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Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials—and hints at answers to one of the great mysteries of science.

The US Space Agency released an image of NGC 2264, a group of young stars, that's also known as the Christmas tree cluster ...

The Parker probe was launched in 2018 as part of NASA’s Living With a Star program with the aim of “touching” the sun. It has ...

Astronomers hope the Proba-3 mission will help them get a better view of the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, which is ...

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore.

NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed.

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gave a farewell interview from Kennedy Space Center offering up some advice for his likely replacement, billionaire Jared Isaacman.

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Smithsonian magazine published more than 900 science stories. Most of those appeared in our Smart News Science section, but ...