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What we're looking for is evidence of past life, either direct chemical or organic signs in the composition and the chemistry of rocks, or textural evidence in the rock record.

According to a recent statement, NASA has contracted SpaceX to launch the core elements of the Gateway to the Moon with the Falcon Heavy by 2024. The post NASA has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Fa...

Scientists are finally figuring out how much dark matter -- the almost imperceptible material said to tug on everything, yet emit no light -- really weighs.

SpaceX postponed the launch of its next batch of Starlink internet satellites late Sunday (Feb. 14) due to bad weather.

By analyzing the occurrences of exposed dusty ice on Mars using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, ASU planetary scientists Aditya Khuller and Philip Christensen have found the lowest latitude detection of dus...

Globular clusters can be home to lots of stellar-mass black holes, rather than a single intermediate mass black hole. The post A Cluster of Black Holes Found Inside a Globular Cluster of Stars appeared first on Universe ...

UConn astrophysicist Chiara Mingarelli is part of a team of researchers who recently published data on a hint of a signal that sent ripples of excitement through the physics community. These monumental findings are the c...

When the universe was about 350 million years old it was dark: there were no stars or galaxies, only neutral gas--mainly hydrogen--the residue of the Big Bang. That foggy period began to clear as atoms clumped together t...

A low-mass companion to a distant star known as APMPM J2036-4936 has been recently detected as part of the citizen science project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9. The finding of the star, which received designation CWISE J203...

This image features the southeast wall of a small crater located a few hundred kilometers to the north of the giant Hellas impact basin on Mars. The complete crater itself is about 12 km in diameter; this image shows a 5...

Three new spacecraft are due to arrive at Mars this month, ending their seven-month journey through space.

NASA's next Mars rover is about to touch down! See Space.com's complete coverage of the Feb. 18 landing of the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance.

Both missions intend to search the planet for signs of life.

It forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago.

An unmanned Russian cargo ship launched successfully Monday with a load of supplies for the International Space Station.

A new Russian Progress cargo ship launched into orbit Sunday night (Feb. 14) to deliver cargo to the seven crew members on the International Space Station.

(Harvard University) In a study published in Scientific Reports, Avi Loeb puts forth a new theory that could explain the origin and journey of the comet that killed the Chicxulub impactor and others like it.

(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) It forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impactor, as it's known, left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that spa...

Intelsat SA announced a reorganization plan Feb. 12 to reduce the Luxembourg-based communications satellite fleet operator's debt from nearly $15 billion to $7 billion. SpaceNews

This view of the Earth's horizon looks across the Red Sea and the Nile River in Africa as the International Space Station orbited 261 miles above Saudi Arabia....

This view of Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere from NASA's Juno spacecraft includes several of the planet's southern jet streams....

Astronomers found something they weren't expecting at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397: a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there instead of one massive black hole....