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Mars is thought to have had a watery past, but when exactly it transitioned to its dry and dusty present is up for debate. Now, though, a team of scientists studying the marks on a young Martian crater has found signs th...

Weekly pre-flyby updates aired June 23 on NASA TV provides an overview of the New Horizons mission, the spacecraft and its suite of instruments being prepared for a July 14 flyby, and a summary of Pluto science to date.....

Astromice are helping people chart the course to Mars, and revealing that voyage's risks.

While previous research had confirmed the presence of beautiful "southern lights" on Mars, the new study predicts for the first time that the auroras of the Red Planet may be visible to the human eye.

Singer-songwriter Craig Werth has written a song called "Oh Pluto" to highlight and celebrate NASA's New Horizons mission, which will give the world its first up-close looks at the dwarf planet during a highly anticipate...

The newly observed "X-ray echo" -- the largest and brightest of its type ever caught on camera -- has allowed researchers to pin down the location of the neutron star Circinus X-1, which lies 30,700 light-years from Eart...

NASA will send an international crew to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean this summer to prepare for future deep space missions during the 14-day NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 20 expedition slated to...

Astrophotographer John Chumack (galacticimages.com) captured about 1.5 hours of aurora images on March 31st, 2015, and time-lapsed them. He used a Canon 6D DSLR with a Star Adventurer panning device.

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photo of an aurora from the International Space Station on June 23, 2015....

As GJ 436b, an exoplanet, crossed the face of its star, the Hubble Space Telescope detected a decrease in ultraviolet light as a huge cloud of hydrogen departed the doomed planet's atmosphere.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen dispersing from a warm, Neptune-sized planet orbiting a nearby star....

"Weather data policy is critical to ensure that lives are saved and property is " writes Rep. Jim Bridenstine. "For the sake of my constituents and our nation, we should consider new approaches." The post Op-ed | NOAA's ...

A Neptune-size planet with a giant plume of gas streaming behind it like a comet's tail has been discovered by astronomers, and is the first such planet ever discovered.

Last year, U.S. President Barack Obama signed off on extending the life of the International Space Station for a few more years. The Russians and Canadians have followed suit, and the Europeans and Japanese will also, pr...

ESA's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle flew an autonomous sub-orbital mission on 11 February 2015. Simple as a capsule, but with aerodynamics of a winged craft, the IXV could bring back astronauts or do other important ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen dubbed "The Behemoth" bleeding from a planet orbiting a nearby star. The enormous, comet-like feature is about 50 times the siz...

Astronomers study the elements scattered between the stars to learn about the internal workings of galaxies, their motion and chemistry. To date, however, attempts to detect the telltale radio signature of carbon in the ...

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Active galactic nuclei are the brightest objects in the universe. They are not lit up permanently, but rather 'flicker' extremely slowly. This insight helps ETH researchers better understand the influence these nuclei an...

When you look up in the sky enough, you'll see some really, really weird things.  YouTube user QuadeM13 was out riding his bike and noticed a strange light beam flashing and twisting around above a cloud. He stopped and...

A new computer simulation tracking dark matter particles in the extreme gravity of a black hole shows that strong, potentially observable gamma-ray light can be produced....

The Rosetta probe, which is currently orbiting a comet as it hurtles around the sun, has been given an extended lifetime that will likely end with the spacecraft falling down onto the surface of the comet, officials anno...