Hubble’s new detection shows a planet circling a star in one of the most unlikely environments ever recorded. The readings ...

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NASA officials reacted strongly against allegations that federal employees were called back to work to dismantle laboratories ...

Recent scientific breakthroughs are making concepts once confined to science fiction, like time travel, seem tantalizingly ...

Space-watchers, hold on to your telescopes. The interstellar visitor we’ve all been buzzing about just threw a curveball.

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

Discover how scientists are using Martian orbiters to track its path and what its mysterious radio signals reveal about its ...

The annual Leonids Meteor Shower is due to illuminate our skies once again, with the best time for viewing the light show ...

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The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...

Maryland legislators came to the defense of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center amid rumors that buildings and laboratories ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered some of the universe's earliest stars, located about 13 billion light-years from Earth ...