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With unusually powerful magnetic fields, these stars seem to get a boost when their cores start to drift apart. Thus, they may not be the ideal hosts for habitable exoplanets.

NASA will highlight groundbreaking discoveries, benefits for humanity, and how the agency and its commercial and international partners are maximizing research and development aboard the International Space Station at th...

The exploding comet, known as 12P/Pons-Brooks, is currently approaching its closest point to Earth during its 71-year orbit through the solar system.

A new study connects impacts during Venus' early history to its smooth and "youthful" appearance today. The post Did Powerful Asteroid Impacts Make Venus So Different From Earth? appeared first on Universe Today.

Euclid's stunning seminal images confirm that the observatory's instruments are working as expected.

The first rocket launch from the surface of another planet will be accomplished using two solid rocket motors.

The European Space Agency's weather monitoring spacecraft Aeolus came to a fiery end on Friday, July 28, when it entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up.

President Biden finally settled the drawn-out fight over the location of U.S. Space Command headquarters: It's staying in Colorado Springs, and not moving to Huntsville, Alabama. The post U.S. Space Command headquarters ...

Humanity has been on an asteroid-finding spree as of late. Those close to Earth, known as Near Earth Objects (NEOs), have been particularly interesting for two reasons. One is they offer potentially lucrative economic op...

It’s every space mission’s nightmare: losing contact with the spacecraft. In the best case, you recover it right away. Worst case, you never hear from your hardware again. On July 21, controllers lost contact with Vo...

Earth is rapidly warming and scientists are developing a variety of approaches to reduce the effects of climate change. István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawai i Institute for Astronomy, has proposed a ...

How is this bizarre live action/animation crossover possible you ask? By the power of a portal, of course.

Planes, trains, automobiles... and spacecraft. While all four of these transportation innovations rely on fuel for power, another key component is thermal management. Without controlling the distribution and flow of heat...

In capitalist societies, resources are primarily directed at solving problems, and one of the biggest hurdles facing space development is its ability to directly solve the problems of the majority of humanity back on Ear...

Argentina became the 28th country to sign the Artemis Accords on July 27, as NASA administrator Bill Nelson was in South America on a goodwill tour.

Watch Lance Armstrong and Andy Richter take out the trash in this exclusive clip for the new episode of Fox's sci-fi reality TV series, "Stars on Mars."

A Cygnus cargo spacecraft is set to launch to the International Space Station on the final flight of a version of an Antares rocket with Russian and Ukrainian components. The post Northrop Grumman prepares for final flig...

KBR, a DoD and NASA contractor, won a $24.9 million contract to provide insights on the behavior of objects in nontraditional orbits. The post KBR wins Air Force Research Lab contract to study non-traditional orbits appe...

Euclid's two instruments have captured their first test images. The mesmerizing results indicate that the space telescope will achieve the scientific goals that it has been designed for--and possibly much more.

An asteroid discovery algorithm--designed to uncover near-Earth asteroids for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's upcoming 10-year survey of the night sky--has identified its first "potentially hazardous" asteroid, a term fo...

At one time, astronomers believed that the planets formed in their current orbits, which remained stable over time. But more recent observations, theory, and calculations have shown that planetary systems are subject to ...

We have discovered more than 5,400 planets in the universe. These worlds range from hot jovians that closely orbit their star to warm ocean worlds to cold gas giants. While we know they are there, we don't know much abou...