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Learn more about the spectacular new Cosmic Tornado Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outer space phenomena that shares the spotlight with a distant, aligned galaxy.

What happens when you mix clouds of gas and dust, strong outflows, and energetic shock waves at the core of the Milky Way Galaxy? Space tornadoes. At least, that's how researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array...

A nearly month-long mission is ready to lift off, with preparations being made at the Kennedy Center. To be clear, not NASA's Kennedy Space Center, but the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the Universe. It's also revealed a few surprises. One of these is the appearance of small, highly redshifted objects nickn...

Planning space missions is a very involved process, ensuring orbits are lined up and spacecraft have enough fuel is imperative to the long-term survival of orbital assets. Continuum Space Systems Inc. of Pasadena, Califo...

Technicians do final checks on NASA's Spirit rover in this image from March 28, 2003. The rover - and its twin, Opportunity - studied the history of climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions may once have been ...

NASA and the Department of Defense will host a media event on the recovery operations that will bring the Artemis II astronauts and the agency's Orion spacecraft home at the conclusion of next year's mission around the M...

Under the $95 million contract, Carbon Mapper will process and disseminate data gathered by Planet Tanager hyperspectral-imaging satellites. The post California commits $95 million to purchase of satellite methane data a...

NASA's next moon rocket is coming together at the agency's Kennedy Space Center, as the SLS core stage gets its solid rocket boosters.

The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that created the Parker Solar P...

BioWare's follow-up to the original Mass Effect trilogy is still a ways off, but we already have an extensive list of things we'd love to see happen.

NASA researchers conducted initial validation of a new airspace management system designed to enable crews to use aircraft to fight and monitor wildland fires 24 hours a day, even during low-visibility conditions. From M...

"The respective sizes of the two arcs also create a great symbolic representation of the difference in scale between what we experience and deal with as humans on Earth and the vastness and grandeur of the scale of space...

ESA's Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. This cutting-edge European experiment will test fundamental physics from the outside of ESA's Columbus mod...

Retrofuturistic styling, synthetics with no regard for human life, and people being munched like popcorn -- that's the Alien we know and love alright.

Shrouded in thick clouds, our erstwhile sister planet Venus is rife with mysteries. Among the Solar System's rocky planets, Venus is the one begging for more exploration. While potential habitability always catches peopl...

Paris, France is seen lit up in this photo taken aboard the International Space Staton.

The Moon is a common sight in our night time (and sometimes daytime) skies but it hasn't always been there. The widely accepted theory of lunar formation involves a Mars-sized planet crashing into the Earth, creating a c...

La Estación Espacial Internacional sustenta una amplia gama de actividades científicas, desde la observación de nuestro universo hasta el logro de avances en investigaciones médicas, y es un campo de pruebas activo e...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever existed.

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by Francisco Brasil and Pedro Machado, both researchers from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of...

A stunning blue and white spiral spotted in skies across Europe late Monday was created by frozen fuel tumbling from a SpaceX rocket, according to weather forecasters and scientists.