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Mars' watery past suggests that long ago the planet had a much thicker, carbon-rich atmosphere. But new evidence suggests the atmosphere wasn't quite as thick as some models suggest.

Like most Americans, NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren have Thanksgiving (Nov. 26) off, and they'll spend the day aboard the International Space Station (ISS) watching football and enjoying a turkey-centric ...

Some of the most advanced tools for studying the universe lie embedded beneath thousands of feet of bedrock.

It can feel inappropriate celebrating the exploration of the universe while the media are saturated with grim stories about warfare, terrorism, and other forms of human suffering. The issue boils down to matters of sensi...

An international team of astrophysicists led by a Johns Hopkins University scientist has for the first time witnessed a star being swallowed by a black hole and ejecting a flare of matter moving at nearly the speed of li...

An international team of astrophysicists led by a Johns Hopkins University scientist has for the first time witnessed a star being swallowed by a black hole and ejecting a flare of matter moving at nearly the speed of li...

An international team of esearchers theorize that a new particle exists in a material known as tungsten ditelluride (WTe2), which the researchers liken to a "material universe" because it contains several particles, some...

The Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, an international large-scale experiment to study cosmic rays, will be continued until 2025 and extended to "AugerPrime". The observatory, for the project management of which Kar...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Webb telescope's images will reveal the first galaxies forming approximately 13.5 billion years ago. The telescope will also see through interstellar dust clouds to capture stars and pla...

The European Space Agency confirmed that it has accepted a science panel's recommendation that the Fluorescence Explorer satellite be the agency's next Earth Explorer environment-monitoring satellite. SpaceNews.com

There's a very long list of things I feel thankful for this holiday, far too many to actually itemize. But somewhere on that list, well above the median line, would be these goofy creatures: We moved out to the country o...

A dark, almost circular filament broke away from the sun in a gauzy, feathery swirl, on Nov. 15, 2015, in this video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. This filament eruption was followed by a second filament breaki...

German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and ESA Director Thomas Reiter joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently in her home region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the very northeast of Germany.

This curious galaxy--only known by the seemingly random jumble of letters and numbers 2MASX J16270254+4328340--has been captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope dancing the crazed dance of a galactic merger. The g...

Animations that compress 25 years of satellite images into just one second reveal the complex behaviour and flow of glaciers in the Karakoram mountain range in Asia.

ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission is a technology demonstrator that will pave the way for future spaceborne gravitational-wave observatories. It will operate about 1.5 million km from Earth towards the Sun, orbiting the firs...

The Royal Astronomical Society has given a cautious welcome to today's announcement that the science budget will be protected in real terms until 2020. In the Spending Review presented by George Osborne, the Chancellor o...

Google's Loon balloons are coming to greet the New Year. Beginning Jan. 1, 2016, Google has asked the FCC to begin flying its internet balloons over American skies.

A total solar eclipse occurs somewhere on Earth about once every year and a half, on average. But imagine if it happened every single month. For this to be the case, the moon would have to orbit Earth in the same plane i...

The president of the French space agency wants to make sure the heads of state visiting Paris understand the indispensable role of satellites in climate monitoring. SpaceNews.com

View of a food package containing cornbread dressing, a planned Thanksgiving meal item...

(Johns Hopkins University) An international team of astrophysicists has for the first time witnessed a star being swallowed by a black hole and ejecting a flare of matter moving at nearly the speed of light