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Is the hanger real? Researchers debate if hanger is a physical or emotional state.

The spiral pattern shown by the galaxy in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is striking because of its delicate, feathery nature....

NASA said Tuesday it has lost contact with a $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, but agency engineers are hopeful they can fix the problem.

North Kordofan State, Sudan (15.8°N 31.6°E), 24 Jun 2022...

This observation is part of a large and ongoing series to aid in the classification and volume estimates of dunes in the United States Geological Survey global dune database....

The 8.2-foot (2.5-meter) primary mirror on NASA's Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths mission, or ASTHROS, is one of the largest to ever fly on a hi...

It's gripping, it's gritty and this episode pulls no punches in the show's most daring installment yet.

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over Lake Mar Chiquita - an endorheic salt lake in the northeast province of Córdoba, Argentina....

It was on Independence Day 25 years ago that a little rover named after a Civil War abolitionist parachuted and tumbled to the Red Planet's surface on airbags.

The United States Government has declared that it will no longer be performing tests of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons. In a public statement during a visit to the Vandenberg Space Force Base, Vice President Kamala Harris...

It's nice to have a feel-good story every once in a while, so here's one to hold off the existential dread: the Earth isn't likely to get flung off into deep space for at least 100,000 years. In fact, all of the solar sy...

The success of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter has encouraged engineers to consider and reconsider all options for remote aerial observations of the Red Planet. Additional methods for birds-eye views of Mars would not only...

The 55-pound (25 kilograms) CAPSTONE moon probe ceased communicating with its handlers shortly after it deployed successfully from Rocket Lab's Photon spacecraft bus yesterday (July 4).

NASA is reporting that communications issue has arisen between the spacecraft and the Deep Space Network....

Researchers at the University of Cologne and Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) have discovered the fastest known star, which travels around a black hole in record time. The star, S4716, orbits Sagittarius A*, t...

"For All Mankind" is heading to Mars by way of San Diego Comic Con. Between a pair of panels and a set of mission patches, the Apple TV+ alternate space history series will be well represented.

In a bold vision to secure Europe's role in space exploration and so benefit from the many scientific, economic, and societal rewards, ESA is publicly releasing its new exploration roadmap after its presentation to its C...

Ph.D. student Lv Chenglong from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and his collaborators have revealed the evolutionary state of δ Scuti KIC 1573174 by constructing stel...

Preserved specimens are a veritable treasure trove of information, and a new approach allows scientists to access DNA.

The eVscope 2 telescope is a telescope and astrocamera-in-one that is easy to use, automatically navigates to night sky objects and is easily controlled via an app.

Time to catch up on some long overdue sci-fi, so here's our handy guide to what's on.

NASA has recently announced US$600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming robots (known as independent micro-swimmers) to explore oceans beneath the icy shells...