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By doubling the number of known "dark comets," astronomers have been able to split them into two...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and FAA oversee investigations of aircraft accidents in U.S. airspace. But...
India continues to perfect hardware and recovery procedures for its Gaganyaan human spaceflight program.
A total of 50 nations have now joined NASA's efforts to establish peaceful and cooperative international space...
The Earth and moon have been locked in a gravitational dance for billions of years. Each day,...
Currently, 5,788 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,326 star systems, while thousands more candidates await confirmation. So...
We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system. So far, we have only discovered two...
Violent superflares erupt from sun-like stars about once a century, far more frequently than previously expected. As...
Solar flares are bright flashes of light from the Sun that release large amounts of electromagnetic radiation....
SAN FRANCISCO – Colorado startup Locus Lock has raised venture capital to produce global navigation satellite system...
Several brief flashes on the lunar surface were captured from Earth.
A fireball lit up the skies over Indiana early Tuesday morning (Dec. 10), illuminating the cloud cover...
Could humans expand out beyond their homeworld and establish settlements on the planet Mars? The idea of...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto...
Gen. Stephen Whiting: The military is getting ‘fantastic insight’ on potential threats in orbit The post U.S....
5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover...
Io does not have a shallow global magma ocean beneath its surface, counter to previous claims, suggests...
Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the...
On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, currently in a two-year orbit around the...