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On March 30, 2023, NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, and Robert Hines took part in STEM demonstrations with local students in Washington. Lindgren, Hines, and Watkins spent 170 days in space as part of Exp...

You know how some constellations take a little bit of imagination to see? Yes, Leo looks a bit like a lion and Orino a bit like a hunter but then we drift into the realms of powerful levels of imagination to be able to s...

A colorful, festive image shows different types of light containing the remains of not one, but at least two, exploded stars. This supernova remnant is known as 30 Doradus B (30 Dor B for short) and is part of a larger r...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been getting closer and closer to Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io with each recent orbit. Juno is in its 57th orbit of Jupiter, and on December 30th, Juno came to within 1500 km (930 miles) of I...

Goddard astrophysicist Dr. Joshua Schlieder supports NASA's Roman Space Telescope and Swift Observatory with creativity, community, and curiosity.

After a record 2023, SpaceX is not slowing down its launch plans for 2024 with the first launch of the year from Florida slated for Wednesday evening.

The first SpaceX launch of 2024, which took place Tuesday night, included something that none of the company's prior launches did.

A colorful, festive image shows different types of light containing the remains of not one, but at least two exploded stars. This supernova remnant is known as 30 Doradus B (30 Dor B for short) and is part of a larger re...

Just days after it was taken off exhibit and as its external tank is scheduled for its brief return to flight, NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour is heading under wraps.

The mystery of what dwells within dead stars could be solved at last, thanks to supercomputer simulations that show neutron stars are comprised of "cold quark matter."

When a star with several times the mass of the Sun dies in a supernova explosion, it ends up as a neutron star, compressing its protons and electrons into neutrons. But neutron stars have layers, and the most massive one...

If the James Webb Space Telescope detects depleted carbon dioxide in a planet's atmosphere, that could indicate water.

In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, famed physicist Enrico Fermi asked the question that launched a hundred (or more) proposed resolutions. "Where is Everybody?...

The private Peregrine moon lander is scheduled to launch Jan. 8 on the debut flight of ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket, and you can follow along with the mission during a variety of prelaunch events.

On November 8th, NASA’s Curiosity Rover paused its incessant science work and just watched the day unfold on Mars. The rover used its black-and-white Hazard-Avoidance Cameras (Hazcams) to watch an entire 12-hour day on...

Lee esta historia en inglés aquí. La misión Quesst de la NASA ha ajustado la fecha prevista para el primer vuelo de su avión supersónico silencioso X-59 a 2024.  El X-59, un avión experimental único en su clase, ...

At long last, the final journey of the last space shuttle ever built, Endeavour, and its giant orange external tank are expected to begin this month--the capstone to a historic journey to an ambitious museum exhibit in L...

Two commercial spacecraft are scheduled to launch to the moon early in 2024 under a NASA initiative called the Commercial Lunar Payload Service CLPS. This program is intended to kickstart a commercial transportation serv...

SpaceX is poised to launch a Swedish broadband satellite tonight (Jan. 3) on the company's second mission of 2024, and you can watch the action live.

The current debate over whether to weight space critical infrastructure on its impact on terrestrial activity overlooks most deep space activity. The post More Than Just LEO: A Framework for SPD-8 and Space Critical Infr...

The mini-halos of dark matter scattered throughout the cosmos could function as highly sensitive probes of primordial magnetic fields. This is what emerges from a theoretical study conducted by SISSA and published in Phy...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter flew farther than it ever has before on Dec. 20, covering 2,315 feet (705 meters) of Red Planet ground.