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By combining two exoplanet detection methods for the first time ever, the GRAVITY collaboration has confirmed the existence of a second planet around Beta Pictoris The post Those are Exoplanets. You’re Looking at Actua...

The United States must work with long-time Arctic partners to increase vigilance in this increasingly vital region. SpaceNews

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 74 exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system. Astronomers are sifting through some 1,200 additional exoplanet candidates, where potential new worlds ...

SpaceX is developing a new satellite bus for the Space Development Agency based on the Starlink design. SpaceNews

Pad 5 has stood dormant for almost 60 years, and it was a decade ago that Mercury Mission Control was demolished. But all three sites return to their former glory in "The Right Stuff."

Does the life of an astronomer or planetary scientists seem exciting? Sitting in an observatory, sipping warm cocoa, with high-tech tools at your disposal as you work diligently, surfing along on the wavefront of human k...

Lithium is an ancient element that is almost as old as the universe itself. Though one of the building blocks of our present-day universe, lithium's presence in many celestial bodies often conflicts with predictions of c...

The discovery of Martian dune fields largely preserved in the rock record for up to a billion years offers new insights on past climatic conditions on Mars.

The trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, also known as Ultima Thule, which NASA's space probe New Horizons passed on New Year's Day 2019, may have changed its shape significantly in the first 100 million years since its form...

Scientists have made significant progress in understanding the sources of radiation events that could impact human space-flight operations. Relativistic electron precipitation (REP) events are instances when high energy ...

ExoTerra Resources won a NASA Small Business Innovation Research award to develop an upper stage to fit Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne. SpaceNews

The astronauts aboard the International Space Station just got nearly 4 tons of new supplies, including a $23 million titanium space toilet.

This view always gets me *right there.* But this new version really gets me. This is what Apollo 17 astronauts saw in December of 1972 as they came around the farside of the Moon: the blue and white crescent Earth rising...

What if the signature of living things is the lack of a simple signature? --

Hasbro is taking some of its most iconic board games to the final frontier with Battleship Outer Space, Monopoly Space and Trouble: On the Moon Edition.

The 71st International Astronautical Congress (#IAC2020) 'CyberSpace Edition' will take place on 12-14 October, and ESA will be one of the main sponsors of this major digital event, to support this important annual gathe...

An international team of astronomers has investigated a bipolar planetary nebula designated IPHASX J191104.8+060845. Results of the new study provide essential information about the morphology and physical properties of ...

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Want to find life in an exotic corner of the solar system like Saturn's icy moon Enceladus?

Four small spacecraft are being readied for moonbound treks to help quench a thirst for new data about lunar water ice.

A door-sized experiment models massive star explosions --

The new board chair of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) says her initial priorities will be finding a new president for the organization and dealing with a range of regulatory issues affecting the organization...