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EMBARGOED until 00:01 BST, Tuesday 24 June 2014 British cosmologists are puzzled: they predict that the Universe should not have lasted for more than a second. This startling conclusion is the result of combining the lat...

As we’ve noted before, astronaut Reid Wiseman is sending out a bevy of tweets and pictures from his perch on board the International Space Station, but this recent image got our attention. “Can't explain it, just loo...

The electrically charged gas falls from the Sun's corona to the surface. The 'coronal rain' was captured by Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST).

"Suppose we have the Earth without the human population on it. Imagine two persons, one equiped with a whistle and the other equiped with a radio transmitter. One of them is in the middle of Africa and the other in...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite spotted a spike of X-ray emission coming from more than 70 galaxy clusters. The X-rays could be generated by the decay of one type of ...

A newly formed international center will study satellite collisions and the countless issues regarding what to do about the menacing growth of orbital debris.

An Arizona company said Tuesday it has successfully completed the first small-scale test flight of a high-altitude balloon and capsule being developed to let tourists float 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the earth.

The solar array that will provide power to NOAA's GOES-R satellite has been tested, approved and shipped to a facility where it will be incorporated on the spacecraft. The five sections of the solar array come together a...

The Big Bear Solar Observatory has delivered high definition views of a sunspot. The data will be used to unravel mysteries presented by these dark and concentrated magnetic fields.

Satellite fleet operators and teleport owners hope Ultra HD TV will follow the HDTV growth model and not fall into the niche status of 3-D television.

It's well accepted that moons form after planets. In fact, only a few months ago, astronomers spotted a new moon forming deep within Saturn's rings, 4.5 billion years after the planet initially formed. But new research s...

Could a strange X-ray signal coming from the Perseus galaxy cluster be a hint of the elusive dark matter in our Universe? Using archival data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the XMM-Newton mission, astronomers fou...

Social media will be gateway for young people to participate in a mission to Mars. Small "CubeSats" with digital payloads envisioned for mission to the Red Planet

How do you feed a six-person crew on a three-year mission to Mars? Food scientists are working on this and other challenges related to creating and optimizing food for astronauts, soldiers, pilots and other individuals w...

(Phys.org) --A mysterious X-ray signal has been found in a detailed study of galaxy clusters using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton. One intriguing possibility is that the X-rays are produced by the ...

Using the AKARI orbiting observatory, astronomers from the Open University have made the first large-scale maps of icy material where stars are forming. In a challenge to conventional ideas about the formation of water i...

NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project plans to fly its rocket-powered, saucer-shaped landing technology test vehicle into near-space from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai,...

NASA is launching two challenges to give the public an opportunity to create innovative ways to use data from the agency's Earth science satellites.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is examining a rocky, windswept ridge where aluminum in a clay mineral was mapped from orbit.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Ten years ago, eight antennas on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, united to form a telescope unlike any other.

Royal Astronomical Society: Using the AKARI orbiting observatory, astronomers from the Open University have made the first large-scale maps of icy material where stars are forming. In a challenge to conventional ideas ab...

World View, an Arizona-based private spaceflight company that wants to take adventurers to the stratosphere using high-altitude balloons, announced that is has successfully completed a test of its scaled-down flight syst...