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No one’s 100% certain what WT1190F is -- asteroid or rocket stage -- but we are certain it will light up like a Roman candle when it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere around 6:20 Universal Time (12:20 a.m. CST) tomorrow m...

If you've been looking for Saturn lately, you've seen it rapidly sinking towards the sun in the southwestern sky just after sunset. This week is probably your last chance to spot Saturn before it disappears into the sun'...

A star-studded groundbreaking ceremony here in the Chilean Andes Wednesday evening (Nov. 11) -- attended by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and other dignitaries -- officially ushered the $1 billion Giant Magellan Te...

OSIRIS, the scientific imaging system of ESA's Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, shows a surface with subtle, but significant color variations.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft began orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August 2014, providing the closest and most detailed look at a comet to date. Now, a team led by astronomers at the Univers...

The main-belt asteroid (493) Griseldis was probably hit by another object last March. The results were reported on November 12 at the annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Soc...

Water covers more than two-thirds of Earth's surface, but its exact origins are still something of a mystery. Scientists have long been uncertain whether water was present at the formation of the planet, or if it arrived...

One of the most recognizable constellations in the sky is Orion, the Hunter. Among Orion's best-known features is the "belt," consisting of three bright stars in a line, each of which can be seen without a telescope.

The recent boom in entrepreneurial space activity is fueling investor interest in the sector, but venture capitalists remain troubled by the number of entrepreneurs they meet who lack sound business plan. SpaceNews.com

MIT Kavli Institute:

Researchers have spotted the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar ever found -- and the rapidly spinning, ultradense stellar core is also the first pulsar of its kind ever seen outside the Milky Way.

Einstein was wrong about at least one thing: There are, in fact, "spooky actions at a distance," as now proven by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Einstein used that term to refer...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

So you may have heard of all this nontroversy about the Starbucks annual Christmas cup only being a plain red instead of having actual Christmas decorations.* This is all over social media, so I figured I'd help y'all ou...

Gemini Observatory :

The ground system for the Air Force's GPS satellites recently received a software update and security upgrade under a two-year-old contract with Lockheed Martin. SpaceNews.com

For at least the past 50 years, about half of all Earth's carbon dioxide emissions - human and natural - have been absorbed by the land and oceans. Scientists are trying to understand how much more CO2 this global carbon...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Scientists are studying the heat trapping behavior of CO2 released by land-clearing and accidental forest fires vs. factories in large urban centers. The data producing this simulation were taken during a 5-day period in...

NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2, launched in July 2014, measures global atmospheric carbon dioxide. Data from May to August 2015 were compiled to create this visualization.

Plant growth and decay on land and ocean over a 12-moth cycle can be seen in this 'average year' data set, compiled from many science imaging satellites