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The 4-mile trek from the launch pad today (Feb. 25) took about 10.5 hours.

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans

Voyager 1 is one of the fastest human-made things on Earth, and also the most distant from our planet - but what does that speed look like IRL?

Old Apollo rocks are providing a fresh take on the moon's magnetic field. The lunar magnetic field is currently weak or even nonexistent, but cranked up to superstrength for short snippets of time more than a billion years ago.

High-speed imaging reveals that the squeak of soft–rigid frictional interfaces, like sneakers sliding on a basketball court, arises from intersonic opening slip pulses—analogous to earthquake ruptures—that thin ridges on the rubber confine to repeat at a musi…

The lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts suggested the moon had a strong magnetic field. A new analysis shows the opposite.

The massive rocket that will propel four astronauts into deep space had to be moved off the launchpad for repairs.

A common mechanism of inhibition of the essential lipid II flippase MurJ by three distinct phage-encoded single-gene lysis proteins provides insights into potential new targets for antimicrobial development.

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), which advises NASA and Congress on safety, has released its 2025 annual report on NASA’s performance and challenges.   While the panel acknowledged NASA’s safety achievements, it warned that the agency’s biggest challenges stem from interconnected factors 

NASA's Mike Fincke identified himself Wednesday as the astronaut whose medical condition prompted the space agency's first medical evacuation.

The moon will tint red for nearly an hour on March 3 as the Earth gets between the moon and the sun.

NASA is moving its grounded Artemis moon rocket from the launch pad back to its hangar for more repairs.

Elucidation of fundamental pancreatic-targeted mechanisms enables the development of lipid nanoparticles for the precise delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics to the pancreas, highlighting their promising potential in the treatment of pancreatic diseases.

Despite historical records saying otherwise, Roman babies were mourned at death, research into unique plaster burials from York reveals.

The light from the beginning of the universe appears to be rotated, but by what?

Fixing the Space Launch System rocket's helium pressurization problem has pushed the Artemis II launch to at least April 1.

A telescope in Chile has revealed in unprecedented detail the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Perhaps surprisingly, the answer isn't climate change.

NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway smiles up at the camera as he enters the International Space Station Feb. 14, 2026, after docking to the orbiting laboratory aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Since Hathaway and fellow Crew-12 members Jessica Meir of NASA, Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency), a