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While Lunar Trailblazer's mission is no longer possible, the space agency is assessing other options for the spacecraft.
The Trump administration withdrew Weldon's nomination just minutes before a crucial Senate committee hearing.
Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale.
A French university says it's providing safe harbor to American scientists from Yale, Stanford, NASA, and the NIH.
The ESA probe spotted the moon while en route to witness the aftermath of NASA's asteroid deflection test.
Researchers in Spain have unearthed several important factors that likely helped Maria Branyas Morera live for over a century, one of which is particularly unusual.
A slab of rock at an Australian high school, a boulder in a parking lot, and a bookend in a private collection feature 200-million-year-old dinosaur footprints.
The fully formed galaxy is remarkably teeny, raising new questions about how galaxies emerge and evolve.
The discovery of 128 new moons puts Saturn way ahead of its rival, Jupiter.
Measles has killed at least one child and hospitalized at least 30 people in the U.S. this year.
The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.
The mission means the stranded Starliner astronauts can finally return home, but the plan was in motion long before Trump claimed to step in.
On March 13, Earth's shadow will fall across the surface of the Moon, giving it a bloody red hue.
A new study finally sheds light on our mysterious cosmic neighbors and sets a planet-hunting record.
Blue Ghost is in the midst of spending an entire lunar day on the surface of the Moon, or the equivalent of 14 days on Earth.
The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.
New research suggests that frequent blood donation can trigger genetic changes that might protect certain stem cells from becoming cancerous.
Newly announced layoffs highlight the troubling impact of DOGE on the space agency and federal workers as a whole.
When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.
The experimental work on animals could lead to more effective penile implants for humans.
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