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Have Cosmologists Lost Their Minds in the Multiverse? (Op-Ed)

The NASA's Hubble Space Telescope focused in the image above on a single variable star that in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. V1 is a special class of pulsating star called a Cepheid variable that can be us...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover will depart the science waypoint where it drilled into a rock last week.

Three members of the House Science Committee have sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden asking him to explain the current state of the partnership in light of recent comments made by a senior Russian officia...

Observers in Australia and New Zealand had a special treat this week: watching Saturn disappear behind the Moon during an event called an occultation. (You can read all the details of how and why this happens here in our...

Orbcomm said its current, first-generation constellation has a service gap of several hours per day.

An exoplanet that orbits its star at a whopping distance of 2,000 times the sun-Earth distance -- taking 80,000 (Earth) years to complete one orbit -- has been discovered. As far as exoplanets go, that's the most extreme...

The near-Earth asteroid 2014 JG55 missed our planet by just 60,000 miles (96,560 kilometers), or about one-quarter of the distance between Earth and the moon. The flyby marked the third-closest asteroid near miss of 2014...

A new study finds in an increase in lightning strikes after large solar winds. The findings suggest that particles from the sun may interact with the atmosphere to make lightning more likely.

(Phys.org) --The target of ESA's Rosetta mission has started to reveal its true personality as a comet, its dusty veil clearly developing over the last six weeks.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Short movie trailer for MMS mission; 4 identical spacecraft that will orbit around Earth through the dynamic magnetic system surrounding our planet to study a little-understood phenome...

Astronaut John Glenn inspects artwork to be painted on his Mercury spacecraft.

(Phys.org) --Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot--a swirling storm feature larger than Earth--is shrinking. This downsizing, which is changing the shape of the spot from an oval into a circle, has been known about since t...

New images from Rosetta show that an 800-mile-long cloud of dust, known as a coma, has sprouted from the core of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta's captured this coma in a series of photos taken between March...

Finally, a new drill site! For the first time in nearly a year, Curiosity has put drill bit to rock and acquired a new sample of Martian material for her analytical instruments to chew on. Scientific data collection at W...

When a white dwarf passes in front of its binary star system companion every 88 days, it acts like a lens to make the larger star appear brighter to us.   --

When a white dwarf passes in front of its binary star system companion every 88 days, it acts like a lens to make the larger star appear brighter to us.   --

The Russian government has boosted the budget of its Federal Space Agency by $52 billion to modernize and expand its existing infrastructure and capabilities by 2020.

The U.S. Air Force is discussing the possibility of building at least two more WGS communications satellites with funding from potential international partners.

Far across the solar system, the Rosetta spacecraft is on its way to rendezvous with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It'll arrive this summer and start mapping the ice ball in detail, and then, in November, it will ...

Earlier this year we reported that amateur astronomers had observed and photographed the recent shrinking of Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope concur: “Recent Hubble S...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot -- the most powerful storm in the solar system -- is at its smallest observed size yet, and scientists aren't sure why.