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First Results from the KiDS Survey (montage). Credit: Kilo-Degree Survey Collaboration/A. Tudorica & C. Heymans/ESO. Click for a full-size image New images of deep space are helping to shed light on dark matter, the invi...

The moon doesn't have the winds, rivers or plate tectonics capable of erasing these marks of ancient impacts.

A new model of the Sun's solar cycle is producing unprecedentedly accurate predictions of irregularities within the Sun's 11-year heartbeat. The model draws on dynamo effects in two layers of the Sun, one close to the su...

Two of NASA's heliophysics missions can now claim planetary science on their list of scientific findings. A group of scientists used the Venus transit - a very rare event where a planet passes between Earth and the sun, ...

In a collision of cosmic proportions, a new video show two chunks of material smashed together inside a jet emanating from a monster black hole. The event was captured in a time lapse video taken by the Hubble Space Tele...

What looks like a shooting target is actually an image of nested rings of X-ray light centered on an erupting black hole. On June 15, NASA's Swift satellite detected the start of a new outburst from V404 Cygni, where a b...

Learn more about NASA's New Horizons mission, which will perform history's first flyby of the Pluto system on July 14, 2015.

What looks like a shooting target is actually an image of nested rings of X-ray light centered on an erupting black hole. On June 15, NASA's Swift satellite detected the start of a new outburst from V404 Cygni, where a b...

A new NASA study of ocean temperature measurements shows in recent years extra heat from greenhouse gases has been trapped in the waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans....

The U.S. Air Force has asked Congress to reprogram $100 million in 2015 funding to launch the final satellite in the service's legacy weather satellite program, just weeks after the House and Senate recommended permanent...

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk says data collected during the June 28 explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket is "difficult to interpret," and that the cause of the explosion is not yet understood.

Black holes can be found at the centres of most galaxies. Most have little mass compared with their host galaxy. ETH researchers, however, have discovered a particularly massive black hole, which clearly grew so quickly ...

Orbital ATK has won a $23.6 million contract to launch a small space-surveillance satellite for the Air Force's Operationally Responsive Space Office aboard a Minotaur 4 rocket in 2017. The post U.S. Air Force's ORS-5 Sa...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

A newfound giant black hole nearly as massive as 7 billion suns is dozens of times larger than astronomers expected given its host galaxy's size, researchers say. The finding may call most current models of galaxy format...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery of galaxy ESO 381-12 (a.k.a. PGC 4287) may show the after effects of a galactic merger. Telltale 'shells' of gas and dust could be results of "shock waves through its structure much like ri...

Black holes can be found at the centres of most galaxies. Most have little mass compared with their host galaxy. ETH researchers, however, have discovered a particularly massive black hole, which clearly grew so quickly ...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford said the protection of the military's satellites should be a higher national security priority. The post Six Space Questions the Senate Asked Gen. James Dunford appeared first on Spa...

NASA has named its first commercial crew 'cadre' -- the four astronauts who will train to fly aboard the first test flights of Boeing's CST-100 and SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. The space agency assigned Bob Behnken, Eric ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA has selected four astronauts to train and prepare for commercial spaceflights that will return American launches to U.S. soil and further open up low-Earth orbit transportation to the private sector.