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NASA said a rocket of unknown national origin that crashed into the moon earlier this year produced a double crater on the surface, an unexpected feat. The agencys Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, wh

Deep field images of the universe, exoplanet atmospheres, and more to be unveiled.

The huge sunspot has the potential to send a solar flare our way. Whether it will or not remains to be seen.

First identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), this system has two Earth-sized planets around a small M-dwarf star, named HD 260655.

Did China stumble with strange signals coming from exoplanets?

Impact at the end of May bad enough to garble data, but NASA isn't worried

China's Earth 2.0 Telescope would look for Earth-size exoplanets with similar orbits around sun-like stars, in hopes of finding an Earth

Ridges that criss-cross the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa indicate there are shallow pockets of water beneath, boosting hopes in the search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists said Tuesday.

The worst of this one will miss us, but it is a hint of what's to come.

The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we never find them.

NASA's planned effort to communicate with extraterrestrials may provoke an alien invasion, Oxford scientists have warned

Satellites and power systems could be affected by the huge mass of plasma that's on course to collide with our planet

The mega-comet first spotted in 2021 is the largest ever seen according to observations by scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA might launch the new Solar System Space Telescope (SSST).

NASAs Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universes birth in the big bang the farthest individual star ever seen to date.

On Wednesday, March 30 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, NASA will announce an exciting new observation from the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has dazzled humanity for more than three decades with its iconc images of the cosmos. For nearly 32 years, Hubbles groundbreaking discoveries have rewritten textbooks and

The count of confirmed exoplanets has just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has unanimously voted to suspend a joint Mars mission with Russia.

A recent survey using the powerful Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile has come up empty despite scanning a huge swath of the sky, casting even more doubt on Planet 9's existence. The post Expansive Sky Survey Finds No Sign of Planet 9 appeared

"Wherever we look, it's a deep field."