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A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASAs ESCAPADE (E...

DayZ and Kerbal Space Program's creators have joined forces with an ex-SpaceX engineer to create the ultimate spaceflight simulator.

The JWST surprised when it detected very early galaxies that were extremely luminous. This suggested that they were more massive than researchers thought they could be. Not enough time had passed for them to grow so larg...

SES is adding another servicer to what is already the broadest and busiest satellite life-extension roster in the commercial geostationary orbit market, with five missions now scheduled between 2026 and 2029. The post SE...

For North America, the best time to look will be before dawn on Tuesday, Nov. 18.

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Sentinel-6B, an international mission delivering critical sea level and ocean data to protect coastal infrastructure, improve weather forecasting, an...

The solar system is moving through space over three times as fast as estimated, calling into question our best model of the universe and its evolution.

This image released on June 30, 2025, combines data from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope and NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory to visualize dark matter. Researchers used Webbs observations to carefully measure the mass of...

NASAs Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has earned 2025 R&D 100 Awards for developing a system that delivers high-speed internet for space and co-inventing technology for a new class of soft magnetic nanocrystalline mat...

Scientists have discovered a 900 metre wide impact crater in southern China, the largest modern meteorite scar on Earth. The Jinlin crater triples the size of the previous record holder and suggests that recent extraterr...

A new study of supernovae suggests that the standard model of cosmology isn't quite right. If the data holds up, what other cosmological models might work better?

Lawmakers are demanding answers from NASA about unexplained building closures and workforce losses at the Goddard Space Flight Center during the government shutdown.

Video: 00:00:22 The Sun is always mesmerisingto watch, butSolar Orbitercaptureda special treaton camera: adarkprominencesticking out from the side of theSun.The dark-looking material is dense plasma (charged gas)trappedb...

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New images from the Mars Express orbiter reveal evidence of a past ice age at Mars's mid-latitudes and shine light on the planet's dynamic climate history.

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A new discovery adds to the growing menagerie of exoplanets. These days, word of a new exoplanet discovery raises nary an eyebrow. To date, the current number of known exoplanets beyond our solar system stands at confirm...

A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University has for the first time identified crystalline hematite (-Fe2O3) and maghemite (-Fe2O3) formed by...

A powerful geomagnetic storm created a series of brilliant auroras recently for observers across North America.

Stars of all ages are on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the sparkling spiral galaxy called NGC 6000, located 102 million light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. NGC 6000 has a glowing ye...

Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe, with each containing hundreds or even thousands of galaxies. When two of these giants collide, they send powerful shock waves through one ...

Getting time on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the dream of many astronomers. The most powerful space telescope currently in our arsenal, the JWST has been in operation for almost four years at this point, afte...