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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have separated the light of a quasar from the light of its surrounding stars, providing insights into how the oldest black holes grew. Find out more about it in this article.

Sounds like utter lunar-cy. As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) readies to return astronauts to the moon and convert the space rock into an orbital outpost, plans are apparently being mulled to build a train on its…

"To reduce mission complexity, this new concept is doing one launch."

A new report this month from the NASA Office of Inspector General raises concerns about the capsule the space agency wants to use to send astronauts around the moon in just a year.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will hunt for the universe's first stars — or rather, what's left of them after they've been ripped apart by black holes.

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have located an exhaust vent attached to a "chimney" of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Their paper describing these results is published in The…

"At optical wavelengths, you would be able to see a glowing, red-hot planet with a molten lava surface," an astrophysicist said.

After a last minute delay of the debut mission of the Boeing Starliner earlier this week, a NASA contractor is warning the space agency that potentially disastrous problems may still lurk in the Atlas V rocket.

While satellites frequently pass close to each other in low Earth orbit, TIMED and Cosmos 2221's near miss was a particular cause for concern for NASA.

The warning comes two days after the space agency scrubbed the launch of the Starliner rocket

In an interview with Vatican News, the Head of NASA, Administrator Bill Nelson, reveals Holy See-US Space collaboration, commends the Vatican's Observatory for shedding light on the heavens, and shares how space travel teaches valuable…

NASA has entered a new phase of economic impact by licensing an advanced superalloy, named GRX-810, to four US companies. This move leverages NASA's research and development investments funded by taxpayers.

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NASA wants to build a magnetic levitating railway on the moon, claiming that this would be 'critical' to the operations of a moon base built by the 2030s.

UC Riverside researcher Stephen Kane reveals a flaming world, challenging our ideas of planetary extremes.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Telescope has observed indications of a venting process near the Milky Way's heart.

NASA’s new black hole visualizations simulate the dramatic effects of crossing the event horizon, highlighting the severe distortions in space-time and the eventual spaghettification near...

NASA has released new images that shed light on the eating habits of supermassive black holes. NASA has released new images that shed light on the eating habits of supermassive black holes, drawing on data from the retired Spitzer Space…