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The Hubble Space Telescope is healthy but is being pulled down toward Earth by atmospheric drag. NASA is considering options to extend the iconic telescope's work.

This summer, a team of students and researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville successfully conducted three rocket-motor firing tests on a prototype lunar landing pad. The tests showed the prototypes ability ...

Collisions between stars in the early universe were common, and this could explain the growth of supermassive black holes and the existence of strange Little Red Dots seen by the James Webb Space Telescope.

The OG sci-fi browser game is still going strong.

When we make our home on other worlds, who will be in charge? Will it be an emperor? A billionaire? A rebel alliance? Or none of the above? Astrobiologist Jacob Haqq Misra runs through the legal and political options.

Modern space exploration hasn't quite reached "Star Trek" levels of boldly going where no one has gone before. But if, like the denizens of the USS Enterprise, astronauts one day want to land on an uncharted ...

Europe's Hera planetary defense spacecraft is closing in on the binary asteroid system targeted by NASA's DART deflection test, and can now tell the two rocky bodies apart.

Finding a signal from an extraterrestrial civilization takes more than just pointing a telescope in the right direction. We may also need to listen at exactly the right time.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated a cosmic cat's tail formed when two Pluto-sized bodies smashed together.

CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk is pictured during the Oct. 29, 2026, spacewalk. The International Space Station was soaring 267 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean at the time of this photograph. Ku...

For just one day, our dark Universe detective, Euclid, turned its gaze towards the light: the extremely bright inner region of our Milky Way galaxy, known as the galactic bulge.

On Aug. 2, 2027, the moon's shadow will sweep across Tunisia, giving Star Wars fans a rare chance to experience a total solar eclipse at the real-life filming locations of Tatooine.

From Mos Eisley to Mos Espa and the Jundland Wastes, here's where to experience the Aug. 2, 2027 total solar eclipse from Tunisia's Star Wars filming locations.

For more information, contact Joel W. Sills, Langley Research Center, [email protected]. Download PDF here Chip resistors are widely used in NASA projects, yet cases of alumina substrate cracking during environmental...

Students across the country will have the opportunity to connect directly with the International Space Station during a live, interactive in-flight call with NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Mark Rober STEM content creator ...

On Nov. 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth.

An Astrobee, a tiny robot cube, is zipping around the International Space Station helping out the astronauts on board.

The tumbling crisis: why dead satellites threaten orbit Every year, hundreds of satellites reach end-of-life, most are deorbited, but some fail abruptly. Yet, even when properly decommissioned, some dead satellites [] Th...

NASA's Artemis IV moon mission will be a complicated affair - especially if SpaceX's Starship ends up being the lunar lander. The massive spacecraft will need an unknown number of refuel flights in two separate o...

With their mysterious glow and swirling veils of color, auroras enchant even experienced researchers. When a particularly intense solar storm reached Earth on the night of May 10, 2024, and relevant websites predicted au...

If a dangerous asteroid were headed toward Earth, one defense could be a nuclear detonation to blast one side with X-rays and nudge it off course. But new simulations suggest that for a lumpy, irregular asteroid, exactly...

From stellar pulsations to giant dust clouds and a mysterious companion, astronomers are piecing together why Betelguese keeps changing brightness.