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The new images depict the dark Bagnold Dunes, which Curiosity has been studying for about 6 weeks in history's first up-close investigation of extraterrestrial sand dunes.

A new three-year NASA field expedition gets underway this year that will use advanced instruments on airplanes and in the water to survey more of the world's coral reefs in far greater detail than has ever been assessed ...

Once life gets started in dense stellar groups, it could quickly go interstellar, thanks to old stars and close neighbors.

A surprisingly light supermassive black hole may have shed pounds thanks to a galaxy-merger crash diet, astronomers say.

Alien life, if it exists, could be as simple as bacteria or more complex than humans—and there are optimal stragegies for searching for both --

NASA has awarded a contract to Jacobs Technology of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to provide support for testing, operations and maintenance of ground-based aerospace facilities at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Fi...

NASA has awarded a contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of McLean, Virginia, to provide all services necessary to operate the NASA Enterprise Applications Competency Center (NEACC).

Startup satellite Internet service provider OneWeb has leased 6,000 square feet of office space outside Washington, in what company founder Greg Wyler said was one of several facilities to be established as OneWeb prepar...

Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They're densely packed, holding a million stars in a ball only about 100 light-years across on average. They're old, dating back almost to the birth of the Mi...

California Institute of Technology:

Flickering burst of visible light were recorded over a 3.5 hour period, as gas and dust were violently torn apart in the region surrounding the black hole V404 Cyg.

All you need is a 20 cm telescope to observe a nearby, active black hole.

SETI Institute:

During the course of making the Crash Course Astronomy series, our animators at Thought Café and I put together a fun poster of the solar system with little factoids about the various members of our Sun's family. Buildi...

Astronomers are finding dozens of the fastest stars in our galaxy with the help of images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE....

Virgin Galactic's The Spaceship Company is currently building a second SpaceShipTwo vehicle in Mojave, California. See photos of the new private spaceship for space tourism and more here.

"A globular cluster might be the first place in which intelligent life is identified in our galaxy," says Rosanne DiStefano of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Globular star clusters are extraordina...

On March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies to find planets around other stars within a field of view 1/400th the size of the Milky Way in search of potentially habitable worlds. Since t...

Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They're densely packed, holding a million stars in a ball only about 100 light-years across on average. They're old, dating back almost to the birth of the Mi...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

A team of researchers led by Eric Schlegel, Vaughn Family Endowed Professor in Physics at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has discovered a powerful galactic blast produced by a giant black hole about 26 mi...

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