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A new model giving rise to young planetary systems offers a fresh solution to a puzzle that has vexed astronomers ever since new detection technologies and planet-hunting missions such as NASA's Kepler space telescope ha...

Saturn shines over Manhattan's glittering skyline in a gorgeous photo captured by amateur astronomer Alexander Krivenyshev.

Days after celebrating the 1st anniversary of its arrival around Jupiter, the Juno probe will give us our most detailed look at Jupiter's Giant Red Spot. The post We’re About to Get Our Closest Look at Jupiter’s Grea...

NASA's Juno mission completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot on July 10, during its sixth science orbit....

The three Expedition 52 crew members practiced evacuating the International Space Station today in the unlikely event of an emergency. The trio also set up an advanced life science study and continued the upkeep of the o...

Astronomers studying the distant Universe have found that small star-forming galaxies were abundant when the Universe was only 800 million years old, a few percent of its present age. The results suggest that the earlies...

A NASA spacecraft, Juno, has successfully peered into the giant storm raging on Jupiter, known as the Great Red Spot, and its first pictures should be out in days, the US space agency said Tuesday.

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Just like early explorers, NASA Twins Study investigators are venturing into new territory. Conducting human omics research on twin astronauts as part of the One Year Mission that took place aboard the International Spac...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: In the search for planets similar to our own, an important point of comparison is the planet's density. A low density tells scientists a planet is more likely to be gas...

As Planet prepares to complete its initial constellation of remote sensing satellites, a ground station it built in northern Canada to communicate with those spacecraft remains offline because of delays in receiving a go...

How exactly planets form is still an open question with a number of outstanding problems....

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has looked for many different signs of alien life, from radio broadcasts to laser flashes, without success. However, recent research suggests that mysterious phenomena called ...

In a new experiment, researchers have created a super-dense version of ice found deep within icy moons and colliding comets, and watched it form in nanoseconds.

ESO Top News: At a ceremony today in Canberra, Australia, an arrangement was signed to begin a ten-year strategic partnership between ESO and Australia. The partnership will further strengthen ESO's programme, both scien...

A built-it-yourself robotic car kit by Elegoo is on sale as part of Amazon Prime Day.

Mikhail Kalinin, who was chief executive of Main Military Construction Office No. 9 until a year ago, was arrested after being charged with accepting a bribe from a subcontractor for work building the launch site in Russ...

"These experiments with water are the first of their kind, allowing us to witness a fundamental disorder-to-order transition in one of the most abundant molecules in the universe," said study lead author Arianna Gleason,...

Human spaceflight image of the week: Expedition 52 crew remember fellow cosmonauts at Red Square in Moscow

It's a simple tactic in mosquito combat--find out where the little bloodsuckers are headed and cut them off at the pass. An online system is using NASA data to do just that.

The Celestron NexStar 127SLT Mak computerized telescope scope normally sells for $459, but you can get it at a discount on Amazon Prime Day today (July 11), beginning at 9:05 a.m. EDT (1305 GMT).

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