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Exactly 12 Years ago this week, NASA's now famous Spirit rover touched down on the Red Planet, starting a spectacular years long campaign of then unimaginable science adventures that ended up revolutionizing our understa...

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Thursday's briefing begins with GOP presidential hopeful sharing concerns a New Hampshire voters about the U.S. space agency. SpaceNews.com

The evidence for a new geological epoch which marks the impact of human activity on the Earth is now overwhelming according to a recent paper by an international group of geoscientists. The Anthropocene, which is argued ...

Many dying stars just a little bit more massive than the sun have superpowerful magnetic fields hidden away inside that likely play an important role in how such stars change over time, scientists say.

The drone is as terrifying as it is neat.

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The early universe was a chaotic mess of gas and matter that only began to coalesce into distinct galaxies hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang. It would take several billion more years for such galaxies to a...

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Does Earth belong to the first generation of habitable planets in the universe? One astrophysicist's work suggest it's possible, although we may never know for sure.

One dozen flight mirrors are now installed on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, out of the eighteen mirror segments that make up the primary mirror. The assembly of the primary mirror is an important milestone for the W...

Much like volcanoes on Earth, a 100 mile-wide, 13,000 foot-high mountain on the cold dwarf planet sports a deep depression (35 mi. across). Its features are.

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured the best high-energy X-ray view yet of a portion of our nearest large, neighboring galaxy, Andromeda....

Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled at least 10 times the sun's mass into space....

My pal Babak Tafreshi takes wonderful pictures of the night sky, and he sent me the link to that shot above recently. Isn't it lovely? I urge you to click it to see the original, which is somewhat bigger (plus I had to c...

The U.S. Air Force expects to launch an experimental missile-warning satellite in 2018 or 2019, about two years later than the timeline service officials used last January. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's next big astronomy mission after the James Webb Space Telescope will become a formal project in February thanks to increased funding from Congress.

Data gleaned by China's Yutu rover on the Moon has identified a new type of lunar basalt, shedding insight on lunar volcanism. As noted by the state-run Xinhua news agency, the new type of basaltic rock was discovered at...

Two astronauts are preparing a pair of U.S. spacesuits to get ready for next week's spacewalk to continue the maintenance of the International Space Station. In the midst of those preparations, the six-member Expedition ...

"We had some sense of how massive and distant it was, but we weren't fully convinced," says Michael McDonald, assistant professor of physics and a member of MIT's Kavli Center for Astrophysics and Space Research. "These ...

Watch materials technology specialist Tommaso Ghidini's talk from the inaugural TEDxESA event