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The only woman in space right now made a special presentation for International Women's Day this Monday (March 9).

The cost of NASA's Space Launch System has grown to the point where the agency must notify Congress and perform a formal reassessment of the program, NASA's inspector general concluded in a March 10 report. SpaceNews.com

It's been said that dust built the Universe. And it turns out dust may be the culprit for building up what are likely false hopes of soon witnessing a massive supernova for the star Betelgeuse. Late last year, both amate...

NASA is keeping watch for more potential impacts the new coronavirus may have on the U.S. space program, according to NASA chief Jim Bridenstine.

Using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), researchers have found more than 300 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), minor planets located in the far reaches of the solar system, including more than 100 new discoveries. Pu...

Performer Lindsey Stirling made an (almost)-out-of-this-world performance within view of the launch pad that could send people to the moon in 2024.

Has humanity been doing it all wrong? We’re busy staring off into space with our futuristic, ultra-powerful telescopes, mesmerized by ethereal nebulae and other wondrous objects, and trying to tease out the Universe’...

A new paper by researchers from the University of York proposed a new candidate for Dark Matter, known as the d-star hexaquark. The post Is the “D-star Hexaquark” the Dark Matter Particle? appeared first on Universe ...

A 24-hour day seems so natural here on Earth, but 70 million years ago, that would have felt leisurely to creatures accustomed to making do with just 23.5.

Students from New York City will have an opportunity this week to talk with a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

Earthly slime mold models have helped astronomers map the cosmic web that connects galaxies throughout the universe.

The supply of high-throughput satellite capacity is projected to increase twelvefold by 2024 from where it was in 2019, according to a new report by research firm Euroconsult. SpaceNews.com

Elizabeth Driscoll, business development director at Spaceflight, said the company is constantly in need of more launch options, but won't rush to new vehicles without confidence they will deliver. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers have spotted the exotic signature of iron rain in the atmosphere of the huge, scorching-hot exoplanet WASP-76 b.

Researchers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed an extreme planet where they suspect it rains iron. The ultra-hot giant exoplanet has a day side where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees Celsius, high ...

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According to a new report, Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s - currently on track with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's worst-case climate warming scenario.

Where have all the planets gone in early 2020? While all of the naked eye planets are hiding in the early dawn sky, one world dominates the evening: brilliant Venus. The post Following the Inner Worlds: Mercury and Venus...

Using data from various astronomical surveys, a team of researchers from China and India has investigated four poorly studied open clusters in our Milky Way galaxy. The new study, presented in a paper published March 5 o...

Leaders in the commercial space industry are optimistic that the coronavirus outbreak won't unduly affect the launch industry, while SpaceX is confident in a May timeline to loft humans for the first time.

The five main string-theory candidates may all just be pieces of a larger, cohesive whole -- and M-theory could bring them together.

This year's first supermoon will potentially grace the sky on February 9.