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Humankind has just been presented with the the precise position and brightness of 1,140,622,719 stars in the first data release from the European Space Agency mission (ESA). It is the "largest all-sky survey of celestial...

The first catalogue of more than a billion stars from ESA's Gaia satellite was published today - the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date.

A nurse who was infected with Zika in the Dominican Republic suffered from neurological problems. Her case provides evidence the mosquito-borne virus can affect the brains of human adults.

(Phys.org)--New research conducted by a team of astronomers from the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France and the Notre Dame University - Louaize in Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon, reveals that a B-type main-sequence star designate...

In the coming decades, the world's largest space agencies all have some rather big plans. Between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), Roscosmos, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), or the China National Spa...

An experiment to explore the aftermath of cosmic dawn, when stars and galaxies first lit up the universe, has received nearly $10 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to expand its detector array in So...

Looking for food that could be harvested by astronauts far from Earth, researchers focused on spirulina, which has been harvested for food in South America and Africa for centuries. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti a...

The competition between billionaire space entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos has reached a new level.

Can smoking addiction be all in your head? A study has found that a person's perception and beliefs influence the effect of substances in issues like craving and addiction.

E-cigarettes may have helped about 18,000 people in England to give up smoking in 2015, according to new research. It's estimated that 2.8 million people in the UK use e-cigarettes. And they are the most popular smoking ...

The first catalog of more than a billion stars from ESA's Gaia satellite was published today - the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date. On its way to assembling the most detailed 3-D map ever made of our....

A 30-ton meteor - believed to be the world's second largest - was discovered in northern Argentina, a news report said Monday.

What do the presidential candidates think about science? Normally, these topics barely get a head nod from the hopefuls. But this year is very very different. Donald Trump, who barely can make two coherent sentences in a...

A seemingly unrelated setting disables Bubble and Screen Effects in iMessage in Apple's new mobile software.

In the world of music streaming, numbers mean everything. Major players have come and go, but Spotify and Apple are the two companies who largely dominate the market. After Tim Cook kicked off last week's iPhone 7 event ...

Mars Analogues for Space Exploration: The MASE team will be attending the EANA 16 meeting in Athens, Greece between 27-30 September 2016 and 6 MASE-related presentations will be given: Detecting biochemical evidence for ...

Samsung began a global Note7 recall program a while back, but according to Apteligent, users are still stubbornly using their Note7 devices despite all the risks.

A team using the Hubble Space Telescope has imaged circumstellar disk structures (CDSs) around three stars similar to our Sun. The stars are all G-type solar analogs, and the disks themselves share similarities with our ...

The majestic auroras have captivated humans for thousands of years, but their nature -- the fact that the lights are electromagnetic and respond to solar activity -- was only realized in the last 150 years. Thanks to coo...

Honoring Theodore von Kármán, world famous authority on aerospace sciences, the von K rm n Lectureship in Astronautics recognizes an individual who has performed notably and distinguished himself technically in the fie...

China will launch its second space lab on Thursday, official media said Wednesday, as the Communist country works towards setting up its own space station, among several ambitious goals.

About 5 million Americans who have high blood pressure do not take their medicines properly. Improper use of these drugs may put older adults at risk for heart disease and other unwanted health outcomes.