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Only seven months after NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission wrapped its last field campaign on the world's largest island, an OMG crew is back in Greenland to collect more data....

The farthest object ever explored is slowly revealing its secrets, as scientists piece together the puzzles of Ultima Thule - the Kuiper Belt object NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past on New Year's Day, four billio...

People always want to know how old everything is. And more specifically, they want to know how we know how old everything is. Well, here at Astronomy Cast, it’s our job to tell you now only what we know, but how we kno...

In a letter to Shanahan, lawmakers point out New Mexico is home to dozens of space-focused government and private sector organizations. SpaceNews.com

Less than three months after the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past a distant, cold space rock, scientists are beginning to piece together the story of how that object, nicknamed Ultima Thule, came to be.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array): Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research in Japan,the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden,and the University of Virginia in the USA and collab...

This Pi Day (March 14), experts gathered at MIT to discuss the future of space exploration and they found that it will depend on collaboration, determination and increasing access.

The eccentric orbit of the Martian moon Phobos could drive the flow of powder across its surface, a new study finds, shedding light on the moon's mysterious origins.

SpaceX plans to launch the first commercial mission of its Falcon Heavy megarocket early next month, according to CNBC.

SpaceX could begin initial tests of a prototype of the company's next-generation Starship vehicle as soon as this week, Elon Musk says.

Journalist Jacques Tiziou's son is seeking help in finding a home for the myriad of documents, memorabilia and "space junk" that his late father left behind.

OneWeb's dream of blanketing the globe in affordable, abundant broadband took an important step toward reality Feb. 27 when a Russian rocket lifted off from South America to deliver six French-built satellites into low E...

This study, which has combined images from the Hubble Space Telescope with spectroscopic observations from the GTC, has confirmed the existence of a new example of a gravitational lens, a phenomenon predicted by Albert E...

Japan's space agency said Monday that its Hayabusa2 spacecraft will follow up last month's touchdown on a distant asteroid with another risky mission--dropping an explosive on the asteroid to make a crater and then colle...

Less than a month after the launch of its first six satellites, OneWeb closed a new $1.25 billion financing round to further its internet constellation. SpaceNews.com

ANU scientists have found that Earth is made of the same elements as the Sun but has less of the volatile elements such as hydrogen, helium, oxygen and nitrogen.

All massive galaxies are believed to host supermassive black holes (SMBH) at their centers that grow by accreting mass from their environment. The current picture also imagines that the black holes grow in size as their ...

Japan wants to build the ultimate moon rover for astronauts and has tapped Toyota to help develop a futuristic, off-road, lunar vehicle that could potentially launch in 2029.

The early Earth's worldwide sea of magma may have been shaped by the young planet's rapid spin.

The rule for determining when Easter Sunday takes place is simple -- so why isn't Easter in March this year?

SpaceX could begin initial tests of a prototype of the company's next-generation Starship vehicle as soon as this week, Elon Musk said March 17. SpaceNews.com