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Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns - but their growth has slowed as the universe aged

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling could upend efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to enforce more stringent orbital debris regulations. The post Supreme Court case could affect orbital debris mitigation rul...

StarFOX is an autonomous satellite swarm that scientists hope to send beyond our planet's orbit someday.

Rocket Factory Augsburg no longer plans a maiden flight this year after losing part of its RFA ONE rocket during a static-fire test, the German company said Aug. 23 as it released more details about the incident. The pos...

As a Human Resource Business Partner at NASA Headquarters, Selina Salgado describes her job as helping with "all things people" for the enterprise. By facilitating technological solutions to human resources (HR) challeng...

Cities around the world are now growing upward more than outward, an analysis of three decades of satellite data has found.

Will two NASA astronauts return to Earth soon in their troubled Boeing capsule? Or wait at the International Space Station for a ride home next year with SpaceX?

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Sangsavang Stevie Phothisane, Taryn Kavanagh, Andro Rios, and Hami Ray. Their commitment to the NASA mission represen...

An explanation of "The Offspring" hybrid monster in "Alien: Romulus."

NASA is funding 11 new studies to better understand how to best support the health and performance of crew members during long-duration spaceflight missions. The awardees will complete the studies on Earth without the ne...

Scientists and engineers are ready to fly an infrared mission called EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) to the edge of space.

When NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos in 2022, the moon was significantly deformed--creating a large crater and reshaping it so dramatically that t...

Researchers have identified specific materials, including certain plastics, rubber, and synthetic fibers, as well as Martian soil (regolith), which would effectively protect astronauts by blocking harmful space radiation...

Astronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium.

Turning red-hot lava from an active volcano into electricity would be dangerous and unreliable. But many countries, including the U.S., have found ways to tap volcanic heat to make electricity.

As part of an asteroid sample exchange, NASA has transferred to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample collected by the agency's OSIRIS-REx mission. The sample was officially han...

In 1971, English mathematical physicist and Nobel-prize winner Roger Penrose proposed how energy could be extracted from a rotating black hole. He argued that this could be done by building a harness around the black hol...

Thanks to NASA's Juno mission to the Jupiter system, we're getting our best looks ever at the gas giant's volcanic moon Io. Even as Juno provides our best views of the moon, it also deepens our existing questions. Only a...

A splatter of stars glows faintly at almost 3 million light-years away in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Known as the Tucana Dwarf for lying in the constellation Tucana, this dwarf galaxy contains a l...

Since the start of International Space Station operations more than two decades ago, crews have lived and worked in microgravity to conduct an array of research that benefits life on Earth and future space exploration mi...

The complex history of the orbits of the TRAPPIST-1 planets has been revealed, showing how they interacted with the disk of gas and dust that gave birth to them.