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Gaze up at the Moon on any night and you will see a barren world displaying all manner of shades of grey. Aside from the obvious craters and lunar maria, the surface of the Moon is covered in the fine, dusty lunar regoli...

The NASA Science Activation Program's Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) project aims to measurably enhance student Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) engagement via middle school, high school, ...

Peering through the window of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this image on Oct. 7, 2024 of the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft as vivid green and pink aurora swirled thr...

Learn about the how the Denmark Strait cataract helps contribute to currents in the Atlantic Ocean.

Using the X-shooter instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), German astronomers have detected three new pre-white dwarfs, which turned out to be strongly hydrogen-deficient. The finding was reported in a research ...

2024 has been another challenging year for Earth's climate, marked by record temperatures, extreme weather events, and urgent warnings from scientists about the accelerating pace of global warming.

New details about the small pieces of the moon gifted by the United States to Ireland in 1970 have now been unearthed. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Apollo 11 lunar samples.

In June 2024, the NASA Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) Standards Team hosted an independent assessment working group to review the status and progress of research and clinical activities intended t...

Issues with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield on Artemis 1 have delayed the next mission, Artemis 2. So what happened?

An interview with celebrated author Bruce McCandless III for his new NASA book, "Star Bound"

This Weekend: Catch the Quadrantids at their annual peak, Earth at perihelion and the Moon blotting out Saturn. Ready for another amazing year of skywatching? The very first weekend of 2025 offers up a flurry of winterti...

Never give up, never surrender... As the classic sci-fi comedy clocks up a quarter-century, we look back at a movie that wholeheartedly embraces its source material

Cosmologists have long wondered whether dark energy and the accelerating expansion of the universe is an illusion. Now the evidence backing this idea is mounting.

2024 was a year abundant with sci-fi greatness. Here's our round-up of the best out-of-this-world content to hit the small screen.

A rundown of some of the exciting sky events -- including meteor showers and the first total lunar eclipse for the U.S. since 2022 -- that will take place this year.

Sometimes, it’s hard to remember that Earth is constantly being bombarded by literally tons of space debris daily. The larger bits form what we know as shooting stars, and most burn up in the atmosphere. Still, through...

2024 was a big year for the study of the universe's most troubling and mysterious "ingredient," dark energy. Here's what scientists found.

For now, the future of life on Earth is in human hands. But after the anthropocentric era, the situation starts to get dicey. The sun's luminosity is increasing over time, about 1% every 110 million years, so the Earth's...

From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025

SpaceX could make serious strides with its Starship vehicle in 2025, perhaps launching 25 test flights of the fully reusable megarocket.

Prof. Zhao Yinghe from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, have conducted a study examining the correlation between the [C II] 158 micron emission and the CO(1-0) line. ...

A new environmental study is intended to support the continued increase of SpaceX launches from a California spaceport, but that growth faces obstacles. The post Study to examine environmental impacts of increased SpaceX...