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NASA's Wallops Flight Facility commemorated the start of construction of its new Wallops Island causeway bridge during a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Monday, April 14, 2025, on the island.   The ceremony was hel...

Image: Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 (MIRI image)

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter--stars, galaxies and gas--in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In fact, more than half...

Dark oxygen was first discovered in 2015, but what is it? Learn how a deep-sea discovery could rewrite our understanding of how life on Earth evolved.

NASA and Roscosmos have extended a seat barter agreement for flights to the International Space Station into 2027 that will feature longer Soyuz missions to the station. The post NASA extends seat barter agreement with R...

Although a bracket fungus proved to be the least palatable, it is not poisonous. This conclusion could make scientists rethink the relationship between taste and toxicity.

The tracks show that two types of ankylosauruses co-existed at a time and place where they were once thought to be extinct.

NGC 1514 is a planetary nebula about 1500 light years away. William Herschel discovered it in 1790, and its discovery made him rethink the nature of nebulae. It's been imaged many times by modern telescopes, and each tim...

A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of Hawai i at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy suggests the universe may rotate--just extremely sl...

This new image, released on April 4, 2025, showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have released images of NGC 346 previously, this i...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with an asteroid; this time, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson.

Tournear will return to the Space Development Agency on April 17 after a three-month administrative leave The post Derek Tournear to return as Space Development Agency director after investigation appeared first on Space...

Amanda Nguyen has become the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space; her spaceflight is a testament to her achievements as an accomplished scientist, and is also part of a larger story of healing as a survivor of sexual ...

We've long known that black holes can produce powerful jets of ionized gas. These jets stream away from the black hole at nearly the speed of light. Jets produced by supermassive black holes are so powerful they are seen...

NASA and SpaceX are targeting 4:15 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 21, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the 32nd SpaceX commercial resuppl...

Katy Perry just flew to suborbital space on a historic all-female flight with Blue Origin. The trip, though brief, changed her in significant ways the pop star said.

NASA's Office of Small Business Programs will host the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for the first time at its monthly webinar for small businesses at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 16. The webinar, currently ope...

For the first time in history, we can explore the universe through a rich blend of senses--seeing, touching, and hearing astronomical data--in ways that deepen our understanding of space. While three-dimensional (3D) mod...

This new image, released on April 4, 2025, showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have released images of NGC 346 previously, this i...

Star Wars Celebration is returning to Japan later this month, so here's a list of things we expect (and hope) to see addressed at the event.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is 6 days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with an asteroid; this time, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. This upcoming event represent...

This fantastic Pococo Galaxy Star Projector is user-friendly, delivers bright, high-resolution projections and rivals more expensive rivals for performance.