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A complex network of isolated hills, ridges and small basins spanning 1400 km on Mars is thought to hide large quantities of water-ice.

The magnetic field that covers the sun and determines its behavior -the eleven year cycles no less than such conspicuous phenomena as solar spots and solar storms- also has another side to it: a magnetic web that covers ...

Research by New York University Biology Professor Michael Rampino concludes that Earth's infrequent but predictable path around and through our Galaxy's disc may have a direct and significant effect on geological and bio...

With three complicated spacewalks planned in the coming days, NASA is rushing to resolve a spacesuit problem linked to a 2013 emergency when water dangerously flooded a European astronaut's helmet.

New Mexico lawmakers on Thursday debated the merits of Spaceport America and whether its futuristic hangar, its nearly 2-mile-long runway and the 18,000 acres that surround it will offer a return on taxpayers' nearly qua...

Hypotheses to explain the clouds include aurorae, dust from a volcanic eruption or water or CO2 ice particles --

Hypotheses to explain the clouds include aurorae, dust from a volcanic eruption and water or CO2 ice particles --

A dim red dwarf and its brown-dwarf companion likely grazed the outer edges of the solar system 70,000 years ago in what scientists say was the closest encounter ever between our sun and another star.

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and ESA's (European Space Agency) XMM-Newton telescope are showing that fierce winds from a supermassive black hole blow outward in all directions--a phenomenon that ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and ESA's (European Space Agency) XMM-Newton telescope are showing that fierce winds from a supermassive black hol...

On Feb. 14th, 2015, the European probe flew about 4 miles (6 km) above the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasemenko and delivered stunning imagery. It will continue to make several maneuvers to fly close to the comet o...

Should we beam messages into deep space, announcing our presence to any extraterrestrial civilizations that might be out there? Or, should we just listen? Since the beginnings of the modern Search for Extraterrestrial In...

Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris....

A hungry black hole has belched up a bubble of cosmic wind that could eliminate the rest of its meal and change the landscape of the entire galaxy, according to new observations.

As the sun skims through the galaxy, it flings out charged particles in a stream of plasma called the solar wind. The solar wind creates a bubble, known as the heliosphere, which extends far outside the solar system. For...

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: Get larger image formats Over a decade before planets were found orbiting normal stars, the astronomy world was intrigued by the discovery of a vast, edge-on, pancake-flat d...

The traditional Chinese month-keeping is based on lunar cycles periodically offset to sync with solar events to form a 'lunisolar' calendar, this year represented by a horned farm animal. But which one depends upon who y...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA's Terra satellite passed over central and eastern Australia early on Feb. 19 and two images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer were combined to show two tropic...

The webcast, which is hosted by the nonprofit Kavli Foundation and begins at 4 pm EST, explores the universe of "Interstellar" and investigates how accurately the ideas of physicist Stephen Hawking were portrayed in "The...

Today's Google doodle rings in the Chinese New Year, an event that is determined by the cycles of the moon.

As the sun skims through the galaxy, it flings out charged particles in a stream of plasma called the solar wind, and the solar wind creates a bubble extending far outside the solar system known as the heliosphere. For d...

Designing, building and operating Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories (LIGO) is tedious and exacting. These out-takes from "LIGO Generations" (film) show keeping a sense of humor is an essential element...