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Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features part of Victoria, a state in southeast Australia.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and NGC 5994 (its smaller ...

Travelling to Mars has its own challenges. The distance alone makes the journey something of a mission in itself. Arrive though, and the handwork has only just begun. Living and surviving on Mars will be perhaps humans b...

Assistant Secretary John Plumb: "Now space is constantly a topic at the White House and at the Pentagon." The post Evolving role of space policy in national security: From “hobby shop” to center stage appeared first ...

What is the Intersection of Ramadan and astronomy? Dive into the timing of Ramadan and discover the ties between Islam's most devout month and astronomy.

It's already rare for a single location to experience a total solar eclipse, but on April 8, Carbondale, Illinois will see its second one within a decade.

The region near the Milky Way’s centre is dominated by the supermassive black hole that resides there. Sagittarius A*’s overwhelming gravity creates a chaotic region where tightly packed, high-speed stars crash into ...

The CHEOPS mission has seen tantalizing hints of the rainbow-like glory effect over WASP-76b, an extreme world where iron rains heavily on one side of the planet.

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Associate Administrator Jim Free are scheduled to speak at the Space Foundation's 39th Space Symposium from Tuesday, April 9 through Thursday, April 11 in Colorado Springs, Colora...

A six-person team of researchers from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to study changes in the Sun's radiation as it reaches Earth before, during, and after the total s...

Fourteen undergraduate and graduate teams from across the country were selected as finalists to compete in one of NASA's longest running student challenges -- the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts - Academic Linka...

While visiting NASA Headquarters in Washington on March 19, 2024, astronauts Stephen Bowen, left, Frank Rubio, Warren Hoburg, and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, right, posed for a photo wearing sol...

Stars near the center of the Milky Way disguise themselves as youthful stars.

Humans have been digging underground for millennia – on the Earth. It’s where we extract some of our most valuable resources that have moved society forward. For example, there wouldn’t have been a Bronze Age witho...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory images the firework-like remnants of the great supernova of 1181.

NASA's LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter), which has been circling and studying the Moon for 15 years, captured several images of Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Danuri lunar orbiter last month. The two spacecraft, ...

Europe's next rocket, Ariane 6, passed all its qualification tests in preparation for its first flight, and the full-scale test model has been removed from the launch pad to make way for the real rocket that will ascend ...

Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking one of the great mysteries of the universe after calculating that neutron stars might hold a key to helping us understand elusive dark matter.

Subtle differences in teeth, jaws, and inner ear bones point to evolutionary adaptations for mammaliaforms.

You can’t see it. . .you can’t touch it. . .you can’t live without it. Use these downloadable activity sheets to enhance your lesson plan at school or at home. Scroll down for the downloadable files. Have fun! Spec...

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft is set to depart the ISS late tonight (April 5) with three people on board, and you can watch the action live.

Ancient astronomers were able to accurately predict eclipses, much like the one on April 8th.