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NASA launched a new space-weather mission and scientists found evidence of a hydrothermal system on Saturn's ocean-bearing moon Enceladus. Here's a look at Space.com's top stories of the week.

The past couple weeks have seen a brain-sparking series of discoveries that advance the search for life beyond Earth. Enceladus is emitting burps of methane, which strongly indicate the presence of a warm ocean under its...

A software application based on an algorithm created by a NASA challenge has the potential to increase the number of new asteroid discoveries by amateur astronomers.

The space agency sends an identical twin into orbit to study the effect of zero gravity on human health --

The space agency sends an identical twin into orbit to study the effect of zero gravity on human health --

I write a lot about aurorae, the lovely and eerie glowing lights at extreme latitudes caused when subatomic particles from the Sun are channeled down into the atmosphere by Earth's magnetic field. Whenever I do I always ...

(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe) Last month, the WPI Program Committee examined five WPI centers carefully, and concluded that all centers had met the goal of the WPI program. Among the f...