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A House appropriations bill released May 8 offers more than $21.5 billion for NASA in fiscal year 2019, a significant increase over both what the agency received in 2018 and what the White House proposed for 2019. SpaceN...

When it comes to SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, the company's most daring customers have been NASA and satellite fleet operator SES. Now add Bangladesh to that mix. SpaceNews.com

Delivered to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX CRS-14, the Multi-use Variable-g Platform (MVP) is a new commercial testbed for centrifuge-based science aboard the orbiting laboratory. Because gravity determin...

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This black hole bounty consists of stellar-mass black holes, which typically weigh between 5 and 30 times the mass of the Sun....

Megan Powers has been selected by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to be the agency's press secretary, working in the Office of Communications.

Dozens of potentially habitable planets have been discovered outside our solar system, and many more are awaiting detection.

NASA has awarded five-year grants, each approximately $8 million, to three research teams that will study the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

When the solar wind - which is really a driving rain of charged particles from the sun - strikes Earth's protective magnetic field, the shock generates roiling, turbulent magnetic fields that enshroud the planet and stre...

Astronomers have discovered evidence for thousands of black holes located near the center of our Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

BepiColombo gets settled in to its temporary home base at Europe's Spaceport to prepare for launch to Mercury later this year

Last week, Ken Shen, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley --the collaboration behind the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite(map 2 above) released a data set containing the motions, and much mor...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Though long hypothesized, the first evidence for a debris disk forming a new planetary system around any star was uncovered in 1983 with NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite. Later photographs revealed an edge-on debri...

Astronomers have spotted a carbon-rich asteroid in the icy region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt -- the first such asteroid ever found to be exiled from the inner solar system.

For centuries, humans have wondered, Are we alone? and What is the universe made of? Scientists will tackle these exact questions in two documentaries, part of the new, six-episode PBS series "Nova Wonders."

Astronomers report the discovery of the first known early-type magnetic star in an eclipsing binary system. The finding, detailed in a paper published April 27 on the arXiv pre-print server, could have important implicat...

An international, interdisciplinary group of scholars working along the East African coast have discovered a major cave site which records substantial activities of hunter-gatherers and later, Iron Age communities. Detai...

For decades, scientists have pondered how Earth acquired its only satellite, the Moon. Whereas some have argued that it formed from material lost by Earth due to centrifugal force, or was captured by Earth's gravity, the...

Astronomers have found more than 3700 worlds outside of our solar system in the past 25 years. How do they find them? --

Researchers at the University of Southampton have discovered that the unique 'Bursting Pulsar' - a neutron star which steals matter from a low-mass stellar neighbour - may also be the slowest known 'transitional pulsar' ...

There actually is quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse -- an infinite number of other universes besides our own.