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Say hello to NGC 6946, otherwise known as the Fireworks Galaxy. This little galaxy is the most prolific producer of supernovae in the known universe, popping off those incredible explosions roughly once a decade. It’s ...

A radio blip, seemingly from Proxima Centauri, where an Earth-size planet world orbits in the habitable zone, is tantalizing—but it's probably not a signal from aliens --

Rocket Lab's first launch of 2021 will take place this weekend, if all goes according to plan.

The Sun, as it turns out, is a pretty big deal. The thermonuclear behemoth at the center of the solar system makes up well over 99% of all the mass in the solar system. Despite being the most well-studied star in the uni...

A new animation shows how SpaceX will "catch" the first stage boosters of their Starship, allowing for faster turnaround and more flights to space. The post SpaceX’s Next Idea: to Catch Super Heavy Boosters With the La...

The Juno mission to Jupiter has been extended to September 2025 - or however long the spacecraft can keep operating around Jupiter. While Juno has so far focused its attention on the giant planet alone, the mission exten...

Delays, many related to COVID, have pushed the first flight of the Dream Chaser space plane to 2022.

How dark is the sky, and what does that tell us about the number of galaxies in the visible universe? Astronomers can estimate the total number of galaxies by counting everything visible in a Hubble deep field and then m...

As the rover has continued to ascend Mount Sharp, it's found distinctive benchlike rock formations.

As many as 53 space missions are projected to lift off in 2021 from Florida's Space Coast, the vice commander of the 45th Space Wing said Jan. 12. SpaceNews

Astronomers may be getting closer to discovering as-yet hidden cosmic secrets, such as the nature of dark matter and the presence of widespread distortions in space-time.

A rocky exoplanet known as TOI-561b was found circling one of the oldest stars in our Milky Way galaxy. The exoplanet is about 50% larger than Earth.

L3Harris Technologies announced Jan. 12 it completed the development of an electronic phased array ground antenna for the U.S. Space Force. SpaceNews

A team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona has observed a luminous quasar 13.03 billion light-years from Earth--the most distant quasar discovered to date. Dating back to 670 million years after the Big Bang,...

Less than a month after issuing a policy directive on space nuclear power, the White House released an executive order Jan. 12 seeking to promote the development of small nuclear reactors for space and defense applicatio...

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The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship made its first-ever autonomous undocking from the International Space Station Tuesday (Jan. 12)

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Climate researchers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessment of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2020 during a media telecon...

In this exclusive clip from "The Expanse" season 5, episode 7, Naomi tries to sever her son's misguided loyalty to the Free Navy and his mad terrorist father.

Shortly after NASA's Kepler mission began operations back in 2009, it identified what was thought to be a planet about the size of Neptune. Called KOI-5Ab, the planet, which was the second new planet candidate to be foun...