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The supersharp radio "vision" of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) has revealed previously unseen details in a jet of material ejected at three-quarters the speed of light from the core of...

A Soyuz rocket successfully launched a French reconnaissance satellite Dec. 29 in what is likely the final launch of an active 2020 in spaceflight. SpaceNews

The White House released a national strategy for planetary protection Dec. 30, outlining new assessments to prevent terrestrial contamination of other worlds and vice versa. SpaceNews

This year saw a new age of sample-retrieval missions, protests against a telescope, an incredible visit from a dazzling comet and the ''great conjunction'' of Saturn and Jupiter.

You can thank Julius Caesar, Pope Gregory XIII and 2,000 years of calendar controversy for our New Year's date and calendar system. Some cultures only recently adopted it.

When it comes to the moon, everyone wants the same things.

From the best places to find them to what they might breathe, here are the newest clues we discovered about alien life.

You wouldn't know it by looking at it, but the moon is a time capsule.

Astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of a newly detected white dwarf star known as GD 424. Results of the observational campaign provide more insights into the atmosphere of this object. The study was pr...

A view of radishes growing in the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) ground unit inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 14, 2020....

Citizen science has seen significant growth during the pandemic. In 2020, these were the top projects on SciStarter.org.

The ethical questions raised by emerging neuro-technologies