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DESI maps C-19, an extremely metal-poor Milky Way stell...

Using the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, an interna...

The best places to look for alien life: Scientists iden...

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpoin...

The discovery of a buried delta on Mars could boost the...

There's more evidence that water once flowed on Mars with the discovery of an an...

The moon's going to get crowded. We should protect our ...

In 1959, the Luna 2 probe from the Soviet Union became the very first human-made...

Gravitational waves leave imprints on light emitted by ...

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime produced by violent cosmic events, ...

JUICE is planning to do science on Jupiter's 'minor' mo...

The European Space Agency's (ESA's) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe is ...

'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft

The European Space Agency announced Thursday it has re-established communication...

Project Hail Mary is packed with hard science. An astro...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the myst...

NASA's Artemis missions promise a return to the moon—bu...

NASA's Artemis II mission plans to fly around the moon and back this April. Four...

NASA returns moon rocket to pad, eyeing April 1 launch

NASA on Thursday began returning its towering SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to...

Meteorite hunters scour Ohio for fragments of 7-ton spa...

Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to ...

Smile mission set for April 9 launch to image Earth's m...

The Smile mission is set to launch on a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in...

NASA hauls its repaired moon rocket from the hangar bac...

For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out to...

What 'Project Hail Mary' gets right—and wrong—about ast...

"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi ...

ShadowCam search casts doubt on abundant lunar ice

New observations by a team of US astronomers have cast fresh doubt on whether th...

A self-sufficient Mars garden? How cyanobacteria-based ...

A research team from the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (Z...