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The newly discovered comet Neowise is only visible from Earth once every 6,800 years, and photographers who want to document it seek places with high elevation and little smog or light pollution. A place like North Carol...

The Democratic Party has voiced their support for NASA, a continued presence on the International Space Station and crewed missions to the moon and Mars.

For just the second time ever, astrophysicists have spotted a spectacular flash of ultraviolet (UV) light accompanying a white dwarf explosion....

Natural processes here on Earth continually re-shape the planet’s surface. Craters from ancient asteroid strikes are erased in a short period of time, in geological terms. So how can researchers understand Earth’s hi...

Can't get enough of summer? Saturn's northern hemisphere is also in the throes of the season, and the Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new photo of the ringed planet to celebrate.

China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country's Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars's surface by early next yea...

NASA's Juno Jupiter probe has captured unprecedented views of the largest moon in the solar system.

The Falkland Islands are featured in this radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission....

Work has begun on an ambitious new mission that will carry a cutting-edge 8.4-foot (2.5-meter) telescope high into the stratosphere on a balloon. Tentatively planned to launch in December 2023 from Antarctica, ASTHROS (s...

"There's a difference between debate and toxicity. Debate is essential."

Members of a NASA safety panel expressed continued concern about quality issues with Boeing's commercial crew spacecraft while cautiously supporting SpaceX's plans to fly reused spacecraft on future crewed missions. Spac...

An observatory affiliated with NASA's quest to identify potentially dangerous asteroids spotted something equally speedy but not quite as natural: a spacecraft bound for Mars.

A prestigious pair of astronomers have published a paper recommending that a gravitational wave observatory be built on the far side of the Moon. The post The Moon is an Ideal Spot for a Gravitational Wave Observatory ap...

The Mercury 13 were a group of female pilots who passed the first astronaut tests, but weren't allowed to work for NASA because of their gender.

Most meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of planetesimals, the very earliest protoplanetary bodies in the solar system. Scientists have thought that these primordial bodies either completely melted early i...

The British government expects to soon release a comprehensive set of regulations that will enable companies to perform commercial launches from spaceports in the country. SpaceNews

Astra's Rocket 3.1 is scheduled to launch from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Alaska's Kodiak Island during a six-day window that opens on Aug. 2.

A notable feature of most spiral galaxies is the multitude of arching spiral arms that seemingly spin out from the galaxy's center. In this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the stunning silvery-blue...

Week in images: 20-24 July 2020 Discover our week through the lens

On its way inbound for a Dec. 26, 2019, flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew in the proximity of the north pole of the ninth-largest object in the solar system, the moon Ganymede. The infrared imagery collected ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The brightest comet to appear in Northern Hemisphere skies in nearly a quarter of a century will soon be ending its run as a naked-eye object.