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It would appear we now have 10,091 candidate exoplanets to go through and confirm.

NASA and SpaceX are targetingamid-Maylaunchto deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. Loadedwithabout 6,500pounds of supplies, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraftwill lift ...

The Pentagon released a new tranche of UFO files on Friday (May 8). Among the documents are nearly 30 videos, which feature a range of intriguing objects.

Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or neutron star slams into the universe's hottest class of star.

A spacecraft designed to raise the decaying orbit of a NASA astrophysics satellite has passed environmental tests ahead of a launch as soon as June.

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Description This colorized image of Mars was captured by NASAs Psyche mission on May 3, 2026, about 3 million miles (4.8 million kilometers) from the planet. The spacecraft is approaching the planet for a gravity assist ...

What sci-fi gets right (and mostly wrong) about all the ways that space wants to kill you.

Listen to this audio excerpt from Anton Kiriwas, senior technical integration manager for NASAs Exploration Ground Systems Program: When Anton Kiriwas first spotted an image of the Moon and Mars hanging over a job fair b...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to deepen collaboration in planetary defense, alongside a dedicated agreement for collaboration on...

See the glowing arch of our Milky Way's core at its peak in the spring sky

Black holes evaporate through Hawking radiation, meaning their days are numbered. But a new study finds they could enter a metastable stage where they look similar to white holes.

Blue Origin continues putting its first lunar lander through its paces, testing the spacecraft at NASA centers across the nation to prepare it for its upcoming mission to the moon.

NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured the Milky Way rising above Earths atmospheric glow on April 13, 2026, while aboard a SpaceX Dragon docked to the International Space Station. This atmospheric glow is also called ai...

Week in images: 04-08 May 2026 Discover our week through the lens

Paraguay signed the Artemis Accords May 7, the sixth country to do so in the last two and a half weeks.

NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft rests after its flight around the moon, charred from the return to Earth.

Aerospace engineers have to consider numerous factors when designing a spacecraft, but one that comes up more and more often is the need to design against Micro-Meteoroids and Orbital Debris (MMOD). While most designers ...

NASA announced Friday that Brian Hughes will return to the agency as senior director of launch operations, based at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this role, Hughes will provide enterprise-level leadersh...

With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks like a stack of flattened silver and gold soda cans bundled together, into the air and lower it into a rectangular cart on wheels. A ta...

Forget apps - May's bright stars and classic spring constellations make this the perfect time to learn the sky the old-fashioned way, one star-hop at a time.

A new study, published in Science Advances, has refined some important details about the moon's largest and oldest impact crater, which stretches more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) on the far side of the moon. The new ...