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(American Geophysical Union) In this release: Anthropogenic aerosols increasing over India, comparing climate impact of different geoengineering methods, new physical model calculates airline crews' radiation exposure, m...

A stargazer snapped an amazing shot of Comet ISON soaring though a galaxy-filled night sky.

Did you miss the solar eclipse over the weekend? Fear not! New images of the shadow of the moon passing over the Earth's surface have been released, and they're even more impressive than those Earthbound glamour shots yo...

For the next week or so, if you happen to catch a glimpse of a bright yellow-orange or ruddy hued "shooting star," you might have just seen a Taurid meteor.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: Second astronomical science cycle on NASA's SOFIA flying observatory over 11 months in 2014 to include more than 350 research hours on 47 flights.

If you’ve ever wanted to know what 3,538 exoplanets look like spinning around their stars, here you go! This is the third and latest installment of the mesmerizing Kepler Orrery videos by Daniel Fabrycky from the Keple...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: NASA has selected nine research teams from seven states for the new Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, Cal...

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the South China Sea and revealed that warm sea surface temperatures and low wind shear enabled Tropical Depression 30W to strengthen into a tropical storm.

Aerosol particles in the Earth's atmosphere scatter and absorb light differently at different wavelengths, thereby affecting the amount of incoming sunlight that reaches the planet's surface and the amount of heat that e...

Riachuelo, a densely populated river basin on the edge of Buenos Aires, is among the world's most polluted sites and has been targeted for clean-up after two centuries of stench.

Constellations seen from Earth inspire wonder in many skywatchers, but what do they look like when viewed from space? One astronaut on the International Space Station is beaming down her special cosmic views to Earthling...

Oh my, I was hoping we'd get pictures of this: The Automated Transfer Vehicle Albert Einstein burning up as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere last week: Albert Einstein was the 4th ATV sent by the European Space Agency to...

On Sunday, the shadow of the Moon passed across Africa and the Atlantic Ocean. This was the last solar eclipse of the year. The Elektro-L satellite was able to observe the eclipse, and we can see the darkness of the luna...

An update on the Planetary Society's improved Optical SETI search, with Harvard's Paul Horowitz and Curtis Mead.

I knew that if I posted a couple of cool pictures and/or videos of last Sunday's total solar eclipse, more would come in that would be even cooler. So here you go, I have two more to delight your eyeballs. The first one ...

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, where they will discuss the latest findings resulting from the an...

The origin of life is chemistry's quintessential Big Question (Image: NASA) It is often said that chemistry lacks “big questions” like physics and biology. But this is not entirely... --

Researchers from Europe and the USA have ruled out a multitude of possible parameters for dark photons - a type of dark matter and energy - with the help of white dwarfs. In some aspects, the shining of these dying stars...

ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, burnt up on 2 November at 12:04 GMT over an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean. It left the International Space Station a week earlier with 1.6 tonnes of waste...

NASA has selected nine research teams from seven states for a new institute that will bring researchers together in a collaborative virtual setting to focus on questions concerning space science and human space explorati...

A team of researchers has discovered the first examples of black holes in globular star clusters in our own galaxy, upsetting 40 years of theories against their possible existence by using an array of radio telescopes to...