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Deputy defense secretary nominee Kathleen Hicks had a confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee Feb. 2. SpaceNews

According to new research that looks at MAVEN data, Mars' larger moon (Phobos) could contain a record of how Mars' underwent significant climate change. The post What Could We Learn From a Mission to Phobos? appeared fir...

There’s no doubt that the Moon has water on its surface. Orbiters have spotted deposits of ice persisting in the perpetual shadows of polar craters. And recent research shows that water exists in sunlit parts of the Mo...

The nation's newest military branch just got a vote of confidence from the Biden administration.

"Babylon 5,' the galaxy's greatest science fiction television series, receives a long overdue upgrade to HD and is available on Amazon, iTunes and HBO Max.

Media accreditation now is open for prelaunch and launch activities for NASA's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station, the second uncrewed flight test of the company's CST-100 Sta...

Martian landslides might help explain mystery lines seen on the surface of the Red Planet, a new study finds.

A team of researchers led by SETI Institute Senior Research Scientist Janice Bishop, a member of the SETI Institute NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) team, has come up with a theory about what is causing landslides on th...

Gen. John Raymond said he expects greater collaboration between the U.S. Space Force, NASA and other agencies, and that cooperation can save U.S. taxpayers money. SpaceNews

Water simulations that small gravitational waves near a black hole can significantly change the black hole's behavior. The post Black Holes Simulated in a Tank of Water Reveals “Backreaction” for the First Time appea...

NASA announced Wednesday it was creating a new position of senior climate advisor as part of the administration of President Joe Biden's climate science objectives for the agency.

New studies knock down a controversial report observing phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere --

New podcast episode ESA Explores Time and Space: the International Space Station era

A research team with participation by Berkeley Lab physicists has used artificial intelligence to identify more than 1,200 possible gravitational lenses--objects that can be powerful markers for the distribution of dark ...

Telescopes have captured meteoroids hitting the Moon and several spacecraft imaged Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smacking into Jupiter in 1994. But impacts as they happen on another rocky world have never been observed.

In an effort to ensure effective fulfillment of the Biden Administration's climate science objectives for NASA, the agency has established a new position of senior climate advisor and selected Gavin Schmidt, director of ...

Using Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers from the University of Vienna, Austria, and elsewhere have investigated the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in a massiv...

Mighty planets can be whittled down, leaving behind only their rocky cores, becoming nothing bigger than superearths. While astronomers had long suspected that this could happen, a new study reveals that it can occur in ...

An international research team including members from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover has shown that a rapidly rotating neutron star is at the core of a cel...

Even as the Perseverance rover approaches Mars, technology on board is paying off on Earth.

Massive galaxies with extra-large extended "puffy" disks produced stars for longer than their more compact cousins, new modeling reveals.

NASA has put its plan to choose which companies will continue to develop lunar landers for the Artemis program on hold.