In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as 'Oumuamua - the first known ...

A distant interstellar cloud was found to contain an abundance of pyrene, a type of large carbon-containing molecules known ...

Life showed up really early on Earth – it needed complex carbon molecules to do so. A new discovery hints that these ...

Since its ​launch​​​ in 2014, ​the ​Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI) ​system ​has served as NASA’s online repository for physical science data. ​Now​​​, the PSI system​ is​ ​live with new​​​ ...

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"By learning more about how these molecules form and are transported in space, we learn more about our own solar system and so, the life within it." ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instruments on three sun-orbiting observatories have captured sequences of comet ...

New science experiments for NASA are set to launch aboard the agency’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply services mission to ...

The human species is ever-changing and so is our view of the universe.

A NASA spacecraft is tumbling through space as engineers on the ground work to fix an issue that caused it to lose control.

The intense solar flare originated from sunspot region AR3869 and unfolded over the span of an hour, reaching its peak at ...

F inding new ways to travel through space is not easy and this is why tests are important – even though some snags might ...