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NASA researchers received an extra special gift this holiday season: a box of Apollo moon soil to study in the new year.

Astronomers have been watching a nearby pulsar with a strange halo around it. That pulsar might answer a question that’s puzzled astronomers for some time. The pulsar is named Geminga, and it’s one of the nearest pul...

Billions of years ago, in the center of a galaxy cluster far, far away (15 billion light-years, to be exact), a black hole spewed out jets of plasma. As the plasma rushed out of the black hole, it pushed away material, c...

... and sometimes crashed to Earth.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas....

Five Proton rockets launched this year -- four for the Russian government and one for International Launch Services, which sells commercial missions. SpaceNews.com

On Dec. 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts beamed home gorgeous images of Earth as seen from lunar orbit, read some verses from the book of Genesis and wished folks around the world a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

#24 in our top science stories of 2019.

SpaceX said Dec. 23 that it completed the tenth successful consecutive test of the new parachute design for its Crew Dragon spacecraft, a milestone that NASA previously said was critical before the agency would allow ast...

#25 in our top science stories of 2019.

Fortunately for today's scientists, Apollo-era leaders had the foresight to save much of the 842 pounds (382 kilograms) of Moon soil and rocks retrieved by NASA astronauts 50 years ago for future generations. They figure...

"The Expanse" cast members are quipping that they are one step closer to shooting on location.

Based on the first data release (DR1) from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), astronomers have derived fundamental parameters of nearly 30,000 M-dwarf stars. The research paper presen...

It is apparent that one area that can be changed is to remove from the WRC process non-mission critical issues, such as the identification of spectrum, especially when there are other global bodies that can achieve simil...

Three lunar missions, commercial spaceflight milestones, the first all-woman spacewalk -- 2019 was a busy year in space for public and private entities alike.

The revamped "Mark 3" parachute for SpaceX's Crew Dragon astronaut taxi just passed its 10th test in a row, company representatives announced via Twitter Monday (Dec. 23).

(Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University) The article refers to the issue of the 'Dark Enegry' and an assumption is made that the Universe has borders.

(American Institute of Physics) Scientists have developed space junk identification systems, but it has proven tricky to pinpoint the swift, small specks of space litter. A unique set of algorithms for laser ranging tele...

The two Northrop Grumman-manufactured aft exit cones for the Space Launch System's solid rocket boosters arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida....

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 2051, a galaxy in the southern constellation of Mensa (the Table Mountain) lying about 85 million light-years away....