Many people imagine the space between the stars as an empty, cold infinity. In reality, it is teeming with extraordinary ...

Scientists analyzing an ultra-hot giant planet believe it was formed by absorbing lightweight gases like methane evaporating ...

NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles’ “Across the ...

Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...

Middle school students in Salt Lake City are slipping on headsets and stepping into outer space— all without leaving the ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi spoke with students from the ...

The state has long supported the development of a robust commercial space sector, and this budget is a further step in that direction. Congress will have the final say and the cost to science ...

and trunks — the probe aims to capture the most detailed measurements of forest carbon ever recorded from space. That could be a game-changer for climate science. Forests — often called the ...

Morehead State University has become a household name at NASA in the last decade. The space science program continues to contribute to NASA and commercial space missions and prepare students for ...

Casey Dreier, the policy advocate for the Pasadena-based Planetary Society, says, “This is an extinction-level event for the Earth- and space-science communities, upending decades of work and ...

So is it true that you can't burp in space? The answer is messier than you might expect. You can't burp in microgravity the way you would on Earth, experts told Live Science. That's because ...

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