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Today: Medaka Osteoclast 2: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Wakata activated the Multi-Purpose Small Payload Rack (MSPR) Hub unit and installed the Medaka Chamber in the fluorescent microscope for observation of a Medaka sample o...

Enrico Saggese offered to resign his post "to better defend my integrity, honor and prestige" in the face of an apparently broad corruption investigation targeting ASI and other aerospace agencies in Italy.

The study is one of several exercises led by Gen. William Shelton that are intended to help shape the future of the service's space portfolio.

A new deep view of the universe from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed one of the youngest galaxies ever observed by astronomers.

Astronomers may have found the oldest known star in the universe. The ancient star formed not long after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, according to Australian National University scientists.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: A new animation made at NASA using imagery from NOAA's GOES-West satellite shows a Pineapple Express bringing precipitation from Hawaii to California Feb. 7-9.

A light-colored object on a dark background appears larger than a dark object on a light background, until recently, no one knew why. Now, a study suggests that a difference in how the brain's cells respond to light and ...

There have been tons and tons of HiRISE images of the Curiosity landing region, and it has taken quite a lot of work for me to find, locate, and catalogue them. This post is a summary of what I've found.

(Phys.org) --Martian experts have known since 2011 that mysterious, possibly water-related streaks appear and disappear on the planet's surface. Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D. candidate Lujendra Ojha discovered th...

There have been a lot of attempts over the years to figure out the mass of a neutrino (a type of elementary particle). A new analysis not only comes up with a number, but also combines that with a new understanding of th...

What a tangled web of water and water ice stories on Mars. There’s likely some underground. There’s definitely some at the north pole. And we are pretty certain water flowed there in the ancient past. But what about ...

Host: Scott Lewis Astronomers: Nicole Gugliucci, Chris Kennedy, Tom Nathe, David Dickinson, James McGee (...)Read the rest of Virtual Star Party – February 9, 2014: Fire is Bad for Seeing! (61 words) © susie for Unive...

This vivid space wallpaper shows a region of the planet's northern hemisphere known as Hephaestus Fossae - after the Greek god of fire - that was imaged by the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express orbiter ...

Get those telescopes ready: the coming months offer Earthbound viewers some great views of the planet Mars. Mars reaches opposition for 2014 on April 8th. This is approaching season represents the best time to observe Ma...

New images of galaxy Centaurus A, equivalent to a single Chandra X-Ray telescope exposure nearly 10 days long taken between 1999 and 2012, shows bright jets from a supermassive black hole. A dark dust lane is a fossil of...

If your sky is clear tonight (Feb. 10), be sure to check out the southeast sky about an hour or so after sundown for an eye-catching site: Jupiter and the moon shining together. Weather permitting, stargazers can find th...

As the Beatles strummed the opening notes to “All My Loving” on the Ed Sullivan Show 50 years ago yesterday, few could have imagined how wide-ranging that music would be. The broadcast gave birth to a global music ph...

Why is Dan Rather hosting this week's episode? The legendary news anchor stopped by our studio to teach NASA's Josh Byerly the finer points of anchoring a newscast. NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's ...

Today: FGB Power and Data Grapple Fixture (PDGF) Resistance Test: Today Flight Engineer (FE)-4 Tyurin disconnected Russian to American Converter Unit (RACU)-5 and RACU-6 Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) sy...

"Astronomers will have scanned enough star systems by 2040 that we'll have discovered alien-produced electromagnetic signals," said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountai...

I have some good news: A bill introduced by the South Dakota Legislature that specifically would have allowed the teaching of creationism (in the guise of intelligent design) is DOA. I'm glad it's dead; such a bill is a ...

Astronaut Kathy Thornton prepares to release the damaged Hubble Space Telescope array after removing it.