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Thanks to a quirk of our cosmos, the Moon's average distance from Earth is just right for it to appear as the same size in the sky as the significantly larger Sun. Once in a while the Moon slides directly between Earth a...

Russia has announced a new class of cosmonaut trainees, including the younger brother of a crew member now on board the International Space Station.

Viasat is still working on a medium-Earth-orbit satellite constellation idea revealed almost two years ago, but has not finalized what that system would look like, Mark Dankberg, CEO of Viasat, said Aug. 9. SpaceNews.com

After decades of dreaming and years of construction, NASA's Parker Solar Probe is safely on its way to flying seven times closer to the sun than any mission has before.

The detection of "mini-moons"--small asteroids temporarily captured in orbit around Earth--will vastly improve our scientific understanding of asteroids and the Earth-Moon system, says a new review published in Frontiers...

Historic space weather may help us understand what's coming next, according to new research by the University of Warwick.

On Saturday, NASA launched a bold mission to fly directly into the sun's atmosphere, with a spacecraft named the Parker Solar Probe, after solar astrophysicist Eugene Parker. The incredibly resilient vessel, vaguely shap...

Jupiter's fifth moon is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.

In the coming decades, as we gear up for a more in-depth search for life on Mars, as well as visits to potentially habitable ocean moons in the outer Solar System, should scientists start addressing the ethical concerns ...

Sound has negative mass, which means it drifts upward very slowly, a new study shows.

NASA has selected Walsh Construction Company II, LLC of Chicago to build a new Research Support Building (RSB) at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

An international team of researchers has detected hydrogen sulfide emission from the dense protoplanetary disk around the star GG Tauri A. It is the first detection of this chemical compound in a protoplanetary disk. The...

The CHIME telescope could soon deliver thousands of additional detections of the mysterious cosmic outbursts --

Astronomers are ready for the next big stellar explosion — whenever it comes.

Following the announcement that Jean-Luc Picard is returning in a new "Star Trek" series, we look at some possible directions that the new show might take.

Space Science Image of the Week: The Proba-2 satellite saw two partial solar eclipses on Saturday

See photos of the Perseid meteor shower of 2018 -- featuring fireballs, Mars and the Milky Way!

Scientists think rocks from space may be responsible for the very oldest rocks on Earth.

Brilliant displays of Perseid meteors lit up the heavens this past weekend as the annual Perseid meteor shower reached its peak.

(Lomonosov Moscow State University) A team of scientists from the Faculty of Physics and Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, MSU leading an international collaboration with members from Europe, Chile, United States, ...

(Frontiers) The detection of 'mini-moons' -- small asteroids temporarily captured in orbit around Earth -- will vastly improve our scientific understanding of asteroids and the Earth-moon system. Small and fast-moving, t...

(University of Michigan) The 2017 total solar eclipse spurred a flurry of interest about solar eclipses, according to the final report of a survey led by the University of Michigan.