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A new study using data from NASA's NuSTAR space telescope suggests that Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is accelerating particles to high energies--some of which may r...

Scientists have found that molecular oxygen around comet 67P is not produced on its surface, as some suggested, but may be from its body....

Future space probes traveling at relativistic velocities would offer a unique vantage point for studying the universe --

This November, onlookers will get to hear a so-called "quiet" sonic boom as a supersonic military jet zips through the skies of Galveston, Texas, according to NASA.

Three days after its launch from Florida, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was installed on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station's Harmony module at 9:52 a.m. EDT....

Scientists have found that molecular oxygen around comet 67P is not produced on its surface, as some suggested, but may be from its body.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A research team led by astronomers at the University of Warwick had to wait over 100 days for the sight of the first of confirmed neutron star merger to remerge from behind the glare of the Sun....

There might be no natural limit to how long humans can live -- at least not one yet in sight -- contrary to the claims of some demographers and biologists, according to a statistical analysis published Thursday in Scienc...

The dust in galaxies consists of small grains of carbon, silicon, iron, aluminium and other heavier elements. The Milky Way has a very high content of carbonaceous dust, which has been shown to be very rare in other gala...

An international research team, with participation from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, has found the same type of interstellar dust that we know from the Milky Way in a distant galaxy 11 billio...

This image of Jupiter's southern hemisphere was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on the outbound leg of a close flyby of the gas-giant planet. Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill created this image using data from the spac...

Mark Sirangelo, the longtime leader and public face of Sierra Nevada Corporation's space business, has resigned from the company for personal reasons but as part of a "friendly transition," the company confirmed July 2. ...

Lisa Pratt, the space agency’s new planetary protection officer, could soon oversee major shifts in regulations on public- and private-sector space missions --

Nearly every meteorite that falls onto Earth may ultimately come from a half dozen or so lost worlds that splintered apart soon after the birth of the solar system, a new study finds.

A new report recommends that NASA update its policies that protect planets and other solar system bodies from possible contamination during space exploration missions.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has gotten its best-ever looks at the weird bright spots that speckle the dwarf planet Ceres.

The paperback of Andy Weir's "Artemis" (Broadway Books, 2018) launches in bookstores today. Here's what Weir thinks about NASA's new plan to send astronauts to the moon and if private companies are going to get there fir...

WASHINGTON -- The revolution in space technology -- prominently seen with reusable rocketry advances and the commercial adoption of miniaturized satellites -- is also happening on the ground, according to Kratos. Less fl...

It's official: Russia's stunning victory over Spain in a 2018 World Cup match Sunday (July 1) is out of this world.

Researchers are using robotic submarines to hunt for meteorites in the ocean off the coast of Washington State.

Aspiring writers of "imaginative fiction" -- whether science fiction, fantasy or other kinds -- are in for a treat: a new update to the fiction-writing guide "Wonderbook," by Jeff VanderMeer.