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India's Chandrayaan-2 mission has marked another milestone in its journey to the moon, leaving Earth's orbit and heading toward lunar orbit with an engine burn.

Researchers have found white dwarf stars with masses close to the maximum stable mass (called the Chandrasekhar mass) are likely to produce large amounts of manganese, iron, and nickel after it orbits another star and ex...

As NASA gears up a decade-long effort to return samples from Mars, some scientists are worried that the campaign may not leave any funding available for other robotic missions to the planet. SpaceNews.com

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, joined by U.S. Representatives Mo Brooks, Robert Aderholt, Scott DesJarlais and Brian Babin, will discuss updates on the agency's plans for landing humans on the Moon by 2024 through t...

By examining Antarctic snow, researchers have for the first time discovered interstellar dust that recently fell to Earth, a new study finds.

On Aug. 13, astronauts aboard the International Space Station took a striking image of a full moon.

Australian farmers are celebrating the start of less restrictive satellite internet from the country's twin Sky Muster broadband satellites. SpaceNews.com

What, exactly, is the inside of a neutron star like? A neutron star is what remains after a massive star goes supernova. It’s a tightly-packed, ultra-dense body made of--you guessed it--neutrons. Actually, that’s not...

The private Dream Chaser space plane has a new ride to the International Space Station.

The largest planets in our solar system could have drifted away from the sun much sooner than scientists previously thought, one new study suggests.

CEO Peter Beck of Rocket Lab recently announced that his company will begin retrieving the first stage of its Electron rocket with a helicopter. The post Rocket Lab is Going to try to Re-use its First Stage Booster, Catc...

Iron traces in snowfall originated in a stellar explosion millions of years ago --

A colossal, head-on collision between Jupiter and a still-forming planet in the early solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago, could explain surprising readings from NASA's Juno spacecraft, according to a study this we...

Jupiter's dilute core could have been formed by a head-on collision 4.5 billion years ago, one new study suggests.

NCCR PlanetS: New interior models of Jupiter based on data gathered by NASA's Juno mission suggested that the giant gas planet might not have a small compact core but rather a diluted, "fuzzy" one. Now, an international ...

The Chinese company LinkSpace successfully flew a rocket prototype on its highest flight yet, then nailed the landing as the firm pursues reusable spaceflight technology.

The International Space Station will soon see U.S., Russian and Japanese spaceships arriving and departing over the next several weeks....

Supernovae, neutron star mergers, black holes at the center of galaxies, erupting young stars--these are all examples of objects in the night sky that change their brightness over time. In the coming years, astronomers e...

SciGirls viewers from New York will have an opportunity on Monday, Aug. 19, to talk live with NASA astronaut Christina Koch aboard the International Space Station.

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano made space (and music) history on 13 August when he broadcast the first DJ music set from orbit, performing to an audience of over 3000 people as part of the BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME Crui...

Even though the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is a monster, it's still rather quiet. Called Sagittarius A*, it's about 4.6 million times more massive than the sun. Usually, it's a brooding behemoth. But scien...

"Black holes" is one of the most highly searched terms about our universe. There's a fascination with the idea of a region of space having a gravitational pull so strong, nothing can escape its deadly grasp, not even a s...