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The astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-12 mission wish that we could all see Earth as they just did -as a beautiful but fragile outpost of life in a vast void.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Stephen Cash director of the agencys Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective Monday, Oct. 19. Cash, a veteran NASA engineer and aerospace executive, retu...

The Orionid meteor shower peaks next week, but a bright moon makes much of the night less than ideal. Sometimes the sensible observing decision is knowing when to stay in bed - and when to get up early.

A University of Missouri astronomer is leading a team of 130 researchers from 62 institutions-including NASA, the California Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Harvard University-on an ambitious mission to...

Plants begin responding to spaceflight almost immediately after leaving Earth, according to a new University of Florida study that captured the earliest stages of biological adaptation during a commercial suborbital miss...

How do young stars reshape the clouds from which they are born? A new high-resolution 3D model developed by an international team led by Dr Brandt Gaches from the University of Duisburg-Essen shows how the uneven structu...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have unravelled some of the secrets of a bizarre, blisteringly hot exoplanet that has the consistency of marshmallow.

The Orionids peak around Oct. 21. Here's when and where to look for the best chance of spotting meteors.

Tesla just unveiled its new Roadster with a spectacular stunt, using SpaceX thrusters to make the sleek vehicle "fly."

'It makes you think about how you can be a better person in life. And theres always room for improvement.'

A Ph.D. student at the University of Sydney has produced the first comprehensive classification system and map of Martian soils, creating a new framework that could help scientists compare landscapes across the Red Plane...

Shortly after NASAs Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the Orion spacecrafts heat shield. In the months after, the agency measured whether the thermal prot...

Neutrinos come in three different flavors. A new study finds that neutrino flavor could play a significant role in whether a dying star becomes a supernova or collapses directly into a black hole.

You don't have to wait until dark to see the moon. Here's why it appears in broad daylight - and why this week is a particularly good time to spot it.

Years ago, astronomers spotted a strange radio formation beyond the Zone of Avoidance. The formation resembles a treble clef, a symbol in musical notation, and the nickname has stuck. Determining what created it has been...

I've chased the northern lights across the Arctic. Here are seven destinations worth considering for your next aurora adventure.

There is no shortage of stargazing apps, but unless you use these tips, you may be missing out. Here are the best ways to get the most out of them.

As the supercooled propellant flowed into the core stage, and NASAs SLS (Space Launch System) rocket roared to life, Allison Mjoen and her family watched with awe and pride. Mjoen, NASAs operations manager for the agency...

The El Gordo supercluster is unusually large given its distance. How could such a large galaxy cluster form so quickly? The answer could be that dark matter is self-interacting in an interesting two-state way.

Seven billion light-years from Earth, there is an unexpected cluster of galaxies. It has two regions in the process of colliding with each other with a combined mass of more than two quadrillion solar masses. Given its m...

What looks like a neon pink treble clef floating out in space is actually a bizarre source of radio waves spotted deep in the cosmos.

Internal NASA documents and meeting recordings reveal how Trump's executive order to rename AI as "super intelligence" is reshaping agency communications and digital systems - and raising concerns among emplo...