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Robert Pattinson plays an expendable laborer in Bong Joon Ho's satirical sci-fi comedy, which hits HBO Max today.

Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the edge of our solar system.

Learn why researchers identified some of North America's most famous fossils as Traskasaura sandrae.

It was a race against the rising sun as astrophotographer Josh Dury captured a fleeting cosmic moment before dawn's light washed the scene away.

Twenty years ago, the US Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They've made progress finding these asteroids that orbit the Sun and come to within 1.3 astronomical units of Earth...

NASA has awarded a bridge contract to ASRC Federal System Solutions LLC of Beltsville, Maryland, to provide financial support and project planning and control services to the agency. The Program Analysis and Control Brid...

NASA astronaut Anne McClain shared photos she captured of lightning as seen from her place on board the International Space Station.

Impulse Space has signed an agreement with satellite operator SES to transport that company's satellites to medium and geostationary orbits. The post Impulse Space to launch SES satellites appeared first on SpaceNews.

Just after sunrise, the waning gibbous moon sets just behind a waving United States flag on March 19, 2025, in this image from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The waning gibbous moon phase comes after th...

Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft picked up signs of a high magnetic field in lunar surface rocks. The moon itself has no inherent m...

A new simulation suggests a massive asteroid impact may have briefly supercharged the moon's magnetic field, leaving behind magnetized rocks that still carry its signature.

A large team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in China has discovered a binary star system, where one of the stars is a millisecond pulsar and the other is made mostly of helium. In...

You can save a massive $230 on the DJI Mini 4 Pro Fly More combo in this Memorial Day drone deal and get it for its lowest-ever price.

There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from?

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Capturing the high-stakes work behind NASA's Airborne Science Program takes more than just technical skill - it takes vision. At NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, videographer Jacob Shaw bri...

The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy is located 43 million light-years away in the constellation Crater (The Cup). From Hubble's vantage...

Whenever scientists present new research showing potential biosignatures on an exoplanet, follow-up articles spread like ripples on a pond. Mainstream media usually runs with it, which shows how the issue captures people...

This engaging new post-apocalyptic show hails from Argentine director Bruno Stagnaro.

These out-of-this-world Amazon Memorial Day deals are perfect for those looking for a space-themed discount over the long weekend.

A new study published in Nature Astronomy, led by Dr. Jie Yu, from the Australian National University, reveals that stars in close binary systems--pairs of stars orbiting each other at close range--can exhibit unexpected...

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for the cold dark matter of the universe are primordial black holes--black holes created from extreme...