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The planet Uranus is a weird place. Not only does it roll around the Sun on its side once every 84.3 Earth years, it also sports a spindly set of rings corralled in some places by strange little moons. Two of those rings...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor of our Milky Way galaxy, stuns in this ambassador's picture.

"With the James Webb Space Telescope now revealing more supermassive black holes in the early universe, this mechanism may help bridge the gap between theory and observation."

The Milky Way has a sizable retinue of dwarf galaxies, and they may hold important clues about conditions in the early Universe. However, they're difficult to observe because many of them are so faint. The tiniest on...

"We're on an express elevator to hell, goin' down!"

NASAs X-59 is helping the nation celebrate the 250th anniversary of its independence with an update to its livery - its official paint job and insignia. The one-of-a-kind research aircraft is the centerpiece of NASAs Que...

HBO Max just added the Alien movie special editions to celebrate Alien Day; here are all the major differences between the theatrical & director's cuts

The ion tail appeared as Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS was about 45 million miles from Earth (72 million kilometers) during its closest approach.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 25 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California on Sunday (April 26). It was the company's 50th liftoff of the year already.

We've already played a chunk of Owlcat Games' take on The Expanse, and it looks like the hard sci-fi Mass Effect successor we were hoping for.

Overview Energy, a startup developing space-based solar power systems, announced an agreement to provide energy for data centers operated by Meta. The post Overview Energy to provide space-based solar power for Meta data...

These images, released on April 14, 2026, show two open star clusters, Trumpler 3 (left) and NGC 2353 (right). They represent a recent study from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory that shows how young Sun-like stars are di...

NASAs Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have captured two 360-degree landscapes that highlight how the missions are revealing details of the Red Planets formation, watery past, and potential for life. Located 2,345 miles...

From birth to death, stars generally slow by 100 to 1,000 times their initial rotation rates; in other words, they "spin down." The sun's total angular momentum has declined as material is gradually blown off...

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back - the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an important part of NASAs...

As NASAs Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. At the same time, volunteers for the NASA-funded Impact Flash project s...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch 29 of Amazon's internet satellites tonight (April 27), and you can watch it live.

A team of scientists at the University of Virginia is using a telescope in Arizona to study cosmic structure and the result is the largest 3D map of the Universe ever created. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DE...

When Mauna Loa erupted in 2022, the largest lava flow headed on a path headed directly toward Daniel K. Inouye State Highway 200, also known as Saddle Road, a critical route that carries many residents from their homes o...

Astronomers can use telescopes to find specific molecules in the atmospheres of neighboring planets, in nebulae-clouds of interstellar dust and gas-hundreds or thousands of light-years away, or in galaxies beyond the far...

On April 10, the Orion capsule carrying Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen splashed down in the Pacific, completing the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years. The images they sent ba...

Astrobotic completed a successful series of hot-fire tests of its rotating detonation rocket engine prototype, marking a key milestone for the experimental propulsion technology.