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In June 1962, an Aerobee 150 sounding-rocket blasted above the Earth's atmosphere from the White Sands Missile Range in the United States of America. During its five-minute flight, the small research craft aimed to detec...

Members of Congress and former NASA officials advocated Feb. 25 for long-shot legislation that would restructure NASA's management, a move they argue would provide stability for the agency during the upcoming presidentia...

For the first time a team of scientists has tracked down the location of a fast radio burst (FRB) in an elliptical galaxy -- a huge football-shaped mass of stars., confirming that these short but spectacular flashes of r...

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A team of Spanish researchers, with the participation of the University of Granada (UGR), has accurately detected a structure in the innermost region of a quasar (small, very far objects that emit huge amounts of energy,...

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The LISA Pathfinder spacecraft successfully fields technology for future one-billion-euro mission --

After nearly a year in orbit, America's space-endurance champ, Scott Kelly, is just a few days away from returning to Earth--and he can't wait.

Last month, planetary scientists Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin of the California Institute of Technology found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer Solar System. Nicknamed...

In July 2003, Hubble helped make the astounding discovery of a planet called PSR B1620-26 b, 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter, which is located in globular cluster M4 (center of the cluster shown in the NASA/ESA Hubble Spac...

Bigelow Aerospace's vision is to provide expandable modules for the International Space Station.

For the first time a team of scientists has tracked down the location of a fast radio burst (FRB), confirming that these short but spectacular flashes of radio waves originate in the distant universe. The breakthrough, p...

This interactive data visualization shows the birth year of every human who has been to space --

The recent detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) came from two black holes, each about 30 times the mass of our sun, merging into one. Gravitational waves span...

Thursday's briefing begins with LinkedIn putting stars in the eyes of 3 million of the social network's 400 million users with a NASA-themed commercial debuting during the Academy Awards. SpaceNews.com

On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes 29 and 36 times the mass of the Sun. Such an event is expected to be d...

It's the hot new field in modern astronomy. The recent announcement of the direct detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) ushers in a new era of observational as...

Astronomers have found an interesting new world orbiting the Sun -- no, it's not Planet Nine, but it's still cool. Called 2015 KH162, it's a small(ish) object orbiting the Sun far, far past Pluto. It's not clear how big...

(Phys.org)--Radio halos are enormous regions of diffuse radio emission, usually found at the centers of galaxy clusters. Recently, an international team of astronomers has discovered such a large area of diffuse emission...

Operations image of the week: After 16 years, a recommissioned, low-resolution 'webcam' on a Cluster satellite has snapped a #selfie with Earth