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Astronomers have observed the Tarantula Nebula at the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, finding that powerful magnetic fields ensure its survival and regulate star birth.

High-energy 'relativistic' electrons--so-called "killer" electrons--are a major source of radiation damage to satellites and so understanding their patterns of activity is crucial. Bursts of charged particles and magneti...

The commercial spaceflight revolution didn't begin with Elon Musk. Or with Jeff Bezos, or Richard Branson, or any of the other billionaires who've spent a fortune on the final frontier over the past 20 years. Would you b...

On its face, the Apollo 11 quarantine protocol looked sensible. But the new research suggests that NASA's "planetary protection" efforts were largely for show.

Bethesda Game Studios has revealed new "Starfield" gameplay footage and details on limited editions of the game and special themed hardware.

Virgin Galactic plans to launch its first commercial spaceflight on June 27, with the second following shortly thereafter in early August.

The BlackHoleCam project, part of the Event Horizon Telescope consortium, will use the powerful EHT array to search for pulsars near Sagittarius A* The post Pulsars Could Help Map the Black Hole at the Center of the Milk...

In the annals of “strange new worlds”, the ultra-hot Jupiter planet WASP-76b ranks right up there as a very unusual place. There’s no surface, but it does have a massive, hot atmosphere. Temperatures average a ragi...

NASA will partner with seven U.S. companies to meet future business and government needs, ultimately benefitting human spaceflight and the U.S. commercial low Earth orbit economy.

The moon and Mercury will come close to the red supergiant star Aldebaran, the brightest star of Taurus the bull, in the early morning sky on Friday (June 16).

The Geminid meteor shower, which happens every December, comes from a space rock with a comet-like tail. New research suggests a violent origin story.

NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg and Stephen Bowen deployed the sixth and last (for now) upgraded solar array outside of the International Space Station while Bowen tied an American spacewalk record.

Astronomers are once again ringing alarm bells about rising light pollution destroying pristine night skies. This time, though, their worries extend beyond their core discipline.

,We all used to think there were nine planets. But in 2006, the solar system was left with only eight planets, when Pluto was no longer classified as such. But is it still possible there is a planet out there beyond Nept...

It’s widely accepted that Earth’s plate tectonics are a key factor in life’s emergence. Plate tectonics allows heat to move from the mantle to the crust and plays a critical role in cycling nutrients. They’re als...

The final liftoff of Europe's Ariane 5 rocket, targeted for Friday (June 15), has been delayed due to "a risk to the redundancy of a critical function" on the vehicle.

Governments should consider requiring satellites over a certain altitude to be maneuverable to improve space sustainability, according to an executive for Amazon's proposed Project Kuiper constellation. The post Project ...

The Geminids meteoroids light up the sky as they race past Earth each winter, producing one of the most intense meteor showers in our night sky.

The discovery of a rare type of white dwarf star system provides new understanding into stellar evolution.

In a new report now published in npj Microgravity, Zachary Estlack and a research team in mechanical engineering and space sciences at the University of Utah and the University of California, Berkeley, developed a microf...

There is a clear statistical correlation between global seismic activity and changes in the intensity of cosmic radiation recorded at the surface of our planet, potentially helping to predict earthquakes. Surprisingly, i...

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield plans to release a new space sustainability plan formulated with King Charles III. The plan borrows its name from the famous Magna Carta.