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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – China's maiden moon rover Yutu awoke from her regular two week long slumber on Friday, March 14, to begin the 4th Lunar Day since the probes history making touchdown on the surface of Earth's...

The imprint of gravitational waves created shortly after the big bang may offer direct evidence for inflation theory, according to a discovery by the BICEP2 experiment at the South Pole --

To make the find, astronomers developed a big new array of superconducting detectors for a telescope at the South Pole, which spotted characteristic patterns in ancient light left over from the Big Bang.

Producer/Director Brian Stillman brought some classic Star Wars toys to Space.com to talk about how this phenomenon changed movie merchandising forever, the subject of his documentary 'Plastic Galaxy'.

When I wrote the article this morning about the new evidence for cosmic inflation, I was in a hurry because it was breaking news. The post was getting pretty long, and I had to leave something out that I think is quite a...

The ground communication terminal for the Brazil/United States communication link via the Relay satellite which was launched late in 1962.

The Nobel laureate talks about the apparent detection of gravitational wave signatures in the cosmic microwave background radiation, as well as what it was like to spot the CMB in 1964, putting the Big Bang theory on sol...

The sun sets behind BICEP2 (in the foreground) and the South Pole Telescope (in the background) in this stunning space wallpaper.

Few people were as thrilled with the big physics news today as physicist Andrei Linde. One of the main authors of inflation theory--the idea that the universe expanded incredibly rapidly just after... --

Today, the MESSENGER team celebrates the third anniversary of the probe's Mercury orbit insertion. On March 17, 2011 (Eastern Daylight Time), the spacecraft made history when it became the first probe to orbit the innerm...

This NASA image was acquired on October 11, 2010. It is easy to see from this true-color image why Ireland is called the Emerald Isle....

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: Every NASA supersonic wind tunnel and high speed researcher is engaged in finding ways to lower the level of sonic booms.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the Big Bang.

Andrei Linde, a professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford University, is one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory, that the universe underwent a brief but remarkably accelerated expansion imme...

A Proton successfully launched two telecommunications satellites for RSCC.

To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 24th year in orbit, astronomers set their sights on NGC 2174, the Monkey Head Nebula. Young stars are sculpting gas and dust of this Orion constellation nebula.

(Phys.org) --Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the Big Bang. In the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentiall...

This is big news: Astronomers have announced that they have seen, for the first time, direct evidence of "inflation" in the extremely early Universe, unlocking an entire chapter in the history of the cosmos. It also ties...

On March 17, 2014 scientists announced the first direct detection of the cosmic inflation behind the rapid expansion of the universe just a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. Gravitation...

A new discovery reveals much about the expansion of the early universe by studying gravitational waves.

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Kimberly Arcand at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory blog.

"SPECTACULAR REALIZATION," young physicist named Alan Guth wrote late one night in 1979across the top of the page drawing a double box around it marking his discovery of what might have made the universe bang to begin wi...