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At a critical point in the life of a star like the Sun its rotation stops 'slowing down', according to research published in the journal Nature by University of Birmingham scientists today (Jan. 4, 2016). This discovery ...

Celestron's SkyProdigy 130 Newtonian Reflector can align itself to the sky using its built-in StarSense camera. Space.com's @DavidSkyBrody shows what you get and how to put it together. Read his full review: ://.space.co...

Hillary Clinton thinks Earth may have been visited by alien lifeforms already, and she intends to investigate the UFO (unidentified flying object) phenomenon, according to a recent story in New Hampshire's Conway Daily S...

2016 isn't much of a year for realistic space movies, but apocalypse, beloved legacies like "Star Wars" and "Star Trek," and romance on an interstellar stage will make for a year of epic adventure.

Welcome to 2016! The early morning sky is where the action is this first week of the year. We were out early this Monday morning as skies cleared over Central Florida on our yearly vigil for the Quadrantid meteors. Thoug...

The nation's airlines could realize more than $250 billion dollars in savings in the near future thanks to green-related technologies developed and refined by NASA's aeronautics researchers during the past six years.

Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, commander of the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center, said, "Advancements and developments such as those demonstrated by the Falcon 9 Upgrade provide the opportunity to assure our nation...

The French space agency created an outside board of inquiry to examine the circumstances surrounding the discovery of multiple leaks in the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure instrument."

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Using a recently developed technique to detect magnetic fields inside stars, a group of astronomers -- including Matteo Cantiello and Lars Bildsten from UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) -...

The mysterious disappearance of electrons in the atmosphere could be caused by meteors burning up in the sky, new research suggests.

Mountain sides of great water-ice blocks, varying from dark to light and some possibly revealing layers of Pluto crust, squeezed together to create the "al-Idrisi mountains."

Nine of the 15 most-read stories of 2015 were, in one way or another, about SpaceX. SpaceNews.com

How can life originate from a lifeless chemical soup? This question has puzzled scientists since Darwin's 'Origin of species'. University of Groningen chemistry professor Sijbren Otto studies 'chemical evolution' to see ...

A NASA camera tracked the Dec. 21st, 2015 first stage landing of the commercial spaceflight company's uprated Falcon 9 booster, a key step to lower cost, reusable operation.

Looking for something to do this year? Head on over to Universe Today and have your calendar open: They have a list of the best astronomical events that'll happen in 2016. It's a big list, and you'll need a telescope for...

See the highlights of recent research conducted on the International Space Station....

Newly released documents describe the U.S. Air Force's secret cold war project known as the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) --

The French space agency created an outside board of inquiry to examine the circumstances surrounding the discovery of multiple leaks in the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure instrument. SpaceNews.com

Strong magnetic fields discovered in majority of stars--Finding to impact understanding of stellar evolution

New work from a team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Jennifer van Saders indicates that one recently developed method for determining a star's age needs to be recalibrated for stars that are older than our Sun. This is ...