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Did a vast ocean once cover Mars' northern plains? The idea has been hotly debated among scientists for the past 20 years, ever since Viking Orbiter images revealed possible ancient shorelines near the pole. Later findin...

Planetary Ventures will take over management of Moffett Federal Airfield from NASA's Ames Research Center.

Upcoming deep space missions will venture right to the heart of the Solar System.

Pop quiz. How did Einstein win his Nobel prize? Was it for relativity? Nope, Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the discovery of the photoelectric effect; how electrons are emitted from atoms when they absorb photo...

Prepare yourselves for the Greatest Show Not on Earth. Offering us all a front-row seat for planetary images that could make Google Earth seem so last decade, a slew of Bay Area startups have begun launching small, relat...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Joe Latrell at his Photos To Space blog.

This composite image shows the weather situation over Europe at 12:00 UTC on 13 February 2014....

Zooniverse -- the renowned home of citizen science projects -- is now one million strong. That's one million registered volunteers since the project began less than seven years ago. It all began when Galaxy Zoo launched ...

The highly distorted supernova remnant, called W49B, is about a thousand years old, as seen from Earth, and is at a distance of about 26,000 light years away shown in the image above may contain the most recent black hol...

The Zooniverse achieved a major milestone last Friday. The 1 millionth (that’s right 1 with 6 zeros after it!) person registered for a Zooniverse account. While writing this blog, I decided to go and read the very firs...

Who wants Adam Savage’s job right now? The cohost of Mythbusters spent the last year working with a San Francisco Bay-area costume designer to come up with this remarkable Mercury spacesuit. While it’s not a faithful...

If it weren’t for that blue sky and those trees in behind, we’d be convinced that this little robot is landing on Mars. The Morpheus Lander once again proved how hard-core amazing these free flights are, as the autom...

While the world is having a good time watching Olympic sports in Sochi, about a day’s drive north in Russia there are a bunch of astronauts using their evenings for a different purpose: reading an 18-inch high stack of...

There are so many galaxies in the universe that if you point a telescope in any direction in the night's sky you are bound to see some.

Named after its discoverer, the French-Armenian astronomer Agop Terzan, this is the globular cluster Terzan 7--a densely packed ball of stars bound together by gravity. It lies just over 75,000 light-years away from us o...

On Jan. 30, in response to an invitation from NASA Headquarters, the Kepler team submitted a proposal to the 2014 Astrophysics Senior Review of Operating Missions to continue scientific observations with the Kepler space...

A lot can happen in 10 years. Over the past decade an international laboratory, widely known but often under-appreciated, has been producing results at an extraordinary rate. Using its unique capabilities,

(Phys.org) --These are, in fact, the droids that NASA and its research partners are looking for. Inspired by a floating droid battling Luke Skywalker in the film Star Wars, the free-flying satellites known as Synchronize...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a huge place: It has something like 200 billion stars in it. When you go out on the darkest night imaginable and look up, it seems like the sky is filled with stars, but in reality you can only se...

(Phys.org) --CubETH is the name of a joint project between EPFL's Swiss Space Center and ETHZ whose main objective is to build a satellite scheduled for launch in late 2015. The CubETH spacecraft will be capable of calcu...

Ashley Dale, a PhD student in Aerospace engineering, led a team of seven experts on the two week mission to the Mars Desert Research Station [MDRS] in Utah.

A study of teeny-tiny meteorite fragments revealed that two essential components of life on Earth as we know it, could have migrated to our planet on space dust.