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The resources tucked away in asteroids promise to provide the building blocks of humanitys expansion into space. However, accessing those resources can prove tricky. Theres the engineering challenge of landing a spacecra...

Astronomers from Brazil and the UK have detected what could be the most massive black hole ever found. It's about 36 billion solar masses, which is a stunning 10,000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*, the monstr...

Astronomers spot a rare stellar bridge in Abell 3667, revealing an aggressive galaxy merger and new clues about dark matter.

NASA astronaut Jim Lovell - a veteran of four spaceflights, including Apollo 8 and the near-disastrous Apollo 13 -passed away on Aug. 7, 2025 at the age of 97.

NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-pri...

Paramounts hit sci-fi horror franchise returns in 2027 with more ultrasonic alien invaders.

A new NASA directive to accelerate development of a nuclear reactor for the moon has is aggressive but achievable, industry officials believe. The post Industry supports NASA plans to accelerate work on lunar nuclear rea...

The techniques used to target the asteroids could also be employed in tracking hazardous asteroids and interstellar objects.

The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old. NASA sends its condolences...

Satellite images revealed the scope of destruction in the south of France where an area larger than the country's capital Paris has been turned into ashes by a massive wildfire.

NASA invites media to view the agencys IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft and two other missions - the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations ...

A newfound supermassive black hole from the dawn of the universe challenges how early cosmic giants formed.

Its that time of year once again. August sees warm nights, with late summer campers out awaiting that Old Faithful of annual meteor showers: the August Perseids. While 2025 also sees the shower peaking right around Full ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a breathtaking panorama of the Red Planet surface depicted in false-color under a blue sky.

If Earthlings are ever going to colonize Mars, they won't be able to do so on an empty stomach-and Temidayo Oniosun thinks a helping of Egusi soup, a Nigerian staple, might just hit the spot.

NASAsHubble Space Telescopeand NASAsChandra X-ray Observatoryteamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by X-ray emission (in purple) in this image released on July 24, 2025. ...

Ahead of Alien: Earth's two-episode premiere, we talked to series creator Noah Hawley and executive producer David W. Zucker.

Week in images: 04-08 August 2025 Discover our week through the lens

While moonlight might steal the spotlight, it won't steal the Perseids' show.

Like the old Copernican revolution, new technologies including AI tools, quantum modeling and powerful observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope are probing deeper into the universe to again better define our ...

Ontario, N.Y. - Starris: Optimax Space Systems (Starris), a leader in precision optics and monolithic optics systems, and TRL11, a leader in AI-enabled full-motion video capture and distribution for space, [] The post St...

Its a disappointing star projector, but the Discovery Space Projector has some nice scientific images of moons and planets.