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Astronomers have identified a nearby 'forbidden planet' with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and it shouldn't be where it is.

A NASA astronaut stationed on the International Space Station has snapped an incredible photograph of Earth's auroras encompassing the planet.

NASA's Near-Earth Object Close Approach database has confirmed that this week four asteroids will be making a close approach to Earth.

A space burial company has decided to send DNA samples of George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan to space.

Officials have announced that some kind of object has collided with a spacecraft docked at the International Space Station, causing damage.

A NASA scientist has penned a paper that calls for a mission to Uranus to study the ancient ice giant that hasn't been visited since 1986.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an incredible photograph of a butterfly in the stars that will eventually fade and become a corpse.

An asteroid that was recently identified plummeted to the surface of Earth only hours after it was discovered, and now the meteorite has been found.

An international team of researchers discovered an exoplanet relatively close to Earth, and it's approximately the same size as our pale blue dot..

An asteroid more than 3,000 feet wide is about to pass Earth, and it will make its closest approach to our planet in the last 400 years.

Skywatchers caught a falling asteroid on video only hours after the European Space Agency (ESA) was notified of the incoming space rock.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a stunning video of a major solar flare eruption that forced a radio blackout for parts of Earth.

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered surprising and what is now being described as the clearest evidence Curiosity has gathered of Mars' watery past.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shared a video of the rocket that is poised to take humans to Mars test firing its multiple Raptor engines.

A team of astronomers has identified an extremely rare star system that is on its way to dying in an explosive collision called a kilonova.

A group of researchers has used an alien-detecting artificial intelligence system to identify eight 'suspicious' signals that randomly disappeared.

NASA has confirmed that its James Webb Space Telescope has accidentally snapped a photograph of a rogue asteroid that's called an 'interloper'.

NASA's Curiosity rover has stumbled across a metallic object that crashed into the surface of Mars. The rover has snapped photos of the discovery.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has left scientists stunned at what it just captured as the Sun spawned in a vortex near its north pole.

Scientists have discovered evidence pointing to a 'stealth' ocean world in our solar system, which may contain a geologically young ocean.

Astronomers have discovered that Jupiter has an additional twelve moons that previously weren't counted towards its total, which is nearing 100.

NASA has confirmed a helicopter has flown over the top of its Mars rover named Perseverance, which is tasked with finding signs of ancient microbial life.

NASA's multi-billion observatory is earning its stars and stripes by becoming what NASA now calls the ultimate space paleontologist.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has experienced a glitch, and now the space agency has given an update on the observatories condition.

A comet that last passed Earth around 50,000 years ago is making its way toward Earth, and it may even be visible to the naked eye.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed what appears to be the face of an enormous Martian teddy bear staring back at the camera.

NASA has confirmed via a statement that its brand new James Webb Space Telescope has glitched, with one of its instruments initiating a safety time-out.

An asteroid that was only discovered a few days ago, on January 21, is set to make a very close approach to Earth in the coming days.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has peered into a molecular cloud and discovered interstellar ice colder than ever discovered before.

Researchers have found that one of Saturn's moons, which is a prime location to look for extraterrestrial life, is covered in a snow-like material.

NASA has said that its James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed its first exoplanet and that it's almost exactly the same size as Earth.

NASA has already revealed details on its next-generation space telescope that will be purposely built to identify alien life on other planets.

NASA's Artemis 1 mission, which sent the Orion spacecraft on a journey beyond the Moon, covering 1.4 million miles, has been opened by engineers.

Virgin Orbit announced that its first-ever orbital mission launched from the UK had suffered an anomaly resulting in the loss of nine satellites.

NASA has confirmed that the Sun has released a massive solar flare on January 9, putting out powerful bursts into space that may damage Earth.

A vintage NASA satellite that was launched about forty years ago on the Challenger space shuttle plummeted back to Earth over the weekend.

January and February may feature an incredible cosmic sight for skywatchers as comet C/2022 E3 makes its first approach to Earth in over 50,000 years.

NASA's Curiosity rover may have just made a major breakthrough discovery by stumbling upon what could be a possible water source for astronauts.

NASA's Juno mission has been exploring Jupiter's inner Moons and has snapped a new image of the innermost and third-largest of the four Galilean Moons.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured 13.4 billion-year-old light from what is now deemed the oldest galaxy ever detected.

The Moon appears small in the sky, but when orbiting it from only a few thousand miles from its surface, you realize just how big it is.

What we now refer to as the Blue Marble originates from an incredible photograph that was taken 50 years ago by NASA's Apollo 17 crew.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a young star cluster that's 30 light years in diameter and about 160,000 light years from Earth.

NASA has posted an incredible video showing its Orion spacecraft passing the lunar surface at a distance of 687 miles on its way to just 79 miles.

The European Space Agency's newest scientific instrument has been used to capture the heart of a distant galaxy, revealing it in mesmerizing detail.

NASA's Orion spacecraft, on its Artemis 1 mission, has snapped an incredible photo of Earth at its maximum distance away from Earth.

A team of researchers has discovered a meteorite in Somalia that contains two new minerals that have never been seen on Earth before.

NASA has published a photo snapped by the famous Hubble Space Telescope that focuses on a globular star cluster located 23,000 light years from Earth.

NASA has announced that mission controllers temporarily lost communication with its Orion capsule, that's currently on its way toward the Moon.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has observed a distant exoplanet in more detail than ever before, reaching a new milestone in exoplanet exploration.