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In September of 2012, scientists with the newly launched Van Allen Probes got permission to turn on one of their instruments after only three days in space instead of waiting for weeks, as planned. They wanted to turn on...

Scientists have know about cosmic rays for a century. But these high-energy subatomic particles, which stream through space at nearly the speed of light and crash into the Earth's upper atmosphere, have been mostly a mys...

Astronomers have taken what is likely the first-ever direct image of a planet that is still undergoing its formation, embedded in its "womb" of gas and dust. The protoplanet, about the size of Jupiter, is in the disc sur...

On this day (Feb. 28) in 1966, the Gemini 9 prime crew was in a T-38 airplane making a final approach to a McDonnell Aircraft plant in St. Louis, Missouri. Amid deteriorating weather conditions, Elliot See tried to make ...

Freshly delivered from Cassini's wide-angle camera, this raw image gives us another look at Saturn's north pole and the curious hexagon-shaped jet stream that encircles it, as well as the spiraling vortex of clouds at it...

Light pollution is a two-way murky street. Not only have millions of people never seen the glow of our Milky Way in the night sky because of light pollution, but also when astronauts in the International Space Station lo...