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NASA's coming megarocket launch isn't just going to the moon, it's going far beyond that -- some of its secondary payloads far, far beyond.

Ball Aerospace and Seagate Technology Holdings are working together to develop and test high-capacity commercial data processing and storage devices for spaceflight applications. The post Ball and Seagate test data stora...

Nicole Aunapu Mann, the mission commander of the Crew-5 mission, will be the first Indigenous woman to go to space! The post NASA Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann will be the First Indigenous Woman in Space! appeared first o...

Scientists are relieved to rule out a mysterious animal with no anus as a member of our own family tree.

Imagine you go to a theme park with your family and you ask a park employee to take a group photo. A celebrity walks by in the background and waves at the camera, stealing the focus of the photo. Surprisingly, this conce...

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule will leave the International Space Station Thursday morning (Aug. 18), and you can watch the departure live.

A Russian spacewalker had to rush back inside the International Space Station on Wednesday when the battery voltage in his spacesuit suddenly dropped.

NASA's new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks.

The harder you hit something--a ball, a walnut, a geode--the more likely it is to break open. Or, if it does not break open, it's more likely to at least lose a little bit of its structural integrity, the way new basebal...

A spacewalk outside the International Space Station was cut short Wednesday (Aug. 17) after Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev experienced an electrical problem with his Orlan spacesuit.

New research suggests that the expansion of the universe could be measured using colliding black holes as 'spectral sirens.'

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The soil and water of Mars are normally too harsh for crops, but research led by a then-high schooler finds that alfalfa plants and photosynthetic bacteria might help make conditions fit for farming.

The rapid development of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) mega constellations has significantly contributed to several aspects of human scientific progress, such as communication, navigation, and remote sensing. However, unrestrain...

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are evolved neutron stars with short spin periods that have gone through a long period of mass transfer in a low-mass X-ray binary phase. Globular clusters (GCs)--conglomerations of tens of tho...

Meet R136a1, the most mass star known. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, it’s a hulking behemoth weighing somewhere between 150 and 200 times the mass of the Sun. Understanding the upper limit of stars helps astro...

After three years of design and construction, a monthlong boat ride across the Pacific Ocean, and a lift from a 30-ton crane, the customized test chamber for NASA's upcoming SPHEREx mission has finally reached its destin...

Black hole X-ray binaries (BHXB) comprise a stellar-mass black hole accreting gas from a companion star and emitting transient X-ray emission and compact radio jets.

A small metal rod joined NASA's new moon-bound rocket for an overnight move to the launch pad, serving as a symbolic marker for the milestone event at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The golden glowing ring of matter seen in the first-ever image of a black hole has been remastered, revealing the action of gravity around such cosmic titans.

How do we make medicine last the extreme conditions of space exploration?

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets in recent years. Most have them have been discovered by the transit method, where an optical telescope measures the brightness of a star over time. If the star dips ver...