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A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

NASA and DOE aim to deploy nuclear reactors on the Moon and in orbit, and that also includes the development of a lunar ...

Expect a further rush of spending beyond last year’s record levels, as investors chase the promise of space-based data ...

Gamma rays are invisible and ultra-powerful forms of light. They are the most energetic source of radiation known in the ...

While billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are focused on building rockets to reach space and other planets, former ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified what appears to be the largest stream of super-heated gas ever observed in the ...

Webb observations of the Sextans A galaxy reveal how stars in a metal-poor areas create cosmic dust, offering clues about the ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

A first-of-its-kind space telescope could soon launch into orbit and potentially chart a new path forward for astronomy.