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Many white dwarfs host planets that may lie within the habitable zones of those stars and may even support life. Now, scientists have outlined how to hunt for that possible life.

Rising interest rates are making it more difficult for space startups to raise money, some warn, forcing them to seek alternative sources of funding. The post Space companies face difficult investment environment appeare...

Warm-colored clouds surround the young star at the center of a recently published image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

More satellite operators are considering providing services directly to standard mobile phones following early product launches, big-name announcements, and progress startups are making for their dedicated constellations...

Scientists at NASA JPL and Colorado University have created a new instrument for finding signs of life, called the Ocean Worlds Life Surveyor (OWLS). The post NASA has Built a Collection of Instruments That Will Search f...

NASA has awarded contracts to KSAT Inc. and SpaceLink as part the space agency's campaign to begin investigating commercial sources for future space communications services. The post NASA taps KSAT and SpaceLink for comm...

An otherwise relatively modest New York Comic Con line up was given a badly needed Cortical Stimulator and a monster 'Star Trek' panel

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A dramatic asteroid crash that slammed a NASA probe into a space rock in a first-of-its-kind test to defend our planet was more effective than scientists dreamed possible.

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In the search for life beyond Earth, subsurface bodies of water in our outer solar system are some of the most important targets. That's why NASA is sending the Europa Clipper spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa: There i...

China's Shenzhou 14 astronauts are ready to deliver their first lecture from the Tiangong space station on Wednesday morning (Oct. 12).

The lunar occultation of Uranus on Wednesday (Oct. 12) won't be visible from all areas of the planet, but the moon will give skywatchers a good guide to finding the distant planet.

We don’t have to worry too much about our Sun. It can burn our skin, and it can emit potent doses of charged material--called Solar storms--that can damage electrical systems. But the Sun is alone up there, making thin...

A Japanese Epsilon rocket is scheduled to launch a variety of technology-demonstrating payloads to orbit tonight (Oct. 11), and you can watch the action live.

Astronomers have revealed the most stunning and detailed images of Europa and Ganymede, two of Jupiter's largest moons, ever obtained from the surface of Earth.

NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth.

There are plenty of interesting things about Uranus. Its season lasts as long as its day, it’s the second least-dense planet, and it has a collection of 27 moons. But maybe the most puzzling fact about Uranus is that i...

El análisis de los datos obtenidos en las últimas dos semanas por el equipo de investigación de la Prueba de redireccionamiento del asteroide doble (DART, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA muestra que el impacto c...

Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the a...

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A new map of 56,000 galaxies has helped researchers estimate the size and expansion rate of the universe with more precision than ever.