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The discovery of a planet with a highly elliptical orbit around an ancient star could help us understand more about how planetary systems form and evolve over time.

The Expedition 53 astronauts are continuing to unload several thousand pounds of space cargo from the new Cygnus resupply ship that arrived Tuesday morning. Some of the new science cargo contains a bacteria that curiousl...

Twice as big as Earth, the super-Earth 55 Cancri e was thought to have lava flows on its surface. The planet is so close to its star, the same side of the planet always faces the star, such that the planet has permanent ...

A new study led by researchers from NASA JPL has provided compelling evidence for the existence of a mantle plume beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. The post Antarctica has a Huge Mantle Plume Beneath it, Which Might Expla...

This October, scientists and artists beamed a message to GJ 273, a red dwarf also known as Luyten's star that lies 12.36 light-years from Earth and hosts two known planets, one of which, GJ 273b, may be capable of suppor...

When our Sun erupts with giant explosions--such as bursts of radiation called solar flares--we know they can affect space throughout the solar system as well as near Earth. But monitoring their effects requires having ob...

The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will move forward with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfre...

A strange visitor, either asteroid or comet, zipping through our solar system at a high rate of speed is giving astronomers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to examine up close an object from somewhere else in our gala...

"If there is lava on this planet, it would need to cover the entire surface," said Renyu Hu, astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and co-author of a study published in The Astronomical Journal. "But the lava w...

A mountaintop observatory in Mexico, built and operated by an international team of scientists, has captured the first wide-angle view of gamma rays emanating from two rapidly spinning stars. The High-Altitude Water Cher...

Dark matter, rather than pulsars, may be behind an excess of antimatter bombarding our planet --

Scientists searching for gravitational waves have confirmed yet another detection from their fruitful observing run earlier this year. Dubbed GW170608, the latest discovery was produced by the merger of two relatively li...

A newly discovered object from another star system that's passing through ours is shaped like a giant pink fire extinguisher.

Students at Southside Elementary School in Lebanon, Tennessee, will have the opportunity to speak with NASA astronauts living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 10:05 a.m. EST Monday, N...

The follow-on system has been discussed as an opportunity to exploit commercial space industry advances and design a lower cost system, possibly with a larger number of satellites that could more easily replaced if attac...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at his The Venus Transit blog.

Twice as big as Earth, the super-Earth 55 Cancri e was thought to have lava flows on its surface....

Virgin Orbit announced Nov. 16 that it has received its first launch contract for a LauncherOne mission from a Defense Department agency. SpaceNews.com

Complex chemistry in the dwarf planet’s upper atmosphere may explain one of its biggest mysteries --

An interstellar space rock seen hurtling through the solar system now has a name --

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Twice as big as Earth, the super-Earth 55 Cancri e was thought to have lava flows on its surface. The planet is so close to its star, the same side of the planet always...

Can a close look at the universe give us solutions to problems too difficult for a computer - even if we built a computer larger than a planet? Physicist Stephen Jordan reflects on this question in a new video by...   ...