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Planets develop from the dusty placental disk of material that surrounds a star after it begins to shine. The dust in that disk, according to most models, starts to stick to itself until clumps develop large enough to at...

Astronauts living and working aboard a proposed orbiting "Mars Base Camp" could help collect information that any future Red Planet explorer would need to know, the project's developers say.

After nearly a half-century of neglect - and nine months of extensive restoration - the life-sized Star Trek prop is ready for active duty. Superfan Adam Schneider and his family show SPACE.com what it took to get Galile...

This galaxy, known as NGC 2337, resides 25 million light-years away in the constellation of Lynx. NGC 2337 is an irregular galaxy, meaning that it--along with a quarter of all galaxies in the universe--lacks a distinct, ...

In 20th Century Fox's first trailer for "Hidden Figures," Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan find themselves stuck on the side of an empty country road as an officer pulls up behind their car. "We are ju...

Skywatcher Rick Moore took this image when he was stargazing at the Platte River, in Louisville, Nebraska.

New details about the cast and crew of Star Trek: Discovery emerge.

New secrets have been revealed about the monster black hole at the center of Cygnus A, an elliptical galaxy that played a prominent role in Carl Sagan's 1985 science-fiction novel "Contact."

The first of a two part series that looks at what astronomers can find out about the planets that are discovered orbiting other stars in our galaxy.

NASA is weighing a Moscow proposal to cut the number of Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station from three to two, particularly its potential risk to the crew, an official said Monday.

Many features on the surface of Mars hint at the presence of liquid water in the past. These range from the Valles Marineris, a 4,000 km long and 7 km deep system of canyons, to the tiny hematite spherules called "bluebe...

NASA has awarded a sole source contract to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington to conduct studies and evaluations in support of the agency's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters.

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center technicians and engineers cycle the sample return capsule (SRC) door in a test of NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identific...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Brown dwarfs are smaller than stars, but more massive than giant planets. As such, they provide a natural link between astronomy and planetary science. However, they also show incredible variation when it comes to size, ...

Our planet is nestled in the center of two immense, concentric doughnuts of powerful radiation: the Van Allen radiation belts, which harbor swarms of charged particles that are trapped by Earth's magnetic field....

Brown dwarfs are smaller than stars, but more massive than giant planets. As such, they provide a natural link between astronomy and planetary science....

Lie on the beach this summer and your body will be bombarded by about sextillion photons of light per second.

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

Visitors to this year's annual Chicago Air and Water Show will have a chance to explore the universe with NASA.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The private spaceflight company has landed its Falcon 9 rocket for the sixth time in the last eight months --