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Auroras and satellite function might be influenced by ''bubbles'' of plasma near the tail of Earth's magnetosphere.

LightSail 2 deployed it solar sail five months ago, and it’s still orbiting Earth. It’s a successful demonstration of the potential of solar sail spacecraft. Now the LightSail 2 team at The Planetary Society has rele...

Astrophysicists have come a step closer to understanding the origin of a faint glow of gamma rays covering the night sky....

A device that uses electricity generated by plants as its power source has communicated via satellite--a world first.

The Air Force Research Laboratory's X-60A program recently achieved a key developmental milestone with the completion of integrated vehicle propulsion system verification ground testing.

A study by the Aerospace Corporation says ending the New START Treaty could destabilize outer space. SpaceNews.com

The second all-female spacewalk in history continued the work of the first, as NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch upgraded batteries outside of the International Space Station.

The black hole at the center of our galaxy is warping and combining stars into a strange new kind of object, astronomers say.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) says their underwater robot has just completed the first-ever automated underwater sampling operation. The robot is called Nereid Under Ice (NEI) and it collected the sampl...

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Beth Johnson (@planetarypan) Moiya McTier ( / @GoAstroMo) This week we welcome Dr. Erin Macdonald to the W...

Scientists have traced the journey of phosphorous, one of the essential building blocks for life as we know it on Earth, through space.

Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis are taking the temperature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about a quarter of our universe.

Astronomers have spotted another possible planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, which lies just 4.2 light-years from the sun.

Located just 4.2 light-years away, the star Proxima Centauri now has both an Earth-like world in its habitable zone and a more distant super-Earth.

Alien lifeforms are impossible to spot.

Astronomers from UCLA's Galactic Center Orbits Initiative have discovered a new class of bizarre objects at the center of our galaxy, not far from the supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. They published their r...

Swirling around our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, these objects share properties with both stars and gas clouds --

Two cosmic love birds lit the way to the discovery of dark matter, and a new Hubble image features a behemoth galaxy that played a part in the groundbreaking finding.

A new model suggests that the star Betelgeuse committed an act of cannibalism.

According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth's global surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880.

Using ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft, astronomers have conducted X-ray observations of a peculiar Cepheid variable star known as V473 Lyr. Results of the study suggest that this star has a young, low-mass companion. The fin...

Two NASA astronauts ventured out Wednesday on a second all-female spacewalk to finish upgrades to the International Space Station's power grid, but quickly ran into a helmet problem.