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Bright turquoise plumes ripple through the Milky Way's companion galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, like waves in the ocean.

Satellites and space debris objects in low Earth orbit could get lost for weeks if a major solar storm hit Earth, increasing the risk of collisions and rendering the space around Earth unsafe.

Individual contributors have become less and less prominent in scientific fields as the discipline itself has matured. Some individuals still hold the public spotlight for their discoveries, such as Peter Higgs with the ...

Scientists searching for signs of extraterrestrial technology should keep an eye out for city lights on exoplanets, a new study suggests.

Wallaroo Labs won a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research study contract from the U.S. Space Force to model the performance of machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms during space missions. The post ...

A jacket worn by Buzz Aldrin set a new record for the most-ever paid at auction for a flown-in-space artifact, while Aldrin's pen credited with saving the Apollo 11 mission failed to sell.

The United States on Tuesday voiced regret over Russia's announcement that it would exit the International Space Station after 2024 and said it was taken by surprise.

A bidder has paid nearly $2.8 million at auction for a jacket worn by astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the historic first mission to the moon's surface in 1969.

Titan Books expands the "Firefly" 'Verse with a seventh tie-in novel, "What Makes Us Mighty."

Ex-astronaut Dan Tani discusses his role in designing the new co-op board game, "Lunar Outpost."

China has expanded their research capabilities on the Tiangong 3 space station by adding a science module, named Wentian. The new laboratory launched from the Wenchang launch center on July 23 and the module docked to th...

On July 20, 53 years after Neil Armstrong took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind, NASA announced target launch dates for the Artemis I mission, the agency's long-awaited first step to returning astron...

Learn about the today's moon phase and the rest of the moon phases for 2022, and when you can see them.

In a recent study, aerospace engineer Prof. Alex Ellery proposes a biologically-inspired method that could keep self-replicating robots from running amok! The post Before we Develop Self-Replicating Machines to Explore t...

Black holes with varying light signatures but that were thought to be the same objects being viewed from different angles are actually in different stages of the life cycle, according to a study led by Dartmouth research...

As NASA prepares for the first integrated flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft to the Moon this summer as part of Artemis, the agency is moving toward a services contract model for...

Radioactive decay is the strange and almost mystical ability for one element to naturally and spontaneously transmute into another one.

NASA-funded scientists have discovered shaded locations within pits on the Moon that always hover around a comfortable 63 F (about 17 C) using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft and computer m...

NASA officials said July 26 they have received no official notification from Roscosmos of plans to end cooperation on the International Space Station despite comments from that agency's new leader. The post NASA: no noti...

According to Russia's news agency Tass, leaders at Roscosmos have decided to withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024. The report said that by that time, "all obligations to partners will be fulfill...

Cracks and fractures in Bennu's surface seem to have been caused by heat from the sun, stunning images from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have shown.

Does the sun rotate? At the center of our solar system, it's tempting to think of the sun as unmoving. Yet, it undergoes a complex form of rotation.