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Despite not actually getting to walk on its surface, the Apollo 13 astronauts were still able to visit the moon from a distance of around 158 miles which is closer than most of their fellow Earth dwellers will ever get to it. You can, however, see exactly

Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.

For most of human history, the question of whether or not extraterrestrial life exists has been philosophical. It's only in recent years that we have had the hard-science modeling tools and observational technology to address this question. A team of

The first published data from the Yutu 2 rover's ground-penetrating radar instrument reveal the layered structure beneath the gray dirt of Von Krmn Crater's floor.

The object measures about 6 feet to 11 feet across, and its orbit suggests that it entered Earth's orbit around three year ago.

After an usual period of dimming Betelgeuse is growing brighter. But no supernova yet. /Doom off.

Originally discovered by the Kepler space telescope, G 940b has just been confirmed as an exoplanet by a team of Penn State researchers using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) located in Texas. This world, G 940b, is at least twice as large as Earth,

The largest unnamed dwarf planet circling our sun finally has a name rather than just a catalog number.

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched a commercial Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station for NASA after a week of delays.

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. The stunning new images of the star's surface show not only the fading red supergiant b

The Breakthrough Listen SETI project has scanned the interstellar Comet Borisov for "technosignatures" but come up empty so far.

Grady proposes that the frigid ocean beneath Europa’s layer of ice up to 15 miles deep could harbor octopus-like creatures.

A government report announced that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team gives the project just a 12% chance of launching in March 2021.

A company called Axiom Space is taking the idea of co-working space to a new altitude.

Astronomers believe Proxima B to have livable conditions needed by human beings to survive.

The US military is boldly going where no one has gone before. President Trump unveiled the official emblem of the newly minted Space Force Friday, and observers quickly noted a strong resemblance to the symbol of an even more famous interstellar unit &mda

For the first time, the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a roughly Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of its host star, the zone of orbital distances where liquid water could be stable on a world's surface.

NASA has a lot of high-tech hardware cruising around in space right now, but one of the space agency's pint-sized exoplanet hunters appears to have gone dark. In a post by NASA's Jet Pr...

"For a long time, I assumed there was something wrong with the data interpretation," said astrophysicist Duane Pontius, who developed a theoretical model that played a role in the discovery of geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. "It's

It's a supergiant star in the final stage of its life, and it just dimmed by an enormous amount. What's going on?