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A new study from the PSI indicates that around Mars' equator, salt water could form on the surface for a few days out of the year. The post Salt Water Might Still be Able to Collect on the Surface of Mars a Few Days a Ye...

Gazing up at the night sky in a rural area, you'll probably see the shining moon surrounded by stars. If you're lucky, you might spot the furthest thing visible with the naked eye--the Andromeda galaxy. It's the nearest ...

The new "Baby Yoda" animatronic moves, giggles and babbles when you pat its head.

In the new children's book "How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure" (Random House Children's Books, 2020), award-winning author and illustrator Joh...

NASA is offering media a glimpse of astronaut training at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Tuesday, Feb. 25, before the application process opens March 2 for the next class of Artemis Generation astronauts...

Surprising new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggests the smooth, settled "brim" of the Sombrero galaxy's disk may be concealing a turbulent past. Hubble's sharpness and sensitivity resolves tens of thousands o...

"Avenue 5," HBO's new space-based comedy starring Hugh Laurie and written by Armando Iannucci has been given the go ahead to proceed to season two.

Intelsat on Feb. 19 urged the FCC to give the company at least $1 billion more of $9.7 billion in proposed compensation for clearing C-band spectrum for 5G networks and to treat the C-Band Alliance Intelsat formed with r...

Building a military space culture may not require mass transfers of Army, Navy units to the Space Force SpaceNews.com

A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and recently installed on the...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first picture of a black hole. How did Fortnite's black hole compare?

An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. These images ...

Media are invited to preview a NASA airborne science campaign to help improve weather and climate predictions at 9 a.m. EST Tuesday, Feb. 25, at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Keen to get into astronomy or stargazing, but no idea how to start? Don't worry--it's easier than you think.

The 2018 movie A.I. Rising explores how machines could fulfill desires and support humans during space travel. Lo and behold, it might contain the solution to problems related to space exploration.

While InSight's seismometer has been patiently waiting for the next big marsquake to illuminate its interior and define its crust-mantle-core structure, two scientists, Takashi Yoshizaki (Tohoku University) and Bill McDo...

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The nearest exoplanet discovered so far orbits the star Proxima Centauri, located 4.2 light-years from our planet.

Vice President Mike Pence said in a Feb. 19 speech that the administration's budget proposal for NASA to support a human return to the moon by 2024 has bipartisan support, a claim echoed by NASA despite criticism about s...

China's Yutu-2 lunar rover has discovered what appear to be relatively young rocks during its recent exploration activities on the lunar far side.

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft has beamed back stunning new images of Earth.