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The LEGO Star Wars The Child set is an adorable, if repetitive build.

UFO enthusiasts who rallied in 2019 to invade Area 51 may have been joking about "storming" the base. But law enforcement officials took the idea very, very seriously.

Unusual reaction pathways to hydrocarbon clusters could bring a paradigm shift to the understanding of soot and interstellar chemistry.

We live in a world in which momentous decisions are made by people often without forethought. But some things are predictable, including that if you continually consume a finite resource without recycling, it will eventu...

NASA is beginning the process to procure more commercial crew flights as it looks to extend the International Space Station through the end of the decade, including the opportunity for new entrants to join the program. S...

The full Hunter's Moon will light the way to Uranus in the early morning sky this week, and with some luck you could see a "shooting star" while looking for the celestial pair.

A new study based on Information Theory has produced the first estimate on just how much data is encoded in the cosmos (and it's a lot!) The post There are 6×10^80 Bits of Information in the Observable Universe appeared...

NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency's SpaceX Crew-3 mission with astronauts to the International Space Station.

Crews at the Guyanese Space Center recently "unboxed" the James Webb Space Telescope and are now getting it ready for launch on Dec. 18th! The post I Could Look at James Webb Unboxing Pictures all Day appeared first on U...

The full moon of Wednesday (Oct. 21), known by many as the "Hunter's Moon," provided a celestial treat for skywatchers around the world.

Nanoracks, Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin announced today (Oct. 21) that they plan to get a free-flying private space station called Starlab up and running in low Earth orbit by 2027.

It's tough to be the biggest planet in the solar system, and this fall Jupiter is taking a beating.

Tiny Cyprus aims to join the global space exploration drive by developing a compact, X-Ray instrument capable of dating Martian soil and rock samples relatively accurately to potentially reveal more about the Red Planet'...

Astronaut Nicole Stott's new book "Back to Earth" chronicles her experience on the International Space Station and how lessons there could help people on Earth.

How can going to space change the way we live on Earth? Sure, spaceflight leads to new technologies, but it also offers new philosophies.

These are some of the last good looks we'll get at NASA's huge James Webb Space Telescope before it leaves this world forever.

The U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce presented Glenn A. Delgado, NASA's associate administrator for the agency's Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP), with its CEO Award on Wednesday, Oct. 20.

In the heavens above, it's raining dirt.

As we're fond of saying here at UT, space exploration is hard. Many things can go wrong when launching thousands of kgs of highly engineered equipment that took years to develop into space. Now, something seems to have g...

The surface of Venus is completely inhospitable for life: barren, dry, crushed under an atmosphere about 90 times the pressure of Earth's and roasted by temperatures two times hotter than an oven. But was it always that ...

York Space Systems is once again expanding manufacturing capacity to meet demand for its standard small satellites. SpaceNews

Hot Jupiters--giant gas planets that race around their host stars in extremely tight orbits--have become a little bit less mysterious thanks to a new study combining theoretical modeling with observations by the Hubble S...