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Where did Saturn’s bizarro-moon Titan form? Did it form where it is now, or has it migrated? We have decades of data to look back on, so scientists should have some idea. A new study based on all that data says that Ti...

We'll have to wait a bit longer still to see NASA's next big space telescope get off the ground.

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who recently became the first crew to fly in SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, talk about the "overview effect" and their first week of work in space.

The SASC markup of the 2021 NDAA includes several Space Force provisions but none on acquisition reforms. SpaceNews.com

NASA has selected Astrobotic to deliver a rover to the surface of the moon in late 2023 to prospect for water ice that could support future human missions. SpaceNews.com

How did Earth evolve from an ocean of magma to the vibrant, life-supporting, blue jewel it is now? In its early years, the Earth was a blistering hot ball of magma. Now, 4.5 billion years later, it’s barely recognizabl...

NASA has tapped the company Astrobotic to land the VIPER moon rover at the lunar south pole in 2023.

On May 30, 2020, millions of Americans watched the inaugural SpaceX Crew Dragon launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission marked two significant events: First, the return of launch to orbit ...

NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh $199.5 million to deliver NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon's South Pole in late 2023.

Analysis of gas motion in 20 nearby spiral galaxies has revealed a clear difference between those with bars and those without bars. This suggests that already available data on gas motion can be used to study bars in spi...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope, astronomers have conducted X-ray observations and near-infrared imaging of a protostar named HOPS 383. The monitoring campa...

Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) examined the fate of the young star V1298 Tau and its four orbiting exoplanets. The results show that these recently born planets are roasted by the in...

A team of scientists, including Chief Investigator Ilya Mandel from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at Monash University, recently studied what happens to rotating massive stars whe...

Astronauts will get some next-gen training before they ride Boeing's next-gen spacecraft.

Ten NFL players are officially part of the NASA family after completing internships at the space agency.

Scientists have generated an exotic form of matter in the unique microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station and are using it to explore the quantum world, a new study finds.

The first fast radio burst detected in our galaxy comes from a magnetized star, and could help to explain these cosmic enigmas --

A launch vehicle processing "hiccup" has pushed back next month's launch of NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission by three days. SpaceNews.com

Image: A new online platform that allows for the tracking of air pollution worldwide is now available to the public.

The new research by scientists at NASA and the Italian Space Agency has implications for the entire Saturn system as well as other planets and moons....

(Harvard Medical School) Harvard Medical School neuroscientists have discovered a population of neurons in the hypothalamus that controls hibernation-like behavior, or torpor, in mice, revealing for the first time the ne...

(Durham University) Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from space for the first time -- a discovery that could teach us more about the early universe.