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Astrophysicist Andrea Ghez has spent her scientific career peering at the center of the Milky Way, trying to see the invisible.

We thought we understood how stars are formed. It turns out, we don’t. Not completely, anyway. A new study, recently conducted using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, is sending astronomers back to the drawing boar...

From stars made of dark matter to stars literally living inside their partners, these stellar systems are theoretically possible.

Astronomers are now in a better position to interpret observations of supernova remnants thanks to computer simulations of these cataclysmic events by RIKEN astrophysicists.

SpaceX's most-flown rocket, a Falcon 9 booster that has flown a historic nine times has returned home to Florida's Port Canaveral.

NASA is exploring new concepts for its long-awaited return to the Moon, one of which promises to "beam" power wherever its needed on the lunar surface. The post Exploring the Moon’s Shadowed Regions Using Beamed Energy...

The severe storms in Alabama this week are visible even from space.

"The Last Starfighter" may finally get the follow-up sci-fi fans have been waiting decades.

The community reminisces about surprising space facts, our Perseverance giveaway nears it end and more this week!

NASA is looking at options to move up the launch of a small lunar orbiter mission, illustrating the challenges the agency faces as it seeks to make greater use of rideshare launch opportunities. SpaceNews

The near-Earth object was thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068, but now radar observations have ruled that out.

Imagine a galaxy and what comes to mind likely looks like NGC 2336, a shimmering swirl of stars.

New observations of asteroid Apophis - thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068 - rule out any chance of impact for at least a century. After 17 years of observations and orbit analysis, ESA is removing t...

The Gariep Dam, the largest dam in South Africa, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission....

Image: The enormous Ever Given container ship, wedged in Egypt's Suez Canal, is visible in new images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.

A team of scientists at Arizona State University has proposed that the large blobs of material in Earth's mantle (the large low-shear velocity provinces, LLSVPs) may be left over pieces of Theia, a protoplanet theorized ...

The Expedition 64 crew continued researching how microgravity affects biology aboard the International Space Station today....

President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has vowed to launch the nation's first robotic lunar lander on a domestically developed rocket by 2030. SpaceNews

"A great fire appeared in the sky to the North, and lasted three nights," wrote a Portuguese scribe in early March, 1582. Across the globe in feudal Japan, observers in Kyoto noted the same fiery red display in their ski...

A spectacular display of lights that streamed across the night sky over the US Pacific Northwest was probably debris from a SpaceX mission re-entering the atmosphere, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.

A NASA spacecraft built to spot alien worlds has completed its first two years of work, and the tally is in: the mission hauled in 2,241 new planet candidates for scientists to study.

Jessica Watkins is excited for humans to get to work on the lunar surface --