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Finding alien life may have just got easier! If life does exist on other worlds in our Solar System then it's likely to be tiny, primative bacteria. It's not so easy to send microscopes to other worlds but chemistry may ...

Learn about a new study that shows jumping exercises, are activities that may help astronauts maintain endurance in space.

SpaceX fired up its next Starship and booster for an engine test before the rocket's upcoming launch to space.

A group of enthusiastic high school students recently visited NASA to learn about facilities and capabilities that enable the agency's researchers to explore, innovate, and inspire for the benefit of humanity. Engineerin...

White dwarfs are the remnants of once brilliant main sequence stars like our Sun. They’re extremely dense and no longer perform any fusion. The light they radiate is from remnant heat only. Astronomers have doubted tha...

Astronomers have captured a new image of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 1 in 48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

NASA's Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI) is pleased to announce the official release of the highly anticipated 2024 State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology report. This significant accomplishment wa...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander reached lunar orbit on Thursday (Feb. 13) and snapped some photos to commemorate the milestone.

Introduction The 10th Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Radiometer [NISTAR] Science Team Meeting (STM) was held O...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

This February 14, 2025, a solar storm will fuel the Aurora Borealis, creating an opportunity for a romantic moment.

On Tuesday, January 28th, Fairbanks BEST Homeschool joined the Geophysical Institute for an afternoon of rocket exploration, hands-on activities, and stargazing inside a planetarium. This event was free and open to the p...

We all know that asteroids are out there, that some of them come dangerously close to Earth, and that they’ve struck Earth before with catastrophic consequences. The recent discovery of asteroid 2024 YR4 reminds us of ...

HELSINKI -- China's human spaceflight agency has announced a tender process for a lunar satellite to support the country's first crewed moon landing and subsequent missions. The China Manned Space […] The post China in...

As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for service spacecraft to reach them safely. Researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in T...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the universe.

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the universe. Ryugu, a 9...

Sen aims to use the story-telling power of video to inspire, empowering everyone to witness planetary change and humanity's exploration of space.

As the most intense star-forming region in the Local Group, 30 Doradus is of particular importance to astronomers.

An exotic new approach could shrink kilometer-scale machines into table-top devices.

Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months to gradually line up for capture into lunar orbit.

Here's our list of the best cinematic sci-fi romance stories to prove that love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.