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A new kind of astronomical observation helped reveal the possible evolutionary history of a baby Neptune-like exoplanet.

Late last summer, NASA and the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (a.k.a WGPSN) approved the naming convention for features on Bennu, the asteroid currently being orbited a...

An international research team led by members of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) has obtained new measurements of how big neutron stars are. To do so, they combined a g...

As the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak grows worldwide, executives believe the space industry will not be immune from its effects but also may not be hurt as badly as other sectors. SpaceNews.com

The next National Space Council policy directive is likely to be on cybersecurity for space. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Ames Research Center in California has issued a mandatory call for employees to work from home after one worker tested positive for the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19.

SpaceX has no plans to make Starlink a separate business, Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and chief executive, said March 9. SpaceNews.com

The proposed 2021 budget could cancel Odyssey by default due to timing challenges.

After 20 years in operation, SETI@home program recently announced that it is taking a hiatus to sort through the mountain of data they've accumulated. The post Seti@home is on Pause. Unfortunately, it’s not Because The...

As coronavirus continues to spread around the world, lawmakers suggest another measure to prevent the spread of disease: a Vulcan greeting.

ULA's Tory Bruno: "We are limiting non essential business travel but that doesn't include launch and rockets." SpaceNews.com

Monday (March 9) marked the kickoff of the third season of the venerable "Cosmos" series on the National Geographic channel.

Photographers celebrated the first "supermoon" of the year by capturing some breathtaking images of the bigger-than-usual full moon over the U.S. Capitol and New York City.

The building blocks of life can, and did, spontaneously assemble under the right conditions. That’s called spontaneous generation, or abiogenesis. Of course, many of the details remain hidden to us, and we just don’t...

Scientists at The University of New Mexico have found that the Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen as previously thought according to a new study released today in Nature Geos...

Astronomers scouring the cosmos for new planets have made a chance discovery, identifying the rare eclipse of two brown dwarfs.

Scientists in Hungary claim to have found a new particle that reveals a fifth force of nature.

It's not easy for commercial geospatial intelligence products to make their way into day-to-day operations of defense and intelligence agencies. SpaceNews.com

We've compiled this list of Picard's 10 greatest moments over the course of TNG.

Astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft had survived an explosion and reduced oxygen before their next tricky venture, on April 14, 1970: a 25-minute pass by the far side of the moon, out of communication with Earth.

A computational approach inspired by the growth patterns of a bright yellow slime mold has enabled a team of astronomers and computer scientists at UC Santa Cruz to trace the filaments of the cosmic web that connects gal...

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