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The 'Star Trek' Universe panel at NYCC 2023 spent most of its time on 'Lower Decks,' sparing a few minutes to let fans know that 'Prodigy,' 'Discovery,' and a few other shows are all on track.

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected evidence for quartz nanocrystals in the high-altitude clouds of WASP-17 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet 1,300 light-years from Earth.

Despite satellite malfunctions that are expected to lead to major insurance claims, the space insurance field is taking a cautious approach to servicing technologies that might be able to repair such spacecraft. The post...

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun like the planets with orbits that come within 30 million miles of Earth's orbit. NASA established the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) to ...

AI has spotted and classified its first supernova explosion, a breakthrough that could allow astronomers to spend more time investigating the origins of these stellar explosions and how they proceed.

When stars are born, they do it inside a molecular cloud. Astronomers long assumed that the “crèche” supplied all the nutrients that protostars needed to form. However, it turns out they get help from outside the ne...

Evidence pointing toward the possible existence of "Planet 9" lurking at the edge of the solar system may actually mean we need to revise our recipe for gravity.

The University of California, Berkeley, and the NASA Ames Research Center unveiled plans Oct. 16 for a $2 billion Berkeley Space Center at NASA Research Park. The post University of California and NASA Ames unveil plans ...

The crew from 'For All Mankind' met with Space.com at NYCC 2023 to discuss how the show merges real space history with imaginative sci-fi concepts.

The Ax-3 mission is on track with its training, and the four commercial astronauts are excited for launch in early 2024, they told reporters during a briefing Oct. 16.

The Space Age is leaving fingerprints on one of the most remote parts of the planet--the stratosphere--which has potential implications for climate, the ozone layer and the continued habitability of Earth.

Because of our dependence on technology, a powerful solar storm would be a catastrophe, shutting down the electrical grid and deactivating satellites. Researchers studying tree rings have found what they think is the mos...

Watermeal is Earth's smallest flowering plant found floating in pinhead-sized clumps. It could have a big impact on space exploration, providing food and oxygen for future astronauts.

The public is invited to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, Oct. 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. EDT rain or shine at NASA Goddard's Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. International Observe the Moon Nig...

A new campus, called Berkeley Space Center, aims to offer lab, office, and educational spaces along with student and faculty housing, a conference center, and retail space on 36 acres within the NASA Research Park at the...

Eclipse-chasers and archaeo-astronomers flocked to Chaco Canyon in New Mexico to see annularity from the home of the famous 'Rock of the Sun' petroglyph.

NASA's Psyche spacecraft launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This image captures the beginning of the spacecraft's journey to a metal-rich a...

NASA is calling on innovators to help solve some of the challenges in rapidly testing technology payloads across a wide range of commercial flight vehicles and test environments. As NASA explores the unknown in air and s...

Ah, dark matter particles, what could you be? The answer still eludes us, and astronomers keep trying new ideas to find them. A new paper in Physical Review Letters suggests that if dark matter is made of axions, we migh...

One of the most exciting findings from NASA's Dawn mission is that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, hosts complex organics. The discovery of aliphatic molecules, which co...

Type I X-ray bursts are the most frequent types of thermonuclear stellar explosions in the galaxy. As the key nucleosynthesis process in X-ray bursts, the rapid proton capture process (rp-process) is an important scienti...

Lunar dust can be a hazard for off-world rovers -- so scientists are suggesting we create a road system on the moon.