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Citizen science: Map the Earth's magnetic shield with t...

A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the sun toward ...

SpaceX rocket left behind a plume of chemical pollution...

Space junk returning to Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upp...

Supercomputer simulations reveal rotation drives chemic...

Advances in supercomputing have made solving a long‐standing astronomical conund...

A low-cost microscope to study living cells in zero gra...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists ne...

Cosmologists collaborate to sharpen measurements of the...

Drawing together leading experts from across the field, an international collabo...

NASA moon rocket hit by new problem, putting March laun...

NASA's new moon rocket suffered another setback Saturday, putting next month's p...

Cosmic curveball: Distant system challenges planet-form...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system t...

Occupy Mars? Or the moon? Get a reality check on Elon M...

It's an age-old debate in space circles: Should humanity's first city on another...

Martian volcanoes could be hiding massive glaciers unde...

When we think of ice on Mars, we typically think of the poles, where we can see ...

NASA will return its moon rocket to the hangar for more...

Grounded until at least April, NASA's giant moon rocket is headed back to the ha...

The optical engineering required to photograph an Earth...

More and more papers are coming out about the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observat...

Astronomers discover rare super-Jupiter orbiting distan...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team...

Exomoons could reveal themselves through lunar eclipses

Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons; more than 400 orbit the eight pla...

Curiosity rover captures Martian spiderwebs up close

For about six months, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region fu...

Young 'sun' caught blowing bubbles by Chandra

For the first time, a much younger version of the sun has been caught red-handed...

Auroras on Ganymede and Earth share striking similarities

New observations of Ganymede reveal a striking similarity between the auroras on...