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A novel mission concept involving two CubeSats connected by a thin, miles-long tether could help scientists understand how the Moon got its mysterious "tattoos" -- swirling patterns of light and dark found at more than 1...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Following a two day orbital chase and ballet of carefully choreographed thruster firings, the SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule launched at lunchtime on Monday Aug. 14 with tons of science and suppli...

While the International Space Station was traveling over the Pacific Ocean north of New Zealand, NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Paolo Nespoli captured the Dragon spacecraft at 6:52 ...

As the number of small satellites seeking launch continues to grow, new opportunities are emerging fly those satellites as secondary payloads on other launches as well as tools to identify those opportunities. SpaceNews....

As part of its Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies program, NASA has selected a CubeSat mission to study Venus' atmosphere. The post NASA Plans to Send CubeSat To Venus to Unlock Atmospheric Mystery appeared fi...

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The remaining teams in this private space race have more time—and the opportunity for more money—on their way to the Moon --

An international team of scientists relied on a new kind of gravitational lensing to conduct a detailed study of a distant supermassive black hole. The post Gravitational Lensing Provides Rare Glimpse Into Interiors of B...

A new exhibit at the Princeton University Art Museum was inspired by an extraordinary artist who harnessed both scientific knowledge and artistic practicality to produce enchanting paintings of solar eclipses.

Spacewalking cosmonauts have set free the world's first satellite made with a 3-D printer.

The wisps of light emanating from the solar disk during this year's total eclipse are plumes of hot, charged gas called plasma from the sun's corona. And plasma physicists are ecstatic at the chance to study this fourth ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Texas at Arlington have predicted that an Earth-like planet may be lurking in a star system just 16 light years away.

Antares is a red supergiant that one day will explode into a supernova.

If you're on an airplane flying across the U.S. during the Aug. 21 eclipse, what might you see from midair?

Solar astronomer J. McKim Malville has some advice for people planning to see the Great American Solar Eclipse on Aug. 21: Don't photograph it.

Life has had a long time to potentially get a foothold on the rocky planets circling the tiny, dim star TRAPPIST-1, a new study suggests.

At a recent gala celebrating the 48th anniversary of Apollo 11, billionaire Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos talked about his successful 2013 effort to pull pieces of Apollo hardware off the Atlantic Ocean floor.

Like millions of Americans, Neil deGrasse Tyson plans to watch the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21. But he's keeping his eclipse-viewing location a secret.

It's hard to believe: we're now just one short weekend away from the big ticket astronomical event for 2017, as a total solar eclipse is set to cross over the contiguous United States on Monday, August 21st. Celestial me...

I’ve often been asked the question, “Can the astronauts on the Space Station see the stars?” Astronaut Jack Fischer provides an unequivocal answer of “yes!” with a recent post on Twitter of a timelapse he took ...

Will NASA discover signs of ancient life at one of the largest and oldest impact craters in the Solar System? "Mars 2020 represents a crucial first step towards a possible Mars sample return," said Ken Williford, Directo...