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Even in star clusters, families tend to stick together, and stellar "siblings" don't leave each other's sides for billions of years.

Media accreditation is open for the launch of Northrop Grumman's 12th commercial resupply services mission aboard its Cygnus spacecraft to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International...

For a rocky planet, finding the length of a day can be simple. Just pick a reference point and watch how long it takes to rotate out of view, then back into view. But for planets like Saturn, it’s not so simple. There ...

Hundreds of orbiting comets and asteroids are thought to present some risk of colliding with Earth, but the threat is typically very small.

Some of the lakes on Saturn's huge moon Titan may sit in craters blasted out by liquid-nitrogen bombs, a new study suggests.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Monday the selection of Clayton Turner as the next director of the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

Capt. Jean-Luc Picard's best fashion moments from 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'

According to a new study by a team of Japanese researchers, gravitational wave detectors could be used to confirm the existence of a major Dark Matter candidate. The post Gravitational Wave Detectors Might be Able to Det...

Orders for geostationary satellites are beginning to rebound in a market is far more varied than in the past. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX received a contract to launch the first seven O3b mPower satellites using Falcon 9 rockets, the companies announced Sept. 9. SpaceNews.com

Just as people of the same age can vary greatly in appearance and shape, so do collections of stars or stellar aggregates. New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that chronological age alone do...

Using radar data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, recently published research presents a new scenario to explain why some methane-filled lakes on Saturn's moon Titan are surrounded by steep rims that reach hundreds of fee...

The final chapter of the historic detection of the powerful merger of two neutron stars in 2017 officially has been written....

Using radar data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, recently published research presents a new scenario to explain why some methane-filled lakes on Saturn's moon Titan are surrounded by steep rims that reach hundreds of fee...

Eutelsat Chief Executive Rodolphe Belmer said his company decided last week to leave the C-Band Alliance because the group didn't pay sufficient attention to the company's concerns. SpaceNews.com

The wildfires that have been devastating the Amazon rainforest have been international headline news over the last weeks....

Following the success of last year's ɸ-week, this year's event promises to be even more exciting. With the conference room packed to the gunwales, ɸ-week 2019 kicked off this afternoon at ESA's centre of Earth observat...

China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, known as FAST, is the world's most sensitive listening device. The single-dish radio telescope is made of 4,450 individual panels that scan the sky, detectin...

No signals have been received from the lander, but attempts are underway to establish communication --

An Apollo astronaut's car that was custom-styled after his spacecraft's colors is set to land on the National Mall and in the Library of Congress.

The quest to contact India's silent moon lander after hints of a crash continues, with images suggesting Vikram remains in one piece on the lunar surface.

Students from Kentucky will have an opportunity this week to talk live with NASA astronauts currently working and living aboard the International Space Station.