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Frequent flares from the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 could offer new clues in the search for habitable planets beyond Earth. TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool red dwarf, located about 40 light-years away

NASA may finally be on the cusp of regaining official leadership as the Senate votes on Trump’s (re)nominated pick for the head of the space agency today. Jared Isaacman, billionaire

Every so often, the moon draws closer to Earth and appears larger, brighter, and more powerful in the night sky. These rare events are called supermoons, and each one in

Heads up aurora chasers! The northern lights could put on a show across the U.S. tonight and tomorrow as a coronal mass ejection (CME) is forecast to hit Earth, according

This article was originally published at Eos. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The solar system’s oddball planet has some pretty odd moons, too.

Can the U.S. beat China to the moon, and will NASA have the resources to do so? These were just some of the considerations raised when SpaceX billionaire private astronaut

Just as the sun slips behind the Chilean Andes, it seemed to send up a tiny emerald flare. The photograph, taken from Cerro Pachón in Chile by NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador

Communications between Earth and NASA spacecraft were critically vulnerable to hacking for years until an AI found the flaw and fixed it in just four days. The vulnerability was sniffed

The sun erupted with a powerful X1.1-class solar flare in the early hours of this morning (Dec. 8), briefly knocking out radio communications across Australia and parts of southeast Asia.

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Soyuz MS-27 Undocking – YouTube Watch On Three astronauts will head back to Earth from the International Space Station tonight (Dec. 8), and you can watch