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The "Star Trek: Picard" Season 3 premiere is here and offers a trip down memory lane for anyone wishing for another season of "The Next Generation."

Oftentimes in astronomy, it takes a village of telescopes and people to make an amazing find. In the case of the quasar NRAO 530, it took a planet full of radio dishes ganged together to peer into its heart. Then, it too...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed Abell 2744 also known as "Pandora's Cluster" spotting the merger of three galactic clusters to birth a "mega cluster."

The acoustically generated force will help astronomers better understand the sun's photosphere and the causes of space weather.

In this era of exoplanet discovery, astronomers have found over 5,000 confirmed exoplanets, with thousands more awaiting confirmation and many billions more waiting to be discovered. These exoplanets exist in a bewilderi...

Mars is infamous for its intense dust storms, some of which kick up enough dust to be seen by telescopes on Earth.

How do you measure an object’s weight from a distance? You could guess at its distance and therefore derive its size. Maybe you could further speculate about its density, which would eventually lead to an estimated wei...

Virgin Galactic's carrier plane VMS Eve conducted a test flight on Wednesday (Feb. 15), taking to the skies for the first time since October 2021.

The three mysterious objects shot down recently by U.S. fighter jets were likely research or recreation objects lofted by private companies or academic institutions, President Joe Biden said.

NASA and Boeing will host a mission overview media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST Friday, Feb. 17, to provide a status update on the first astronaut flight test of the company's CST-100 Starliner to the International Spac...

Black holes may be the origin of dark energy, according to a study by a team of researchers led by the University of Hawaii.

The U.S. Space Force announced Feb. 16 it accepted delivery of the 10th and final GPS 3 satellite made by Lockheed Martin under a 2008 contract. The post Lockheed Martin completes delivery of 10th GPS 3 satellite appeare...

On the heels of the Feb. 4, 2023, shooting down of a Chinese balloon suspected of spying on the U.S., American fighter jets have shot down three additional objects in or near U.S. airspace.

NASA-developed technology that can remotely detect the tiniest motions of the body caused by basic processes necessary for life will be used by disaster relief teams in earthquake-stricken Turkey.

Although the development of the SLS was driven by launch needs for human exploration of the Moon and Mars, it provides a much greater level of capability for the broader spacefaring community. The post Opinion | A new le...

Melba Mouton worked during the era of "Hidden Figures" at NASA. The newly named Mons Mouton overlooks an area that will also be targeted by an ice-hunting rover in 2024 or so.

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawai i have discovered that aurorae at visible wavelengths appear on all 4 major moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are getting their first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths. The data has enabled an initial ...

It is a popular notion that aside from large celestial objects like planets, stars and asteroids, outer space is empty. In fact, galaxies are filled with something called the interstellar medium (ISM)--that is, the gas a...

New research shows how a simple molecule called ortho-benzene helps form larger, more complex organic molecules at the core of frigid gas clouds in deep space.

The Goldilocks zone or habitable zone is the region around a star where an orbiting planet could host liquid water and, therefore, possibly support life.

Planetary defense refers to the effort to monitor and protect Earth from asteroids, comets and other objects in space.