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A new study proposes that alien life could evolve from nuclear interactions rather than atomic ones. The post Could There Be a Form of Life Inside Stars? appeared first on Universe Today.

The seedy Mos Eisley Cantina is home to some of the most iconic moments in the first "Star Wars" film, and soon you'll be able to recreate them on your own in Lego form.

An experimental gene treatment aboard the International Space Station demonstrates how rodents—and humans—might stay buff beyond Earth --

Falcon 9 made a rare onshore landing following its historic launch on Aug. 30.

The Insight-HXMT team has performed extensive observations of the accreting X-ray pulsar GRO J1008-57 and has discovered a magnetic field of ~1 billion Tesla on the surface of the neutron star. This is the strongest magn...

It takes oxygen to make iron rust. So when scientists discovered hematite spread widely through lunar high latitudes, they were surprised. How did that happen? A new study suggests that oxygen from Earth could be playing...

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NASA on Thursday announced it was in the market for Moon rocks, and wants to pay companies to scoop out the dirt, take a photo, and then have it ready for collection by a future mission.

Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have found that something may be missing from the theories of how dark matter behaves. This ...

Welcome to the Season Premiere for the new season of the Weekly Space Hangout! We had a productive - and yes, restful - two months during our hiatus, but it is great to be back with everyone! For tonight’s season premi...

Jupiter's moons are hot.

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will discuss predictions for the upcoming solar cycle during a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 15. Tracking the solar cycle is a key p...

Satellites have snapped true-color images of the West Coast wildfires and also detected aerosols caused by the burning material.

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NASA, which has already booked robotic rides to the lunar surface on commercial landers, now aims to pay private companies to collect moon dirt.

As soon as OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, there was a big surprise. Scientists expected Bennu's surface would consist of fine-grained material like a sandy beach. But take a look at tha...

One-hundred million light years away from Earth, an unusual supernova is exploding.

CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids.

The 'IceCube' neutrino observatory deep in the ice of the South Pole has already brought spectacular new insights into cosmic incidents of extremely high energies. In order to investigate the cosmic origins of elementary...

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano provides words of wisdom to young people on how investing their time wisely today can help build a better tomorrow.

The company’s attempts to dim the spacecraft in its megaconstellation fall short of eliminating disruptions to the world’s ground-based observatories --

The three Expedition 63 crewmates continued working on tasks aboard the International Space Station that will not only extend the outpost beyond its current 20-year tenure maximizing science in space, but also facilitate...