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When you look up at the night sky, how do you know whether the specks of light that you see are bright and far away, or relatively faint and close by? One way to find out is to compare how much light the object actually ...

Northrop Grumman will launch NASA cargo from Virginia tonight (Oct. 1) and it may be visible on the U.S. East Coast. Here's how to watch.

If a solar system is a family, then some planets leave home early. Whether they want to or not. Once they’ve left the gravitational embrace of their family, they’re pretty much destined to drift through interstellar ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will have a German-French rover on board when it is launched in 2024. The rover will land on the Martian moon Phobos and explore its s...

The grand discovery of alien life is likely to come in the form of frustratingly subtle chemical clues.

Sometime between March 2010 and May 2012, a meteor streaked across the Martian sky and broke into pieces, slamming into the planet's surface. The resulting craters were relatively small--just 13 feet (4 meters) in diamet...

The first NASA-branded product from OROS, an outerwear company that was built around a space-age insulator, the 39A flight jacket launched for sale today (Oct. 1).

A new report used the growth of China's space program to argue for continued support of NASA's own exploration ambitions as well as legislation to assist the space industry and space traffic management. SpaceNews

NASA's first new space potty in decades--a $23 million titanium toilet better suited for women--is getting a not-so-dry run at the International Space Station before eventually flying to the moon.

China has revealed that it is working on a new rocket that could send astronauts to the moon for lunar landing missions.

NASA just launched a citizen-science project called Planet Patrol, which asks volunteers around the world to sort through images collected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

The Expedition 63 crew continues preparing for Sunday's scheduled space delivery of nearly 8,000 pounds of supplies and gear aboard Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter....

The NASA Lunar Deep Freeze Challenge is looking for innovative ideas on how to bring back ice samples from the Moon The post NASA Has a New Challenge to Bring Frozen Samples of the Moon Back to Earth appeared first on Un...

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This week, we welcome Dr. John Kiss from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro (UNCG). Tonight, Dr. Kiss will be discussing the sensory physiology of plants in space research, including the effect of Mars’ level...

A symbol from NASA's post-Apollo era has found a new ride to the moon. The space agency's once-retired logotype known as the "worm" has been added to the rocket and spacecraft that will launch NASA's efforts to return as...

Earlier this year, ESA launched a contest asking the general public to submit ideas on how Earth observation data can help mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, one of the two winning ideas is being offic...

Rovers seem to be proliferating all over Mars.  There are currently 4 on the surface, and another (Perseverance) will be arriving in a few months after a successful launch at the end of July.  Mars itself isn't the onl...

When the full moon shines tonight (Oct. 1), it will mark the Harvest Moon of 2020.

When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it's not going to remain visible for long.

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Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the public to collaborate with professional astronomers as...