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The ESA's Gaia mission made a startling discovery recently, detecting six stars that appear to have been kicked out of the Milky Way The post Gaia Finds Six Stars Zipping out of the Milky Way appeared first on Universe T...

Paired with a cosmic magnifying glass, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed insight into star formation in the early universe.

IC 342 is a challenging cosmic target....

It's not that common to see craters on steep hills, partly because rocks falling downhill can quickly erase such craters....

Vice President Mike Pence spoke to employees on July 6 at our Kennedy Space Center in Florida, highlighting the public/private partnerships transforming the center into a multi-user spaceport, and changing the way we do ...

XCOR Aerospace, a company developing rocket engines and a suborbital space plane, has laid off its remaining employees but is continuing efforts to raise funding to maintain at least some of its projects.

The planet Uranus just keeps getting weirder. The icy gas world that strangely orbits the sun on its side may also have a wonky magnetic field that constantly flickers on and off, new research suggests.

Pitted terrains inside fresh complex craters on Ceres are similar to terrains seen Mars and Vesta, and are likely formed through the rapid evaporation of subsurface H2O, a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Researc...

Pitted terrains inside fresh complex craters on Ceres are similar to terrains seen Mars and Vesta, and are likely formed through the rapid evaporation of subsurface H2O...