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NASA satellite has discovered two dozen nearby planets and expects hundreds more

The rock, now named 2019 OK, came within a scant 43,500 miles of Earth, which is far closer than the Moon is to Earth, and astronomers didn’t even know it was there until it was already upon us. The Sun, it turns out, is to blame for our lack of awareness.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 21 planets outside our solar system and captured data on other interesting events occurring in the southern sky during its first year of science. TESS has now turned its attention to t

President Trump has set his sights on the Moon. Elon Musk's are on Mars. But some of the edgier talk urges an event bolder national aim — a human mission to Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Driving the news: A mania broke out in the U.S. last w

Russia's space agency says a Russian Proton-M rocket has successfully delivered a cutting-edge space telescope into orbit after days of launch delays.Roscosmos said the telescope, named Spektr-RG, was delivered into a parking orbit before a final burn

A project to 3-D print bulky components in space rather than bring them up there has collected a $73.7 million contract from NASA to demonstrate the technique in space. Archinaut, a mission now several years in development from Made In Space, could launch

An Australian-led research effort has managed to pinpoint the location of the first non-repeating Fast Radio Burst, which could have immense implications for astronomy. The post A Fast Radio Burst has Finally Been Traced Back to its Source: the Outskirts

Scientists say Ahuna Mons formed when salty, rocky mud rose to the surface of Ceres and froze.

The Curiosity mission's scientists picked up the signal this week, and are seeking additional readings from the red planet.

Scientists hope to study the Taurid meteor shower closely, in hopes of better predicting the risk of a future impact

Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to us, at 4.37 light-years (about 25 trillion miles) away. In 2016, astronomers discovered an exoplanet orbiting one of the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system. Spurred on by that discovery, the European Sout

Scientists have located organic matter that is extraterrestrial in origin, in 3.3 billion year old rocks. This supports the theory that organic chemicals arrived on our planet aboard a meteorite and created the building blocks for life. The post Scientist

A new study supported by NASA has revealed that an ancient ocean on Venus might have been what slowed down its rotation, thus causing the runaway greenhouse effect that made it what it is today. The post Theory proposes that Venus could have been habitabl

Prepare yourselves, astronomy fans: a mile-wide double asteroid is approaching Earth and may be visible on Saturday night, May 25, according to the Farmers Almanac.The asteroid is categorized as 1999 KW4 and consists of a primary spac...

The Blue Origin boss has revealed a set of futuristic space habitats for humankind

NASA's mission to get humans, including the first woman, to the moon again in 2024 has been named Artemis, after a Greek goddess of the moon

The president mentioned on Twitter other projects targeted in his budget, including the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

Mars as we know it today is a mostly dry, dusty place with a few pockets of ice in remote regions. It's barren and we're pretty sure it's lifeless today, but that might not have a...

A rather sizeable chunk of space rock is due to zoom past our planet tomorrow. Dubbed asteroid 2019 HO3, the celestial object is estimated to be up to 393 feet wide and will swing through our corner of space in the early hours of Wednesday morning for a s

Visions of space rocks slamming into Earth aren't just for dinosaurs and Hollywood movies.