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A new MIT-led study has shown how the Moon once had a more powerful magnetic field than Earth and why it was lost over time. The post The Moon’s Magnetosphere Used to be Twice as Strong as the Earth’s appeared first ...

NASA lost touch with a small planet-hunting satellite in December while the telescope was in its third mission extension.

For more than a decade, astronomers across the globe have wrestled with the perplexities of fast radio bursts--intense, unexplained cosmic flashes of energy, light years away, that pop for mere milliseconds.

The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 60 Starlink internet satellites to join its growing megaconstellation in orbit today (Jan. 6), and you can watch it live online.

They have completed years of training, but before NASA's newest group of space men and women can call themselves astronauts, they need one more thing: a small lapel pin with a long history.

X-ray bursts are highly energetic releases of radiation from the surfaces of neutron stars, triggered by the explosive burning of material accumulated on the surface. It's the same type of burning that happens in the cor...

Advanced remote-sensing satellite technology is compiling a granular record of Earth’s hardest-to-reach regions --

The next rocket NASA wants to send to the moon is about to leave the house it was built in for a new home, but isn't quite ready for Kennedy Space Center.

Scientists have developed a new method for detecting oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres that may accelerate the search for life.

MethaneSAT said Jan. 6 it will use X-SAT, Blue Canyon's largest offered spacecraft bus, to carry a methane-detection payload from Ball Aerospace. SpaceNews.com

New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published today in Science Advances shows that lava flows on Venus may be only a few years old, suggesting that Venus could be volcanically active to...

Jupiter's clouds have a luminous beauty in this image taken by Juno's JunoCam camera on its 20th close pass by Jupiter....

Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a strategic space-invader-shaped array a million miles from Earth, scanning the universe at warp speed....

Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined the visible, infrared, and X-ray vision of NASA's Great Observatories to create a three-dimensional representation of the d...

This smattering of celestial sequins is a spiral galaxy named NGC 4455, located in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair). This might sound like an odd name for a constellation--and in fact it is ...

Using the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST), astronomers have detected a glitch in the radio pulsar PSR J0908'4913. The finding, detailed in a paper published December 18 on the arXiv preprint server, could...

Astronomers kicked off 2020 by welcoming the 30th anniversary year of NASA's venerable Hubble Space Telescope in Honolulu at their largest annual gathering.

An international team of astronomers funded in part by NASA has found the farthest galaxy group identified to date. Called EGS77, the trio of galaxies dates to a time when the universe was only 680 million years old, or ...

An international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to create the most detailed image yet of the gas surrounding two supermassive black holes in a merging galaxy.

A new panoramic image based on data captured by NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) shows the bustling center of our galaxy like it has never been seen before.

The most direct and strongest evidence for the accelerating universe with dark energy is provided by the distance measurements using type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) for the galaxies at high redshift. This result is based on t...

Galaxies are like snowflakes. Though the universe contains innumerable galaxies flung across time and space, no two ever look alike. One of the most photogenic is the huge spiral galaxy UGC 2885, located 232 million ligh...