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Scientists may one day detect alien planets outside the Milky Way using the ripples in space and time known as gravitational waves, a new study finds.

In baseball, players receive a Gold Glove award if they show outstanding fielding play throughout the course of the season. Basically, they can't let any ball get past them when playing in the field. If a Gold Glove awar...

Using some cosmic detective work, a team of researchers has found evidence that tiny pieces of asteroids from the inner solar system may have crossed a gap to the outer solar system, a feat once thought to be unlikely......

Eavesdropping on the shudders and groans echoing deep inside alien worlds like Mars and the moon is revealing what lies far beneath their surfaces and could teach us more about how our own planet formed.

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Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen....

The coronavirus pandemic has slowed some work on the first ViaSat-3 broadband satellite, making a launch in mid-2021 unlikely, Viasat CEO Mark Dankberg said Aug. 7. SpaceNews

Liquid water, once thought unique to Earth, may be common on icy worlds throughout the solar system.

For a few months in 2018, as NASA's Dawn spacecraft used up its last drops of fuel, it gave scientists an incredibly detailed look at one of the strangest places in the solar system: Occator Crater.

The dwarf planet Ceres--long believed to be a barren space rock--is an ocean world with reservoirs of sea water beneath its surface, the results of a major exploration mission showed Monday.

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A new experiment on ultra-rare astatine could open the door to cancer treatments and new research into super-heavy atoms.

A new theoretical method paves the way to modeling the interior of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune, thanks to computer simulations on the water contained within them. The tool, developed by scientists from SISSA in Tri...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Magnetars are the ultimate aggressive star: intense magnetic fields, massive outbursts, the works. We’ve known that magnetars are capable of producing some of the most powerful blasts in the cosmos, but new observation...

By conducting deep photometric and medium-resolution spectroscopic observations, Russian astronomers have investigated Palomar 3, a distant galactic globular cluster. Results of this observational campaign provide more i...

SpaceNews talks with top NOAA officials about the agency's strategy for replacing its current constellation, the breadth of concepts it's considering and the path to defining a next-generation architecture. SpaceNews

A team of physicists has devised a simple way to measure the duration of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum tunneling.

While some hazards of spaceflight and the space environment -- like G-forces, radiation, vibration and microgravity -- are well documented, many risks remain unknown.

The barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 4907 shows its starry face from 270 million light-years away to anyone who can see it from the Northern Hemisphere. This is a new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of th...

If we’re all living in a simulation, as some have suggested, it would be a good, albeit risky, way to find out for sure --

(University of California - Davis) UC Davis will be part of a new Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures focusing on understanding the physics and astrophysical implications of matter under pressures so high that the stru...