Space is full of strange and fascinating phenomena that often outdo science fiction. Here are some bite-sized facts about our cosmos and beyond. The Moon isn’t round, it’s lemon-shaped, with bulging ...

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Before 2025 ends, the last solar eclipse of the year will take place today (September 21, 2025). The solar eclipse is one of nature’s most stunning e ...

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While astronauts do not leave home to go to war or face combat, families of space travelers may share a few commonalities ...

Dubbing these “closed timelike geodesics” (CTGs), Ralph and Sajeendran explain in the paper: “Such a CTG would be ideal for ...

Your body's blood-making stem cells, hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), are like factory managers who work best when calm and rested. But when stress hits, like infection or injury, they spring into ...

The Rose Parade float itself will stage the bridge of the USS Enterprise, as it makes its way on a journey like no other on ...

More layoffs are hitting JPL, the NASA research lab near Pasadena. People will begin getting their notices on Tuesday, Oct.

Up to four satellites from Elon Musk’s massive Starlink constellation are falling to Earth every day, according to space trackers. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center ...

The U.S. wants to remain a superpower in space. It can’t without supporting NASA In the early 1400s, nearly a century before Columbus’s fateful voyage to the Americas, China seemed most poised to use ...

An investigation has found that extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner’s death in a paragliding crash was caused by human error.