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Traditional rockets won't get us to the stars. Some scientists are pushing against the edges of physics to find out what will --

The sun's solar wind affects nearly everything in the solar system. It can disrupt the function of Earth's satellites and creates the lights of the auroras.

NASA's newest planet-hunting satellite has discovered a type of planet missing from our own solar system.

A new study reveals why many meteors, when they enter Earth's atmosphere, become cone-shaped as they heat up. The post As Meteorites Slice Through the Atmosphere, They’re Sculpted Into Cones appeared first on Universe ...

When women entered NASA's astronaut corps, the agency had a tough time figuring out what they might need.

The U.S. House of Representatives have passed a bill to change the name of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST.) Instead of that explanatory yet cumbersome name, it will be named after American astronomer Vera Rubi...

After picking up a film magazine that Neil Armstrong dropped on the moon, one NASA photographer accidentally became the first person in the world to touch moon dust.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

The Milky Way was born in violence, and scientists are still piecing together a picture of the crime scene.

Tonight, the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids meteor showers will share the night sky in a spectacular double meteor shower.

NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has discovered three new worlds -- one slightly larger than Earth and two of a type not found in our solar system -- orbiting a nearby star.....

Anyone gazing at the summer night sky for even a short length of time is likely to spot a few "shooting stars" darting across the sky.

NASA's newest planet hunter has bagged three more trophies, two of which may help scientists better understand how worlds form and evolve.

Astronauts are to test the world's first space mining devices, in an advance that could open up a new frontier in exploring the universe.

A new study spearheaded by Earth scientists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Geology and Mineralogy has constrained the age of the Moon to approximately 50 million years after the formation of the solar system...

Two 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 12:01 p.m. EDT....

The SpaceX Dragon space freighter is on its way to the International Space Station following a Thursday launch from Florida....

Simulations in a new study show how hurricanes can form even in a cool, dry climate.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

This image, based on observations from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the largest mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres.

Every now and then, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope glimpses a common object--say, a spiral galaxy--in an interesting or unusual way. A sharply angled perspective, such as the one shown in this Hubble image, can make...

The universe, perhaps surprisingly, is not comprised of galaxies randomly distributed throughout space; that is, it is not very homogeneous. Instead, its galaxies are clustered into distinct structures, typically giganti...