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SpaceX is getting closer to finding the cause of a September pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9.

An ancient kind of star was just discovered in the Milky Way's heart, suggesting that the galaxy's center was created after primordial star clusters merged with each other.

The interns re-imagine artist Flo Rida's song "My House" into "Welcome to NASA." The lyrics kick off with "Open up the airlock, pop!" in a fun take on the song.

Will astronauts traveling to Mars remember much of it? That's the question concerning University of California, Irvine scientists probing a phenomenon called "space brain."...

The Moon is bombarded by so much space rock that its surface gets a complete facelift every 81,000 years, according to a study released Wednesday based on NASA data.

Solar physicists have long viewed the rotation of sunspots as a primary generator of solar flares - the sudden, powerful blasts of electromagnetic radiation and charged particles that burst into space during explosions o...

Contrary to what we previously though, Proxima Centauri has some striking similarities to our Sun, which includes a solar cycle The post Turns out Proxima Centauri is Strikingly Similar to our Sun appeared first on Unive...

President Obama has always been a strong supporter of science, and now he has reaffirmed his support for a mission to Mars. The post President Obama Puts US All In For Mars appeared first on Universe Today.

"Something as big and fast as what caused Phobos' Stickney crater would have a devastating effect on Earth," says Megan Bruck Syal, a member of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory planetary defense team. "If NASA ...

If intelligent aliens were living on Proxima Centauri's planet, Proxima b, "They would have a very dramatic view," says the lead author of a new the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) study, Brad Wargelin....

Mars' largest moon, Phobos, has captured public imagination and been shrouded in mystery for decades. But numerical simulations recently conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have shed some light on ...

To date, only five dwarf planets --Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake--have been officially recognized in the Solar System, but astronomers believe that there could be at least 100 more hidden in the Kuiper Belt - ...

The object is 530 kilometers across, and lurks in a region beyond Pluto   --

A new documentary short film looks back at the last time humanity ventured beyond low-Earth orbit. "The Last Steps" chronicles the journey of Apollo 17, the United States' sixth and last moon landing mission in December ...

Here's a brief rundown of the various plans to get astronauts to Mars, several of which aim to put boots on the Red Planet within a decade or so.

Three crew members of Expedition 49/50 are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station at 4:05 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 19 (2:05 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Live launch cove...

The long-sought ingredient that may have helped gene-like strands to copy themselves in puddles for the first time ever, billions of years ago when Earth was devoid of life, has been found by researchers at the Georgia I...

Venus and Mercury have been observed transiting the Sun many times over the past few centuries. When these planets are seen passing between the Sun and the Earth, opportunities exist for some great viewing, not to mentio...

About 450 light-years from the Sun, in the constellation of Ophiuchus (yes, that Ophiuchus), lies a young star. If it were off by itself somewhere it would be an unremarkable star, a red dwarf roughly half the mass of th...

Astronomers have found a dozen very old variable stars deep in the maelstrom of stars at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery may help researchers decide which of two theories best explains how a "galactic b...

(Phys.org)--A team of space scientists at the University of Michigan has discovered a dwarf planet that is approximately half the size of Pluto and twice as far from the sun. The sighting was reported by NPR, which inter...

A team of astrophysicists at the University of Portsmouth have created the largest ever map of voids and superclusters in the universe, which helps solve a long-standing cosmological mystery.