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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will discuss the agency's goals for the benefit of humanity during the annual State of NASA address on Monday, March 11. The event will coincide with the release of the Biden-Harris Adminis...

A nearly 3-ton leftover tossed overboard from the International Space Station is nearing its plunge toward Earth.

Different spaceborne perspectives of a 2021 solar storm in 2021 reveal new insights on dangers in space posed by solar particles.

NASA will preview the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station by hosting media tours Thursday, March 21, and with news conferences Friday, March 22, at the agency's Johnson Space...

China is making progress towards a 2030 launch for its Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission and has narrowed down potential landing areas. The post China targets 2030 for Mars sample return mission, potential landing are...

The final trailer for Netflix's upcoming alien invasion series "3 Body Problem" has just landed.

The next total solar eclipse is on April 8, and you can save 33% on a two-pack of Soluna's solar glasses that will arrive in time for the big event.

Dark energy has humans stumped. The force is sometimes even labeled "the worst prediction in the history of physics." Can AI do any better?

On Jan. 16, 2020, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this image of two types of sand dunes on Mars: barchan and linear dunes. The small dots are called barchan dunes, and from their shape we can tell that the...

The upcoming Copernicus Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band (ROSE-L) will provide continuous day-and-night all-weather monitoring of Earth's land, oceans and ice, and offer frequent observations of Earth's surf...

When it launches in October, the agency's Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a richly layered dispatch that includes more than 2.6 million names submitted by the public.

Exploring the moon has become increasingly more of a focal point lately, especially with a series of landers recently launched with various degrees of success. One of the difficulties those landers and any future human m...

The Pentagon's UFO office says there is no evidence for claims that any sightings represent extraterrestrial technology or that the government possesses crashed alien spacecraft.

'The Martian,' Kerbal Space Program, and NASA's Space Launch System rocket are among awesome space-themed Lego Ideas concepts up for submission right now.

All you'll need to see comet 12P/Pons-Brooks this month, besides fair weather and a little luck, are good binoculars or a telescope and sky map to help guide you.

NASA's Artemis program is scheduled to return astronauts to the moon and establish a permanent orbiting laboratory by the end of the decade.

As more people seek to go where no man has gone before, researchers are exploring how forensic science can be adapted to extraterrestrial environments.

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson will launch toward the ISS no earlier than March 21. She talks to Space.com about what she and other astronauts will do on the mission, her third spaceflight.

Recent findings support the theory that Easter Island locals may have developed writing before the arrival of Europeans.

When it launches in October, the agency's Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a richly layered dispatch that includes more than 2.6 million names submitted by the public. Following in NASA's storied tradition of sending...

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have now completed one of the largest surveys ever to hunt for planet-forming discs. They were able to find dozens of dusty regions around young stars, directly imaging...

NASA held two workshops in mid-February to share the latest progress on the agency's Moon to Mars architecture and solicit feedback from industry, academia, and the international community. Representatives from 18 coun...