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Stephen Hawking, Frank Drake and dozens of journalists gathered at the Royal Society in London last week to hear astronomers announce a ground-breaking new project to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life called "...

A Hungarian-US team of astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts - and hence galaxies - 5 billion light years across. The scientists, led by...

Stephen Hawking, Frank Drake and dozens of journalists gathered at the Royal Society in London last week to hear astronomers announce a ground-breaking new project to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life called "...

After an accidental fire in December ripped apart The Mars Society's greenhouse at a facility in rural Utah, the group is asking the public to help raise money for a new one.

The largest and most powerful hurricanes ever recorded on Earth spanned over 1,000 miles across with winds gusting up to around 200 mph....

Native Hawaiian groups are protesting construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea during a gathering of scientists in Honolulu --

An icy moon of Saturn has mysterious red arcs of material crisscrossing its surface -- and no one knows exactly how they got there.

Six people spent two-thirds of a year in the HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) analog pretending to be Martian astronauts. Here's a look inside the science, work and fun they had during their time ...

The night sky is an endless source of amazing sights, but this one is extra rare. NASA photographer Bill Ingalls captured an incredible view of the ISS passing in front of the moon.

As NASA gears up for the launch of its next great space telescope in 2018, a model-making team is asking for help to create miniature versions of the huge observatory for public outreach.

The U.S. and Canadian companies approach the flurry of activity in the past year -- new Earth observation constellations announced, existing players merging -- from different angles. The post Geospatial Giants DigitalGlo...

Swiss rocket-component builder Ruag is opening a production line at customer United Launch Alliance's Alabama facility to replace capacity in Switzerland used to build parts for ULA's Atlas 5 rocket and to prepare for UL...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous events in the universe, releasing as much energy in a few seconds as the Sun does over its 10 billion year lifetime. They are thought to be the result of massive stars collap...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime-Cam prime-focus camera recently observed the nearby large spiral galaxy M81, together with its two brightest neighbors, M82 and NGC3077. The results of their observa...

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On July 15, 2015, the European Space Agency launched the fourth Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-4) satellite into orbit. This advanced Earth-observing bird will monitor our planet in a number of ways, including taking ve...

Two and a half years after an expedition led by the CEO of Amazon.com raised them off the seafloor, the historic rocket engine parts that launched NASA astronauts on at least three missions to land on the moon are now pr...

On July 28, 2015, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured images of algal blooms around the Great Lakes, visible as swirls of green in this image of Lake St. Clair and in western Lake Erie.....

A 21-foot-long articulate robotic arm has landed at Marshall Space Flight Center to create parts for the Space Launch System rocket.

A super-dense star formed in the aftermath of a supernova explosion is shooting out powerful jets of material into space, research suggests....

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