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The secret behind a record-breaking nuclear fusion experiment that spit out 10 quadrillion watts of power in a split second has been revealed.

Finding more and more exoplanets to study has, as we might have expected, widened our understanding of what a planet is.

The giant rocket aims to achieve orbit later in 2022.

A quiet supersonic plane designed and built by NASA to usher in a new era of superfast air travel made a pitstop in Texas to perform crucial structural testing ahead of a debut flight later this year.

Just one in five Americans lives under a sky dark enough to make out all four stars of the Little Dipper's bowl with the naked eye. Are you one of them?

The space tourism company hopes to fly twice the number of people it did in 2021.

That's an out-of-this-world deal for Starship Samurai that saves you nearly $30.

The Defense Department announced Feb. 22 that the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom have signed a joint vision document that calls for greater cooperation to prevent c...

A new study recommends casting a wider net in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by looking for signs of "planetary intelligence" The post Should we be Looking for Intelligence on a Planetary Scale? appe...

The third-largest crater on the dwarf planet Ceres was geologically active at least once many millions of years after its formation. In a recent study published today in the journal Nature Communications, researchers fro...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 24, to provide an update on progress toward the launch of the agency's uncrewed Artemis I mission.

Newspapers around the world printed the discovery on their front pages: Astronomers had found that a red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1 was home to a close-knit family of seven Earth-size planets. NASA announced the system...

The first look at the new design for the PSVR 2 has been released, and we're excited about it.

A new NASA sounding rocket mission will soon take to the Alaskan skies. The LAMP mission, short for Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations, will fly above an often-overlooked kind of northern lights to test a theory ...

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A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Young stars surround a supermassive black hole in a stunning new image captured by an instrument designed to search for dark energy.

Chang'e-5 T1 'completely burned up' in Earth's atmosphere shortly after launch, officials said.

Despite being close to Earth and having nearly the same size, Venus is another world. Underneath its thick mantle of acid sulfuric clouds, at the surface 460 degrees Celsius are the rule. This temperature is kept by the ...

In its early days, the Milky Way was like a giant smoothie, as if galaxies consisting of billions of stars, and an enormous amount of gas had been thrown together into a gigantic blender.

Since astronomers discovered the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun, we have found many worlds that are very unlike the ones in our own Solar System. A large number of these "exoplanets" are large, gaseous p...

Turkish astronomers have inspected GLEAM-XJ162759.5-523504.3--a recently discovered pulsar with a relatively long spin period. Results of the study, published February 14 on the arXiv pre-print repository, deliver import...