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On March 8th, 2016, Jupiter and Earth are closest, at 413 million miles, which happens every 13 months. In July, the Juno probe will enter Jovian orbit, skimming just 3100 miles from the cloud tops.

Mini-computer Astro Pi isset up aboard the International Space Station and is looking out the window....

Scientists have long been puzzled about what makes Mercury's surface so dark. The innermost planet reflects much less sunlight than the Moon, a body on which surface darkness is controlled by the abundance of iron-rich m...

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Most of the time stars hang around for billions of years. But the Universe is a big place, and anything that can go wrong, inevitably does. Today we talk about what happens when these stars come together. The outcome is ...

Ever since the MESSENGER spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury in 2011, and indeed even since Mariner 10's flyby in 1974, peculiar "dark spots" observed on the planet's surface have intrigued scientists as to their com...

We may soon look up and see a satellite brighter than the space station and even Venus gliding across the night sky if a Russian crowdfunding effort succeeds. An enthusiastic team of students from Moscow University of Me...

NASA and Honeywell are visiting the West Coast with the FMA Live! Forces in Motion show for a spring 2016 tour designed to ignite students' interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

The U.S. Air Force is asking Congress for $20 million to begin transitioning to a common ground system for satellites launching in the coming years. SpaceNews.com

The Universe is constantly expanding. It changes, creating new structures that merge. But how does our Universe evolve? Physicists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have developed a new code of numerical ...

The European Space Agency is serious about monitoring our environment. Their Copernicus Program is an ambitious, long-term effort to study our planet and understand its changing ways. The most recent addition to this pro...

Scientists have long been puzzled about what makes Mercury's surface so dark. The innermost planet reflects much less sunlight than the Moon, a body on which surface darkness is controlled by the abundance of iron-rich m...

Scientists have long been puzzled about what makes Mercury's surface so dark. The innermost planet reflects much less sunlight than the Moon, a body on which surface darkness is controlled by the abundance of iron-rich m...

Almost 40 years after it gave chase to the space shuttle Enterprise, a NASA jet is about to catch up with the prototype winged orbiter at a museum in New York City.

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This image above from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean shows a collection of limestone towers known as the "Lost City," a submarine hot-spring system (like no other yet seen within the world's oceans). Alkaline hydrotherm...

Monday's briefing begins with a report that the Air Force was warned last year by a panel of acquisition officials to throttle back on replacing the Russian rocket engine that powers its Atlas 5 workhorse. SpaceNews.com

Parts of Britain and Germany have been treated to a display of the northern lights, a colorful phenomenon that is usually only seen further north.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. In a Congress full of ironies, this is the ironiest: Smith is a full-on climate science denier, a man who thinks scient...

After spending nearly a year aboard the International Space Station -- conducting a host of biomedical and psychological research on the impacts of long-duration spaceflight on the human body, NASA's Scott Kelly and Mikh...

So far, they seem to be—but nobody really understands why  --