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A "cold Neptune" and two potentially habitable worlds are part of a cache of five newly discovered exoplanets and eight exoplanet candidates found orbiting nearby red dwarf stars, which are reported in The Astrophysical ...

Two new sunspots have ended a long period of relative quiet on the surface of our blazing host star, heralding the start of a new 11-year cycle of sunspot activity.

Bogus beetles, nonexistent giant sculptures and other "discoveries" on the Red Planet distract us from the exciting research that’s actually going on --

Using the SOFIA telescope, a team of NASA astronomers have conducted the most detailed survey of the interior of the Swan Nebula to date. The post New View of the Swan Nebula From NASA’s Airborne SOFIA Telescope appear...

Few know the globe's nooks and crannies more intimately than Kathryn Sullivan -- explorer and student of the sky and the sea.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

Pence: "The next year is going to be a busy year and we are going to see literally thousands of Air Force personnel move into the Space Force." SpaceNews.com

The SuperTIGER-2 flight just completed its second tour around Antarctica in its mission to determine the origin and nature of cosmic rays. The post Balloon-Based Cosmic Ray Observatory is Now on its Second Trip Around An...

Ellen Lord: A reorganization of the U.S. Space Force's acquisition bureaucracy should not harm space programs SpaceNews.com

An international research team, with significant participation of astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), has gained important insights into the origin of the material in the spiral arms of the Mi...

NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the SpaceX Crew Dragon launch escape demonstration, as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program, which is working with U.S. companies to ...

The astronauts of Expedition 61 have tackled some historic spacewalks at the International Space Station, including the first all-woman spacewalk and four of the most challenging spacewalks ever.

NASA’s TESS spacecraft identified the unusual world around a red dwarf --

The US Navy confirmed they have secret, classified documents regarding a 2004 UFO encounter, but releasing them could 'gravely damage' national security.

Researchers are busy analysing some of the final data sent back from the Cassini spacecraft which has been in orbit around Saturn for more than 13 years until the end of its mission in September 2017.

String theory is a powerful idea, unfinished and untested, but one that has persisted for decades despite inauspicious beginnings.

ESA Space Science:

Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir captured the world's attention with their historic all-woman spacewalk at the end of 2019. The 2020s is beginning with the duo scheduled to repeat their historic first twice by ...

Lego Education is launching a new line to teach engineering and robotics concepts to kids in a celebration of sorts for the STEAM-focused toy division's 40th anniversary.

Every season has its characteristic star constellations in the night sky. Orion--one of the most recognizable--is distinctly visible on crisp, clear winter nights in the northern hemisphere. The constellation is easy to ...

A new study by a group of researchers at the University of Birmingham has found that collisions of supermassive black holes may be simultaneously observable in both gravitational waves and X-rays at the beginning of the ...

Galaxies. Amalgamations of stars, interstellar gas, dust, stellar debris and dark matter. They waltz through the cold universe, gravity nurturing their embrace. Occasionally, galaxies snowball into enormous galaxy cluste...