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ESA's Proba-2 captured three partial solar eclipses on Nov. 3rd. The Sun-observing satellite orbits Earth 14.5 times a day and dipped in and out of the Moon's shadow. A hybrid eclipse = total solar eclipse or annular, de...

With nine astronauts set to crowd the International Space Station at the same time, part of its crew moved a Russian transport vehicle to a different dock to make room for the new arrivals.

India's launches its first mission to Mars on Tuesday, aiming to become the only Asian nation to reach the Red Planet with a programme designed to showcase its low-cost space technology.

This past 4th of July, a European team of astronomers led by Hongsheng Zhao of the SUPA Centre of Gravity at the University of St Andrews presented a radical new theory at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in St Andrews...

(Phys.org) --ESA's ground station on the island of Tenerife has received laser signals over a distance of 400 000 km from NASA's latest Moon orbiter. The data were delivered many times faster than possible with tradition...

(Phys.org) --The Earth's axis of rotation is tilted 23.4 degrees to its orbital motion around the Sun (more precisely, its spin axis has a tilt of 23.4 degrees with respect to the axis of its orbit). This tilt, which cau...

U.S. President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next secretary of the U.S. Air Force told lawmakers she would work on continuing to improve the service's space acquisition program, but sidestepped several other space-rel...

The countdown has commenced and the exciting is building for India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) – which will conduct a detailed study of the Martian atmosphere and is the nation's first ever mission to the Red Planet. ...

Tropical Depression 30W formed and moved through Visayas, Philippines. NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of the depression that showed it had some potential for heavy rain while moving through the central ...

The search for other Earth-like planets in the galaxy got a boost today, as Kepler's planet count bumped into the thousands -- including more than 100 in the so-called habitable zone, where liquid water could exist.

"Jim, I'm a doctor, not an entrepreneur." Image of iPhone and Tricorder courtesy of JD Hancock, via Flickr In the Star Trek universe , handheld medical tricorders became standard issue for... --

Semiconductors have had a nice run, but for certain applications, such as astrophysics, they are being edged out by superconductors. Ben Mazin, assistant professor of physics at UC Santa Barbara, has developed a supercon...

NAOJ Top News: A team of astronomers used the Subaru Prime Focus Camera to observe faitnt asteroids with highly inclined orbits. They found that a smaller fraction of tiny bodies occur among high-inclination asteroids th...

NASA: Kepler News and Features: Scientists from around the world are gathered this week at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., for the second Kepler Science Conference.

Scientists from University of California, Berkeley, and University of Hawaii, Manoa, have statistically determined that twenty percent of Sun-like stars in our solar system have Earth-sized planets that could host life.....

One of the biggest questions in astronomy today is easy to ask, and incredibly hard to answer: How many Earth-like planets are there in the Universe? By Earth-like, I mean planets roughly the size of Earth, and which are...

Planets similar to Earth may not be that rare in the galaxy, new research suggests. About one in five sunlike stars observed by NASA's Kepler spacecraft has an Earth-size planet in the so-called habitable zone, where liq...

Animation showing how scientists used the Kepler spacecraft to find the prevalence of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone around their host star.

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, the University of Basel, and Radboud University Nijmegen has now revealed the details of an important microbial process regulating the global ni...

A new study correlates a series of small earthquakes near Snyder, Texas between 2006 and 2011 with the underground injection of large volumes of gas, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2)--a finding that is relevant to the proc...

UC Berkeley and University of Hawaii astronomers analyzed all four years of Kepler data in search of Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of sun-like stars, and then rigorously tested how many planets they may have ...

Voyager 1's 'plasma wave instrument' detects electrons that are excited when solar storms interact with the ionized gas that surrounds it. They occur at frequencies up to a few thousand hertz, so it can be translated to ...