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Researchers using the Keck Observatory spotted four fragments of an asteroid called P/2012 F5, and also determined that it completes one rotation every 3.24 hours. The space rock is thus spinning fast enough to spontaneo...

NASA, which proposed ending the Mars Opportunity rover's mission for the second year in a row in its 2016 budget request, is still trying to figure out some way of keeping the 11-year-old vehicle operating on the surface...

The Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) that Ball Aerospace is building for South Korea's multipurpose Earth-observing Geo-Kompsat 2B satellite passed its critical design review in February. The post...

While no one yet knows what's needed to build a habitable planet, it's clear that the interplay between the sun and Earth is crucial for making our planet livable - a balance between a sun that provides energy and a plan...

Traveling through space at 30,000 miles per hour poses some risks, which is why NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons probe is wearing a bulletproof vest.

In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronomers find that galaxies like our Milky Way underwent a stellar "baby boom," churning out stars at a prodigious rate, about 30 times faster tha...

We usually think of the equinox on or around March 21 as the end of winter and the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. But these week you can see the last vestiges of the bright stars of winter arrayed just a...

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The Moon is thought to have formed from the debris of a small planet that collided with the Earth. Since the composition of other planets in the solar system differs from that of the Earth, it was expected that the Moon'...

During the American Physical Society's 2015 April Meeting, to be held April 11-14 in Baltimore, Maryland, Eun Joo Ahn from Fermilab will present data from the most extensive study yet on the composition of cosmic rays--a...

Slate, Future Tense, and Lockheed Martin hosted the forum "Giant Leap: The Race to Mars and Back" with two panels of experts talking about Mars as the next destination for human exploration....

The fireball, spotted on April 19, 2014, near the Finnish-Russian border, likely escaped from the innermost region of the asteroid belt --

In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronomers find that galaxies like our Milky Way underwent a stellar "baby boom," churning out stars at a prodigious rate, about 30 times faster tha...

NASA's Mars-studying MAVEN spacecraft notched a spaceflight milestone this week -- its 1,000th orbit of the Red Planet. MAVEN arrived at Mars in September 2014 and began its yearlong prime science mission on Nov. 16.

In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronomers find that galaxies like our Milky Way underwent a stellar "baby boom," churning out stars at a prodigious rate, about 30 times faster tha...

Now 25 years on-orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has been used to make amazing astronomical discoveries. But the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will peer into the infrared universe to unravel some of humanity's great...

When black holes tango, one massive partner spins head over heels (or in this case heels over head) until the merger is complete, said researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology in a paper published in Physical Rev...

University of Michigan scientists and students will build components of a giant camera that will map 30 million galaxies' worth of the universe in three dimensions.

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A cracking fireball that exploded over Russia last year appears to share an orbit with a huge asteroid discovered in October 2014.

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