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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.

After a string of discoveries, alien life is not as far-fetched as it used to be.

Beautiful blue planets with endless oceans may be orbiting many of the Milky Way's one trillion stars. In 2016, for example, Kepler astronomers discovered planets that are unlike anything in our solar system a "water world" planetary system or

What do NASA engineers, synthetic biologists and Silicon Valley VCs do for Coachella? Throw a party to talk about colonizing space.

Space accelerator to build bridges with military — Mars in 2033 just not possible, report concludes

An experimental NASA payload from the Beresheet spacecraft might still be intact someplace on the lunar surface. Researchers plan to begin scouring the likely crash site for signs of the Lunar Retroreflector Array (LRA). The post NASA Experiment Might Hav

Today, Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket will launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Check for it in the afternoon sky.

NASA's planet-hunting TESS mission has found its first Earth-size exoplanet in a nearby star system 53 light-years from Earth. Another exoplanet, a warm mini-Neptune, was found in the same system.