instead made its way to Mississippi's Infinity Science Center.

Using a normal toilet and appreciating weather--"any weather whatsoever"--are some of the small pleasures astronaut Tim Peake has enjoyed most since returning from the International Space Station (ISS), he said Tuesday.

Two new exoplanets have been discovered, and they're important milestones in our understanding of how alien solar systems behave. That's because both are very young, both are massive, and both orbit their stars very clos...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Cleaning up space junk is a high priority for space agencies who have to operate at orbits that can come dangerously to it. The company SKA Polska won an ESA contract to design a prototype gun to be tested on parabolic f...

Venus has an "electric wind" strong enough to remove the components of water from its upper atmosphere, which may have played a significant role in stripping Earth's twin planet of its oceans, according to new results fr...

Microbes living in water deposits deep below the Arabian desert may provide clues about whether methane on Mars signals the presence of life.

A white, hot column of flame firing out of a rocket engine, backdropped by white clouds and a blue sky, looks like a work of art in this photo from the private company Firefly Space Systems.

Both the dwarf planet Ceres and Pluto's moon Charon may be covered with material similar to the graphite in a pencil.

Earth's magnetosphere, the region of space dominated by Earth's magnetic field, protects our planet from the harsh battering of the solar wind. Like a protective shield, the magnetosphere absorbs and deflects plasma from...

The next SpaceX commercial cargo resupply services mission for NASA to the International Space Station now is targeted for launch no earlier than 12:45 a.m. EDT Monday, July 18.

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When the NASA's New Horizons spacecraft buzzed by Pluto last year, it revealed tantalizing clues that the dwarf planet might have -- or had at one time -- a liquid ocean sloshing around under its icy crust. According to ...

NASA Stennis Space Center:

Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high-energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time. The find offers a unique window into the properties, envi...