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Last week's announcement that Gravitational Waves (GW) have been detected for the first time--as a result of the merger of two black holes--is huge news. But now a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) originating from the same place, a...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have measured the rotation rate of an extreme exoplanet by observing the varied brightness in its atmosphere. This is the first measurement of the rotation of a massive exo...

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is using a high-risk acquisition approach to bolster its number of ground-based interceptors and counter growing threats from North Korea, according to a new report from the Government Acc...

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at the University of Arizona have taken the first direct, time-resolved images of an exoplanet. Their results were published today in The Astrophysical Journal.

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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have measured the rotation rate of an extreme exoplanet by observing the varied brightness in its atmosphere. This is the first measurement of the rotation of a massive exo...

NASA engineers Neerav Shah and Phil Calhoun will realize a long-held ambition later this year when a Space-X launch vehicle deploys two tiny satellites that will fly in a precise formation to create, in effect, a single ...

After years of preparatory studies, NASA is formally starting an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe--the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).

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"The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) has the potential to open our eyes to the wonders of the universe, much the same way Hubble has," said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA's Sc...

Travel to distant alien worlds with two suns, red grass and strong gravity in these awesome retro space tourism travel posters produced by artists working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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.

If you think of them at all, you probably think of asteroids and comets as two distinct classes of objects. Asteroids are rocky and/or metallic, while comets are more icy and have fuzzy heads and long tails. But nature i...

NASA officially is beginning work on an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe -- the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)....

The discovery of dark matter, argued Carlos Frenk, Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology, at Durham University's world-renowned theoretical cosmology research group, at the annual meeting of the American ...

After years of preparatory studies, NASA is formally starting an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe -- the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).

NASA's one-year astronaut Scott Kelly will host a two-hour special on Third Rock Radio today (Feb. 18) to spin tunes and discuss his yearlong space mission. Here's how to listen at 5 p.m. ET.

The third ESA-developed satellite carrying four Earth-observing instruments has been launched and is ready to provide a 'bigger picture' for Europe's Copernicus environment program....

Learn how Rosetta-inspired technology was deployed to detect bed bugs inside hotel rooms in this TEDxESA talk by researcher and entrepreneur Geraint 'Taff' Morgan

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: a salute to the bedrest participants who volunteer to spend 60 days in bed for science

Massive binary star systems with highly luminous and hot Wolf-Rayet stars and massive (tens solar masses) OB companion generate strong stellar winds. Its percussion may lead to producing a fierce photon flux with an ener...

Thursday's briefing begin with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner crew capsule going for a dip in the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA's Langley Research Center. SpaceNews.com