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Alien probe or a "chunk of Pluto"? The scientific debate over 'Oumuamua continues

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has now collected two rock samples, with signs that they were in contact with water for a long period of time boosting the case for ancient life on the Red Planet.

NASA's long-awaited and high-powered James Webb Space Telescope won't begin observations this year after NASA and its counterpart the European Space Agency (ESA) announced another launch delay.

Scientists detected a repeating radio signal near the center of the Milky Way, and it's unlike anything else they've ever studied.

When Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson became the first billionaire to fly to space with his own company on July 11, he may have also come close to becoming the first billionaire to crash during a spaceflight.

The Chinese government is inviting scientists to help build an enormous, one-kilometer (0.6 miles) long spacecraft that it wants to construct in orbit.

Teams working on the James Webb Space Telescope have completed testing of the giant observatory and are now preparing to ship it to the launch site ahead of its journey to space later this year.

This could be further proof that magnetars are responsible for most, if not all, FRBs.

Astronomers researched a planetary system only 35 light-years away that contains rocky exoplanets, and they found that it may have a planet in the habitable

"The Kepler and K2 missions just keep on giving!" Harvard astrophysicist, David Latham told The Daily Galaxy. "Operations ended more than three years ago when the spacecraft ran out of fuel, but we continue to mine the data archives for celest

Lockheed Martin will go on an important mission to Jupiter, which is the first in the history of space missions.

In the past decade, the discovery of extrasolar planets has accelerated immensely. To date, 4,424 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,280 star systems, with another 7,453 awaiting confirmation. So far, most of these planets have been gas giants, with abou

Kepler space telescope has managed to spot 27 signals hinting a presence of rogue exoplanets.

Tantalizing evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of "free-floating" planets, planets that may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star. The results include four new discoveries that are consistent with planets of similar

Planets the size of Earth could be hidden in binary star systems, with the light of their suns hiding them from view

Remember the stunning video of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars? The Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) has now released similar video footage from its Zhurong rover, including the sounds recorded as it plummeted through the Martian atmosp

Temperatures around the Martian south pole mean the lakes are likely to be frozen.

Scientists at Cornell University and the American Museum of Natural History have identified 2,034 nearby star-systems—within the small cosmic distance of 326 light-years—that could find Earth merely by watching our pale blue dot cross our sun.

Here's why experts claim this is a strange one.

A new study takes a look at how the presence of a surface can affect an exoplanets atmosphere, giving astrobiologists a way to study exoplanet surfaces without having to "see" them directly. The post A New Technique for "Seeing" Exoplanet