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As NASA's Parker Solar Probe completes its latest swing around the sun, it's doing so in full view of dozens of other spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.

Asteroid samples collected during the Hayabusa mission have helped scientists better model potential impacts of near-Earth objects.

Dark leafy greens and vibrant hued root vegetables, such as carrots and sweet potatoes, are rich in nutrients essential for health....

As the Pentagon prepares for the possibility that adversaries will target national and commercial satellites, the government's ability to adopt commercial industry's best technologies has become a major topic of discussi...

Astronomers have watched the young binary star system SVS 13 for decades. Astronomers don’t know much about how planets form around proto-binary stars like SVS 13, and the earliest stages are especially mysterious. A n...

Geopolitical tensions won't keep an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts from returning to Earth together as planned this month, NASA says.

Curtin researchers have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite after pinpointing its exact location on the vast Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia, with a new technique that uses a drone to collect footage of the landsca...

Starship, self-landing rockets and a Tesla-driving mannequin are part of the package.

When the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft discovered abundant molecular oxygen bursting from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) in 2015, it puzzled scientists. They had never seen a comet emit oxygen, let al...

A computer simulation of dark matter points to axions being more massive than expected. The post If Axions are Dark Matter, we've got new Hints About Where to Look for Them appeared first on Universe Today.

The "Saturday Night Live" star and five other people are scheduled to fly to suborbital space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle on March 23.

Using ESA's Gaia space observatory, astronomers have explored the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy. They discovered that this galaxy has an extended stellar halo, spanning more than 17,000 light years. The finding was deta...

One of Earth's two mysterious mantle blobs is much higher than the other, raising questions about its impact on Earth's surface.

The private spaceflight startup Astra will launch a commercial mission for Spaceflight, Inc. Tuesday (March 15) and you can watch it live online.

Astronomers have imaged a beam of matter and antimatter that is 40 trillion miles long with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The record-breaking beam is powered by a pulsar, a rapidly rotating collapsed star with a stro...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine could have serious consequences for those organizations pursuing scientific endeavors.

NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at noon EDT Wednesday, March 16, to provide an update on the James Webb Space Telescope's mirror alignment.

U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth in the midst of deepening tensions between the countr...

Pete Davidson is heading to space.

An energetic outburst from an infant star streaks across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This stellar tantrum--produced by an extremely young star in the earliest phase of formation--consists of an i...

Using ground-based and space-based observations, a team of researchers has been monitoring a difficult-to-see comet carefully. It's called Comet 323P/SOHO, and it was discovered over 20 years ago in 1999. But it's diffic...

Our solar system is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began to condense on itself gravitationally ~ 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud contracted, it began to spin ...