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The timing of explosive eruptions of vapor and ice on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus could provide new insights into the satellite's interior structure, which could be a home to life.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is on track to sweep past Pluto next week despite hitting a "speed bump" that temporarily halted science collection.

A segmented mirror four or five times wider than Hubble's would peer directly at exoplanets --

Despite some hair-raising and unplanned 4th of July fireworks of sorts in deep space which caused NASA's Pluto bound New Horizons spacecraft to enter "safe mode" due to a computer glitch and temporarily halt all science ...

Despite its cold waters and harsh winds, the North Sea is a fertile basin for phytoplankton blooms....

The smoke that is billowing from the wildfires currently plaguing Canada have taken the jet stream express into the United States....

New Horizons team members submitted the names generated by the "Our Pluto" campaign to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) today (July 7), one week before the probe makes history's first flyby of the faraway dwarf...

They are three words that, after next week, will never be used to describe Pluto again, and they are about to witness their own expiration: "Not yet explored." The phrase appears on a 1991 29-cent U.S. stamp flying on Ne...

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 X-rays light up the surface of our Sun in a bouquet of colors in this new image containing data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. The high-energy X-rays seen by NuSTAR are shown in green and...

For Alan Stern, the wait is almost over. On July 14, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, after a journey spanning nearly a decade, will fly past Pluto at 50,000 kilometers per hour, becoming the first spacecraft to make a cl...

The ongoing investigation into the June 28 Falcon 9 launch failure has yet to find a cause for the accident based on the available data, SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said July 7. The post Musk: No Clear Explanation Y...

The Integral, Fermi and Swift space observatories have used the magnifying power of a cosmic lens to explore the inner regions of a supermassive black hole. Gamma rays are highly energetic radiation emitted by some of th...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity faces ongoing wheel wear and tear as it continues its trek across the rock-strewn red planet. The post Mars Rover Curiosity Dealing with Wheel Damage appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

Elon Musk says the Falcon 9 explosion was a 'huge blow to SpaceX' and admitted that his engineers are still dumbfounded as to the cause of the June 28 accident.

Cosmic microwave radiation points to invisible 'dark matter', marking the spot where jets of material travel at near light speed, according to an international team of astronomers. Lead author Rupert Allison of Oxford U...

Astronomers at the Open University have discovered the first quintuple star system containing two eclipsing binary stars. Details of the five star system, the first of its kind to be found, will be presented by Marcus Lo...

As we approach the 8th anniversary of the Galaxy Zoo project, it is a great opportunity to look back at one of the most fascinating discoveries of citizen science in Galaxy Zoo - the "Green Pea" galaxies. Volunteers on t...

Blue Origin continues to have the upper hand in a competition with Aerojet Rocketdyne to build a new engine for United Launch Alliance's next-generation rocket, ULA chief executive Tory Bruno said. The post BE-4 Engine R...

After closing its $4.75 billion acquisition of Exelis, Harris Corp. announced July 1 a reorganization of its business units, a change that gives new responsibilities to two senior executives. The post Gattle Has Top Spac...