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(Phys.org)--The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird's-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-doo...

A tiny, self-contained greenhouse has been selected to fly on the robotic lander that Red Planet colonization effort Mars One intends to launch in 2018, group representatives announced today (Jan. 5).

The feature documentary on NASA mathematician and painter Ed Belbruno, who developed a new method to space travel that reduces fuel consumption, will premiere in New York City on Friday Jan. 16th, 2015 at the Philip K. D...

SpaceX will try to bring the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back to Earth for a precision landing on a floating platform Tuesday morning. But there's no guarantee the ambitious maneuver will work.

The famous feature of the Eagle Nebula has been revisited by the space telescope. It has delivered an incredible infrared light image to go along with new visible light imagery.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way about 26,000 light years from Earth.

Eight newfound alien planets appear to orbit in their parent stars' habitable zone -- that just-right range of distances that may allow liquid water to exist on a world's surface -- and all of them are relatively small, ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of 51 Peg b, the first exoplanet detected around a Sun-like star. And although the number of sheer detections in the years since have been remarkable, it's also remarkable how little ...

CNES signed the first of a planned three contracts for the U.S.-French Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a mission in which the two governments plan to invest some $1.1 billion for a launch in 2020. Th...

Stunning exoplanet images and spectra from the first year of science operations with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) were featured today in a press conference at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS...

How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA's Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date has offered scientists an assortment of more than...

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft finds two worlds that have sizes and orbits similar to ours   --

With only an introductory course in science, it's easy to think that scientists strictly follow the scientific method. They propose a new hypothesis, test that hypothesis, and after many years of hard work, either confir...

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered its 1,000th alien planet, further cementing the mission's status as a space-science legend. Kepler has found more than half of all known exoplanets to date, and the numbers wi...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Astronomers announced today that they have found eight new planets in the "Goldilocks" zone of their stars, orbiting at a distance where liquid water can exist on the planet's...

Astronomers are discovering exoplanets--worlds orbiting other stars--all the time, but eight new ones recently found are more exciting: They are roughly the size of Earth, and all orbit in their stars' habitable zones (t...

Astronomers announced today that they have found eight new planets in the "Goldilocks" zone of their stars, orbiting at a distance where liquid water can exist on the planet's surface. This doubles the number of small pl...

Today: Haptics-1: Wilmore set up Haptics-1 equipment on rack front seat tracks in the Columbus for the execution of experiment protocols in a Vest (body mount) configuration....

Perimeter Institute: Times Comes First: Cortês and Smolin Win Cosmology PrizeTuesday Jan 06, 2015 Perimeter Faculty member Lee Smolin and his collaborator, Marina Cortês, were awarded the inaugural Buchalter Cosmology ...

Captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2013 an outburst 400X brighter is the highest energy event observed so far from our galaxy's central black hole. In October 2014, a smaller flare 200X brighter than normal was...

An actuator that was "behaving strangely" on the SpaceX Falcon 9's upper stage caused a last minute scrub for Tuesday’s attempt to launch a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, as well as the first try at...

At a time when our earliest human ancestors had recently mastered walking upright, the heart of our Milky Way galaxy underwent a titanic eruption, driving gases and other material outward at 2 million miles per hour....