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There's something flashing us on the moon, and we don't know what it is. But that might be about to change.

Isolated for billions of years, a galaxy with more dark matter packed into its core than expected has been identified by astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Astronomers have photographed two newborn alien worlds circling the young sun-like star PDS 70, which lies about 370 light-years from Earth, a new study reports.

Japanese astronomers have captured images of an astonishing 1800 supernovae. 58 of these supernovae are the scientifically-important Type 1a supernovae located 8 billion light years away. Type 1a supernovae are known as ...

According to a new study, future NASA missions to Mars should look for "pasta-like" mineral structures, which are an indication of ancient bacteria here on Earth. The post Rovers on Mars should be searching for rocks tha...

The world's largest airplane may be grounded after just one flight.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is returning to Earth today (June 3) after spending nearly a month docked at the International Space Station (ISS).

Europe's future Mars rover has a place to call home while en route to Red Planet discoveries. The European Space Agency opened its new rover operations control center May 30 in Turin, Italy.

Three companies are receiving millions of dollars apiece to ferry payloads to the moon’s surface in 2020 and 2021 --

The 50th anniversary of You-Know-What is coming up and LEGO is getting in on the celebration. The much-beloved company has released a replica of the Apollo 11 Eagle Lunar Lander. The new lander is part of LEGO’s Creato...

A new idea in the quest to find life beyond Earth --

A spacecraft powered by sunlight is expected to launch on June 22, capping off a yearslong odyssey for The Planetary Society.

Six decades ago, a magnificent red splotch spread across the sky -- and now, scientists think that by piecing together footage of the event, they better understand even older auroras.

The Expedition 59 crew is starting the weekend preparing the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft for its departure from the International Space Station on Monday....

Astronomers have directly imaged two exoplanets that are gravitationally carving out a wide gap within a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star. While over a dozen exoplanets have been directly imaged, this is only...

Space Science Image of the Week: Each of these five Ariane 5s launched one of our space science missions

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Isolated for billions of years, a galaxy with more dark matter packed into its core than expected has been identified by astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory....

An article published in the SPIE publication Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS), "Polarization Modeling and Predictions for DKIST Part 5: Impacts of enhanced mirror and dichroic coatings...

"When Sequoia data come out, I want to wow people," said Capella CEO Payam Banazadeh. "I want them to say, 'I can't believe that image came from a small satellite.'" SpaceNews.com

NASA is sending four technology missions that will help improve future spacecraft design and performance into space on the next SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch. Experts will discuss these technologies, and how they com...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: