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Thanks to advances in a niche field called paleobiochemistry, researchers in the last decade have started to "resurrect" ancient proteins. Studying these proteins' properties is offering us glimpses of what life was like...

Three astronauts of the International Space Station Expedition 41 crew will conduct two spacewalks outside the orbiting laboratory Tuesday, Oct. 7 and Wednesday, Oct. 15 to replace a failed power regulator and relocate a...

Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases: Researchers have made a major breakthrough in our understanding of a 2D material, molybdenum disulphide, a key ingredient used in industrial refinery cat...

If you like planetary nebulas, you’re in luck. Multimedia artist Judy Schmidt has put together an amazing collection of 100 of these colorful glowing shells of gas and plasma, all at apparent size relative to one anoth...

(Phys.org) --NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a large hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan. The feature covers an area of about 100 square miles (260 square kilometers) i...

Astrophotographer Adam Woodworth took this image from the Raven's Nest cliffs in Acadia National Park in Maine.

After sunset this evening, look 15 degrees up from the southwest horizon. There you'll see a crescent moon, 30 percent illuminated. Hovering almost directly below it will be Mars, which looks like a moderately bright yel...

On Nov. 12, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe will try to drop a robotic lander onto the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. No spacecraft has ever attempted a soft landing on a comet before.

India's first spacecraft to visit Mars has beamed home its greatest photo of the Red Planet yet, a spectacular view that reveals the planet from pole to pole.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Scientists using airborne radar recently mapped bedrock beneath glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica.

Volz will become assistant administrator for NOAA's Satellite and Information Service.

The strange feature that appeared on the shoreline of Titan's Ligeia Mare sea was imaged by NASA's Cassini probe in July 2013 and again in August 2014.

Survival tip: don't hang around machines that have giant spinning blades. It's a lesson bats have been slow to learn, judging by the large numbers of their corpses found beneath wind turbines. New video footage suggests ...

Three days after flashing five images of the Martian atmosphere, India's maiden spacecraft to Mars jump-started its main science mission.

Engineers took another step forward in preparations for the first test flight of NASA's new Orion spacecraft in December....

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a large hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan....

Yesterday I talked about millisecond pulsars, and the way in which they might gain such rapid rotation. Another property of millisecond pulsars is that they demonstrate very clearly that pulsars are neutron stars. It all...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a large hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan.

Holy. Ares! THAT is a full-disk image of Mars taken by India's Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM. It was just released this morning and shows nearly an entire hemisphere of the planet. It's gorgeous. There's so much to see! N...

This Envisat image captures Asia's diverse topography, altitude and climate with the snow-sprinkled Himalayan Mountains marking the barrier between the peaks of the Tibetan Plateau (top) in Central Asia and the plains of...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: On Sept. 30, 2014, a sounding rocket will fly up into the sky -- past Earth's atmosphere that obscures certain wavelengths of light from the sun -- for a 15-minute journey to study wha...

Thank you K1 PanSTARRS for hanging in there! Some comets crumble and fade away. Others linger a few months and move on. But after looping across the night sky for more than a year, this one is nowhere near quitting. Matt...