Spitzer spots a starry region bursting with bubbles This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of…
Musk unveils SpaceX rocket designed to get to Mars and back Elon Musk has unveiled a SpaceX spacecraft designed to…
Going underground in Slovenia … to prepare for outer space In Slovenia’s dramatically beautiful Karst region, six astronauts have been…
Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars,…
Big world around tiny star puts new spin on planet formation A giant world discovered around a tiny star is…
The next generation: mice can reproduce after space stints, study finds Male mice that spent more than a month in…
Growing a smarter model for brain research in space Researchers studying neurological diseases face several daunting challenges. For one thing,…
Can a new space race connect the world to the internet? Tech giants and billionaires hope a new, cheaper crop…
Could Venus have been habitable? Venus may have been a temperate planet hosting liquid water for 2-3 billion years, until…
Introducing VPLanet: A virtual planet simulator for modeling distant worlds across time University of Washington astrobiologist Rory Barnes has created…
Open cluster NGC 2345 investigated in detail European astronomers have performed a comprehensive study of the young open cluster NGC…
Pulsating gamma rays from neutron star rotating 707 times a second An international research team led by the Max Planck…
NASA manager casts doubt on 2024 moon landing by astronauts A top NASA manager cast doubt Wednesday on the space…
Huge volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io erupts on regular schedule Volcanic eruptions are difficult to predict, but observations have shown…
Brad Pitt talks weightlessness and calluses on phone call to ISS When Brad Pitt called the International Space Station (ISS)…
Ohio senators propose renaming NASA site for Neil Armstrong Ohio’s U.S. senators want Congress to rename a NASA research facility…
NASA’s WFIRST will help uncover the universe’s fate Scientists have discovered that a mysterious pressure dubbed “dark energy” makes up…
Gemini observatory captures multicolor image of first-ever interstellar comet The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System has been successfully…
The rare molecule weighing in on the birth of planets Astronomers using one of the most advanced radio telescopes have…
Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier The enormous black hole at the center…
Are black holes made of dark energy? Two University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle…
Hubble explores the formation and evolution of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud Just as people of the same…
India locates lander lost on final approach to moon The lander module from India’s moon mission was located on the…
India loses contact with Moon lander (Update) India’s space programme suffered a huge setback Saturday after losing contact with an…
Putin rebukes officials over space delays President Vladimir Putin on Thursday gave a dressing down to space officials on a…
Team behind world’s first black hole image wins ‘Oscar of science’ The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the world’s…
Planetary collisions can drop the internal pressures in planets A new study from Caltech shows that giant impacts can dramatically…
ESA re-routes satellite to avoid SpaceX collision risk The European Space Agency said Tuesday it had altered the trajectory of…
Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection Asteroid researchers and spacecraft engineers from the US, Europe and around the…
HOT SHOT findings could save defense tech developers time and money An early milestone for developing missile technologies is to…
Exoplanets can’t hide their secrets from innovative new instrument In an unprecedented feat, an American research team discovered hidden secrets…
