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Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti, Dina Maron and Seth Fletcher talk about the info they picked up at the just-concluded annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... --

Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti, Dina Maron and Seth Fletcher talk about the info they picked up at the just concluded annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... --

Have you seen them? There's been a quintet of good reasons to awaken early this past week, as the February dawn sky hosts all five classical planets, very nearly in order: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. For a ...

After delivering more than 7,000 pounds of cargo to support dozens of science experiments from around the world, Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo spacecraft is set to leave the International Space Station Friday, Feb. 19. NASA...

Europe's Sentinel-3A Earth observation satellite on Feb. 16 was successfully placed into low Earth orbit aboard a German-Russian Rockot launch vehicle operating from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. SpaceNews....

"If the presence of hydrogen cyanide and other molecules is confirmed in a few years time by the next generation of infrared telescopes, it would support the theory that this planet is indeed carbon rich and a very exoti...

From ESA's control centre, watch the replay of the 16 February event to celebrate the launch of the first satellite for the Sentinel-3

The third ESA-developed satellite carrying four Earth-observing instruments was launched today, ready to provide a 'bigger picture' for Europe's Copernicus environment programme.

For the first time astronomers were able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class known as super-Earths. Using data gathered with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and new analysis techniques, the exoplan...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Using Hubble Space Telescope data and a new analysis technique, astronomers have successfully detected the atmospheric composition of exoplanet 55 Cancri e. It's a dry atmosphere mainly consisting of hydrogen and helium.

The galaxy above is seen at a time when the Universe was 15% of its current age, only 2.4 billion years after Big Bang. The light has taken over twice the age of the Earth to reach us (11.4 billion...

"There is a vast world of microbes out there that don't want to live in our zoos," quips Edward DeLong, a microbial ecologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. The microorganisms' refusal to grow...

ESA's LISA Pathfinder has released both of its gold-platinum cubes, and will shortly begin its demanding science mission, placing these test masses in the most precise freefall ever obtained to demonstrate technologies f...

Hubble Space Telescope News:

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

In-flight WiFi provider Gogo Inc.'s stock was down 30 percent early Feb. 16 on news that American Airlines had filed suit to reject its Gogo contract because competitor ViaSat can offer better performance. SpaceNews.com

With a blinding flash of light and the thunder of 220,000 pounds of thrust pushing the Ariane 5 ECA rocket off the launch pad Wednesday at Guiana Space Center, Intelsat 29e began the final leg of its mission to usher in ...

(Phys.org)--Giant exoplanets, like the so-called 'hot Jupiters' that are similar in characteristics to the solar system's biggest planet and orbit very close to their host stars, are excellent targets for astronomers in ...

Comets are weird. They're similar to asteroids--chunks of very old material orbiting the Sun, rough-hewn and in many ways primordial--but while asteroids are usually mostly rock or metal, comets have minuscule amounts of...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has snapped 1 photo every 12 seconds at multiple wavelengths since early 2010. Shown here, at 171 angstroms the year of Jan. 1, 2015, to Jan. 28, 2016.

Today: Veg-01 Plant Harvest: Kelly harvested, cleaned and dried the Zinnia plants grown for the Veg-01 experiment. This investigation is used to assess on-orbit function and performance of the Veggie facility, focusing o...