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A new study by NASA the National Snow and Ice Data Center indicates that the Arctic "melt season"--the time of the year when temperatures are warm enough for ice to melt--is getting longer all the time. There's a lot of ...

(Phys.org) --Faced with the challenge of capturing tumbling satellites to clear key orbits, ESA is considering turning to an ancient terrestrial technology: the harpoon.

(Phys.org) --Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have been working on a device that may one day explore the underside of ice on Europa, Jupiter's moon. NASA completed an early prototype of the rover it h...

Recent observations from the largest solar telescope on Earth reveal a never-before-seen look at fine structures on the sun.

EMBARGOED until 00:01 BST, Wednesday, 25 June. The first images taken by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) after the survey began in August 2013 have revealed a rare, 'superluminous' supernova that erupted in a galaxy 7.8 bil...

With debate over NASA's long-term strategy for sending humans to Mars set to continue this week in a June 25 hearing of the House Science Committee, NASA scored an opportunistic first word here June 23 with a soft-launch...

USN will design, build and operate a Ka-band military gateway station for Inmarsat's Global Xpress satellite constellation under a contract worth more than $12 million.

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet in the star Gliese 832's "habitable zone" -- the just-right range of distances that could allow liquid water to exist on a world's surface. The planet, known as Gliese 832c, lies ...

Surrounding the sun is a vast atmosphere of solar particles, through which magnetic fields swarm, solar flares erupt, and gigantic columns of material rise, fall and jostle each other around. Now, using NASA's Solar Terr...

Surrounding the sun is a vast atmosphere of solar particles, through which magnetic fields swarm, solar flares erupt, and gigantic columns of material rise, fall and jostle each other around. Now, using NASA's Solar Terr...

Space may appear empty--a soundless vacuum, but it's not an absolute void. It flows with electric activity that is not visible to our eyes. NASA is developing plans to send humans to an asteroid, and wants to know more a...

The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a contract modification worth $1.86 billion to complete construction of the fifth and sixth SBIRS satellites.

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The discovery of three closely orbiting supermassive black holes in a galaxy more than four billion light years away could help astronomers in the search for gravitational waves: the 'ripples in spacetime' predicted by E...

The space agency aims to loft its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test vehicle Saturday from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. The launch window opens at 2:15 p.m. EDT; you can watch all the ac...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: From June 16 through June 23 a series of thunderstorms dropped large amounts of rainfall on the Upper Midwest that caused flooding and spawned tornadoes.

"The equal start hypothesis of Alexander Popoff in his book The Hidden Alpha suggests that all civilizations started at about the same time. If we assume that for some reason the space civilizations in our Universe start...

Did you see the crescent Moon near a bright star on Tuesday morning this week? Many of our Flickr group astrophotographers captured gorgeous shots of the two together in the sky, including this eye-candy image from Alan ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Space flows with electric activity that is not visible to our eyes. NASA is developing plans to send humans to an asteroid, and wants to know more about the electrical environment expl...

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy: Tight system of black holes in a distant galaxy

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's LDSD project plans to fly its rocket-powered, saucer-shaped landing technology test vehicle into near-space from Kauai, Hawaii, this weekend.

Mysterious light at the center of the milky way could be our first look at dark particles --