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Video: 00:12:27 The Arctic is experiencing disproportionately higher temperature increases compared to the rest of the planet, triggering a series of cascading effects. This rapid warming has profound implications for gl...

NASA's Voyager 1 deep space probe started glitching last year, and scientists aren't sure they can fix it.

Two glitches in the rotation of a highly magnetic neutron star or 'magnetar' could help reveal the interior of neutron stars and get to the bottom of how these compact dead stars blast out fast radio bursts.

NASA has selected an ultraviolet observatory for development but will delay its launch by two years because of budget challenges. The post NASA selects ultraviolet astronomy mission but delays its launch two years appear...

Jupiter is our solar system's undisputed king of the planets. Jupiter is bright and easy to spot from our vantage point on Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops. Jupiter even possesses moons...

After several months of meticulous, careful work, NASA has the final total for their haul of asteroidal material from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu. The highly successful mission successfully collected 121.6 grams, or ...

Organic material on Saturn moon Titan's surface may have difficulty getting to the underground ocean. That's where it'd need to go for Titan to potentially support life.

Chang'e-6 is expected to launch in May 2024 and touch down on the moon's far side to collect samples of lunar material to be returned to Earth for study.

At 1:05 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander, named Odysseus, lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As part of NASA's Commercial Lunar...

ESA's Euclid observatory has begun to survey billions of galaxies on a quest to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy from its vantage point 1.5 million km from Earth.

The future of space exploration includes some rather ambitious plans to send missions farther from Earth than ever before. Beyond the current proposals for building infrastructure in cis-lunar space and sending regular c...

NASA is now an associate member of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, giving the agency new opportunities to collaborate with federal agencies and other partners to better understand wildland fires and leverage te...

NASA recently concluded the final mission of its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment, or Saffire, putting a blazing end to an eight-year series of investigations that provided insights into fire's behavior in space.

Netflix's upcoming sci-fi movie "Spaceman" follows Adam Sandler losing his grip on reality as he ventures deep into the cosmos.

For a long time, our understanding of the Universe’s first galaxies leaned heavily on theory. The light from that age only reached us after travelling for billions of years, and on the way, it was obscured and stretche...

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander is doing well on its own in deep space after its early-morning launch atop a SpaceX rocket on Thursday (Feb. 15).

Feb. 15, 2024 RELEASE: J24-003 NASA Selects Texas A&M as First Approved Exploration Park Facility NASA and the Texas A&M University System announced an agreement Thursday, Feb. 15, to lease underutilized land in Explorat...

Astronomers have used two X-ray telescopes to study a neutron star and have discovered a link between it and mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs). In October 2022, NASA's NICER and NuSTAR missions watched a type of neutro...

According to the Gaia hypothesis, which was proposed by the scientists Lovelock and Margulis in the 1970s, our planet should have been getting progressively warmer for millions of years, while our oceans should have been...

China's Chang'e 8 moon mission, which is targeted to launch no earlier than 2028, will carry a small ecosystem and other payloads to test using lunar resources.

A team co-led by Southwest Research Institute found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake, located in the Kuiper Belt. Methane detected on their surfaces has the...

Get a sneak peek at Marvel Comics' 'Star Wars: Ahsoka' comic book miniseries, which is adapted from the TV show and will be released in July.