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NASA's pioneering OSIRIS-REx probe has bagged up its precious asteroid sample for return to Earth.

While ghouls and goblins may provide the ghastly delights many of us associate with this time of year, NASA has just released a series of spooky space-themed posters that are more unearthly than any monsters or scary sto...

As families tuck into their couches to watch Charlie Brown's quest for the great pumpkin this Halloween, they may be surprised to hear that NASA has already discovered a "greater pumpkin."

Galactic dark matter is in a state of maximum entropy, which means it must interact with itself. The post Something other than just gravity is contributing to the shape of dark matter halos appeared first on Universe Tod...

Everyone loves black holes. Everyone also loves presents. These gifts are the perfect addition to any space lover's collection. From our partners at MyScienceShop.

Fact-based dramas are bringing more realistic science to the small screen, at a time when we definitely need it.

A pair of University of Michigan studies reveals how some massive stars--stars eight or more times the mass of our sun--become isolated in the universe: most often, their star clusters kick them out.

China has outlined an architecture for getting astronauts to the moon and back as part of plans for long-term lunar exploration. SpaceNews

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Skywatchers, ghouls and (especially) werewolves take note: The moon will be full this Halloween night across the United States

MITRE says the U.S. commercial geospatial intelligence industry is at risk of being outpaced by foreign competitors. SpaceNews

NXT Communications Corp. (NXTCOMM) announced plans Oct. 28 to begin demonstrating the performance of its electronically steered antenna through leased capacity on a Eutelsat Communications satellite. SpaceNews

A highly experienced retired NASA astronaut will talk about the value of the International Space Station as an engineering feat and a cultural experience, in two online talks Oct. 30 and Nov. 2.

Space.com's Chelsea Gohd is joining a crew of researchers for a two-week analog mission to Mars at the HI-SEAS. Follow it live here!

NASA has collected the eeriest, most hair-raising sounds in the cosmos and compiled them in a playlist just in time for Halloween.

The behaviour of galaxies in the early Universe attracts a lot of attention from researchers. In fact, everything about the early Universe is under intense scientific scrutiny for obvious reasons. But unlike the Universe...

By studying impact marks on the surface of asteroid Bennu--the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission--a team of researchers led by the University of Arizona has uncovered the asteroid's past and revealed that despite formi...

NASA has awarded a contract to MathWorks Inc. of Natick, Massachusetts, to provide new software licenses, maintenance, and product training for mathematical computing software to be used by all NASA centers and associate...

A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope gives new insight into an important question: how habitable are planets that orbit the most common type of stars in the Galaxy? The ...

A new study reveals that the Chicxulub impact crater and its hydrothermal system hosted a subterranean ecosystem that could provide a glimpse of Earth's primordial life.

The commercial space industry hopes to continue recent progress in regulatory reform even if there is a new president or a change in party control in Congress after the election. SpaceNews

Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins and ghouls, but nothing in the universe is scarier than a black hole.