A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

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Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

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Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the mass of a rogue planet, a celestial body wandering through space ...

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These space-themed cartoons are fun to watch with your kids, and they feature real-life space science and concepts in varying ...