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152 billion tonnes of fresh water - equivalent to 20 x Loch Ness or 61 million Olympic sized swimming pools, entered the seas around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia when the megaberg A68A melted over 3 months i...

The spacecraft will fly around the moon in 2022 to get ready for future astronaut missions.

It's been a busy four years for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the scientists who seek planets in its data.

Engineers have identified the likely reason one of two solar arrays on NASA's Lucy asteroid mission failed to latch in place after launch, but NASA is still studying whether to fix the problem. The post Cause of Lucy sol...

The upper stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched the DSCOVR satellite in 2015 will arrive violently on the lunar surface just five weeks from now.

NASA has selected 12 companies to provide launch services for the agency's Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) missions, providing new opportunities for science and technology payloads and fosteri...

Audrey Schaffer, director of space policy at the National Security Council, said an emerging concern is whether there should be a set of rules for satellites that dock with other satellites. The post White House official...

A chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash into the Moon in March, experts say.

A retired microscope and samples from studies on colloids and cellular signaling are among the cargo returning from the International Space Stationaboard the 24th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission. The Dragon c...

Research done at Cornell University has uncovered from gravitation wave data the first potential signs of spin-orbit resonances in binary black holes, a step toward understanding the mechanisms of supernovas and other bi...

Young stars go through a lot as they’re being born. They sometimes emit jets of ionized gas called MHOs--Molecular Hydrogen emission-line Objects. New images of two of these MHOs, also called stellar jets, show how com...

Celestis, a company that provides space memorial services, will launch a Star Trek tribute mission on the first flight of United Launch Alliance's new rocket Vulcan Centaur, ULA announced Jan. 26. The post Star Trek trib...

Caltech researchers used the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to determine that surface water left salt minerals behind as recently as 2 billion years ago.

Could we send a spacecraft to the giant, cigar-shaped interstellar interloper 'Oumuamua? Should we?

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has shaken loose the last two pebbles clogging its sampling system.

For the second time in its mission so far, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through the tail of a comet. Predicted in advance by astronomers at University College London, UK, the spacecraft collected a wea...

A new astronomical visualization from NASA's Universe of Learning showcases the multiwavelength emissions (from infrared light through X-rays) and three-dimensional structures surrounding Eta Carinae, one of the most mas...

Move over Avengers and make room in the limelight for these forgotten Marvel movies.

A team mapping radio waves in the universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it's unlike anything astronomers have seen before.

Using the Sobaeksan Optical Astronomy Observatory (SOAO), Korean astronomers have performed photometric observations of a W UMa-type eclipsing binary known as V608 Cassiopeiae. Results of the observational campaign, publ...

Astra performed a "static fire" test with its Rocket 3.3 vehicle Saturday (Jan. 22), briefly igniting the launcher's first-stage engines while keeping it anchored to the pad.

NASA's latest and snazziest mission, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched on Christmas Day, deployed its 21-foot-wide mirror a mere two weeks ago and reached its orbital destination earlier this week. With a f...