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Not many people have heard of the globular star cluster Terzan 5. It's a big ball of stars resembling spilled sugar like so many other globular clusters. A very few globulars are bright enough to see with the naked eye; ...

New research by the University of Surrey published today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has shone light on a globular cluster of stars that could host several hundred black holes, a phen...

Scientists spotted the space rock two days before its flyby  --

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

The two companies developing commercial crew systems for NASA are having problems that will likely delay the start of regular flights until at least late 2018, an agency report warned.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope:

NASA's first asteroid-sampling spacecraft was poised for an evening takeoff Thursday as crowds gathered to witness the start of its seven-year quest.

China is ready to put on the ear phones and flip the "on" switch for the world's largest, most powerful radio telescope, that is nearing completion in a vast, bowl-shaped valley in the mountainous southwestern province o...

Operations image of the week: The Rosetta flight control team add their signatures to the SciFi car

NASA is about to launch its first-ever asteroid-sampling spacecraft, but the mission won't be the first to bring pieces of another world back to Earth.

On July 17, 2016, a huge stream of ice and rock tumbled down a narrow valley in the Aru Range of Tibet. When the ice stopped moving, it had spread a pile of debris that was up to 30 meters...

On Sept. 8, 1966, as Americans sat down to see episode 1 of a new science fiction TV series, NASA was making its final preparations to launch its ninth two-man trek into "the final frontier." NASA and "Star Trek" have be...

New research by the University of Surrey published today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has shone light on a globular cluster of stars that could host several hundred black holes, a phen...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

(Phys.org)--A team of astronomers led by Alexis Smith of the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin reports the detection of a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a distant subgiant star known...

On Thursday evening, NASA will attempt the launch for an ambitious mission: OSIRIS-REx, a spacecraft that will go to asteroid, collect a sample, and return it to Earth. Yeah. This mission is cool. OSIRIS-REx is the tortu...

At 7:05 pm (EDT), Thursday, Sept. 8, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. Among that spacecraft's five instruments is a student experiment that will use X-rays to help determine Bennu's...

OSIRIS-REx seeks answers to the questions that are central to the human experience: Where did we come from? What is our destiny? Asteroids, the leftover debris from the solar system formation process, can answer these qu...

Fifty years ago today (Sept. 8), television viewers were first introduced to the crew of the USS Enterprise, when the first episode of "Star Trek" aired on television.

The popularity of "Star Trek" has grown exponentially since the franchise's debut in 1966, with fans inventing new ways to stay in touch and share their enthusiasm.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is poised to launch on its mission to visit an asteroid, scoop up a sample and come home.

The agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station here today (Sept. 8) at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT), riding a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket into an evening sky suffused with golde...