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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

A woman's habit of keeping her contact lenses in while swimming and showering had serious consequences.

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

Researchers report ultraprecise imaging of a postmortem human brain.

A small UK study found promising signs of a kinder, less invasive treatment for the disease.

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

Are young people really growing horns from using their smart phones? The short answer is no, but for a while media coverage seemed to suggest otherwise.

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

After a bombshell report detailing near-daily interactions with unidentified flying objects by Navy pilots in 2014 and 2015, former Secretary of Defense for IntelligenceChristopherMellon has argued that this information is nothing new, and the government needs to do something about it.

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

As nuclear explosions go, the US "Cactus" bomb test in May 1958 was relatively small—but it has left a lasting legacy for the Marshall Islands in a dome-shaped radioactive dump.

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...

A Blue Moon is the second full moon within a full month. So why is there a Blue Moon on Saturday (May 18), given that it's May's first full moon?

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