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Northrop Grumman test-fired a new solid rocket motor that marks the beginning of an annual test campaign to demonstrate advanced technologies that could be incorporated into space and defense programs. The post Northrop ...

Human beings first disturbed moon dust on Sept. 13, 1959, when the USSR's unmanned spacecraft Luna 2 alighted on the lunar surface. In the following decades, more than a hundred other spacecraft have touched the moon--bo...

Annual Science Conference to Feature NASA Leadership, Research NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will discuss the agency's Artemis program during her keynote remarks in mid-December at the upcoming American Geophysica...

Scientists aren't sure whether humanity really detected moons outside the solar system.

In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaitre made a startling discovery that forever changed our perception of the Universe. Upon observing galaxies beyond the Milky Way and measuring their spectra, they determined th...

NASA satellite and airborne tools aid an international team studying biodiversity on land and in the water around South Africa. An international team of researchers spent October and November 2023 in the field studying o...

A new theory suggests the universe's most mysterious and dominant form of matter could exert a "dark force."

NASA is licensing a radical new form of propulsion that uses electromagnets to control the flow of plasma over aircraft and spacecraft flying at hypersonic speeds.

NASA is announcing final winners of the 2023 NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge, which focused this year on lunar exploration and climate science. Entrepreneurs from across the United States came together at the Defense TechCo...

A fresh understanding of how black holes eat offers a new way to estimate their masses.

The best known use of GPS satellites is to help people know their location whether driving a car, navigating a ship or plane, or trekking across remote territory. Another important, but lesser-known, use is to distribute...

About 8-11 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy merged with the Milky Way, adding 50 billion solar masses of stars, gas, and dark matter. The object is known as the "Gaia Sausage" because of the extended stream of stars fou...

There’s an alien red giant star orbiting in the center of our galaxy. It’s called S0-6 and has chemical fingerprints from its birthplace far outside the Milky Way. This ancient star is spiraling slowly in toward the ...

On Friday, Dec. 8, Halley's Comet reaches its farthest point from the sun and begins its journey back through the solar system.

This striking Hubble Space Telescope image shows the densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210, which is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC lies about 157,000 light-years from Earth and is a so...

This striking Hubble Space Telescope image shows the densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210, which is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC lies about 157,000 light-years from Earth and is a so...

Weird effects of space junk collisions could help researchers detect dangerous, hard-to-see orbital clutter.

Eight U.S. university teams are partnering with NASA to advance technologies for small spacecraft, increasing their capability to support the agency's science and exploration missions within the Earth, cislunar, and deep...

Astronomers found what looks like a glowing cloud of dust from a massive planetary pile-up--and NASA volunteers helped make the discovery!

We've seen the movies and read the books about what it would be like to have a lunar habitat -- but to turn our Sci-Fi fantasy into a reality, scientists must develop a game plan.

On Dec. 9, astronomers and physicists will commemorate two years of landmark X-ray science by NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission. IXPE is the joint NASA-Italian Space Agency mission to study polariz...

A new body in the Solar System starts a multi-trillion-dollar gold rush, while the shockwaves from a certain someone's departure continue to resonate on Mars.