NASA astronaut Bob Hines took to Twitter to share photographs taken of Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, August 17th. Hines shared a collection of four photos from a lar… [+1410 chars]
NASA's upcoming Artemis 1 mission may be focused on the moon, but at least one of its payloads will turn its focus instead to the sun. Hitching a ride on NASA's Artemis 1 is a CubeSat weather stat… [+2571 chars]
A custom-built test chamber for a new NASA space telescope has arrived at Caltech in Pasadena to help ready the spacecraft for launch in 2025. The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe,… [+2237 chars]
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Astrophysicists may have discovered that stars set their own mass during star formation. The revelation may finally solve the mystery of why stars that are born in radically different conditions ac… [+4528 chars]
The hunt for water on Mars has a long history. In the latest development, new analysis of seismic data from the Mars InSight mission of NASA has revealed some surprising facts about the red planet. N… [+1628 chars]
A long time ago, climate change caused an unexpected change in the Earth’s biosphere: even as other species underwent mass extinction, there was a significant increase in the population and diversity… [+4564 chars]
Thirty years ago, researchers discovered the first ever exoplanets — planets outside our solar system. The planets were orbiting a pulsar, a type of neutron star, one of the most extreme objects in t… [+4093 chars]
The Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is much richer in complex organic molecules than scientists expected, and until now, some of those molecules had never been seen around a comet. Because comets … [+4673 chars]
If youve ever imagined naming a celestial body, the International Astronomical Union has a contest for you. >> Read more trending news With the recent discovery of previously unseen exoplanet… [+1968 chars]
image: As time progresses (top to bottom), the system evolves from a single configuration into two distinctly different ones, reflected in the splitting into two peaks.view more Credit: ETH Zurich … [+4483 chars]
China is building the world's largest array of telescopes dedicated to studying the sun with the aim to improve the understanding of coronal mass ejections which can cause chaos on and above Earth. … [+2232 chars]