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This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a globular cluster: a spherical collection of stars bound together by gravity. Clusters like this orbit around galaxies and typically reside in their outer and less-crow...

A team from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering that designed a greenhouse for Mars has been announced the winner of the 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge today at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia....

A NASA decision last month to replace an instrument on the Europa Clipper mission with a less expensive, but less capable, alternative is leaving scientists concerned about the ability of the mission to meet some of its ...

This is in addition to the "Lower Decks" that's coming to CBS All Access.

'The Road Not Taken' is a roller-coaster ride uninhibited by the laws of physics.

Microsoft is celebrating the birth of our favorite "Alien" xenomorph with an epic "Alien" film franchise sale.

How time is coordinated around the world.

The stage is set for Krypton's return.

Portugal just became the latest country to establish its own national space agency.

Remember that little ship that's speeding away from the Imperial Star Destroyer in the first moments of the first-ever "Star Wars" film, "A New Hope"? Lego will now have a Tantive IV available for assembly.

Vein scans and eye checks were on the schedule today as the Expedition 59 crew continues ongoing biomedical studies....

Fifty years after "Charlie Brown" and "Snoopy" circled the moon, the Peanuts characters are now dotting the sky at NASA.

Nearly 50 years since man first walked on the moon, the human race is once more pushing forward with attempts to land on the Earth's satellite. This year alone, China has landed a robotic spacecraft on the far side of th...

Our week through the lens: 22 - 26 April 2019

New Chinese launch firm Space Transportation carried out a test April 22 in northwest China in cooperation with Xiamen University, launching a 3,700-kilogram technology demonstrator named Jiageng-1. SpaceNews.com

We don't really understand neutron stars. Oh, we know that they are - they're the leftover remnants of some of the most massive stars in the universe - but revealing their inner workings is a little bit tricky, because t...

Astronomers found the size of the smallest star measured to date by tracking the shadows of nearby asteroids.

You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? The perfect movie.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Astronomers studying black hole SagA* have to deal with the weird, frustrating little star that lit up right between Earth and the black hole in 2013.

...and break the laws of physics.

A very strange series of memos arrived at the White House during the fall of 2017.