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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRise imager has delivered detailed high resolution imagery since taking settling into orbit in March 2006.

The real-life "Death Star" that astronomers recently caught in the act of destroying a planetary building block is continuing to disintegrate orbiting objects. This finding could shed light on how dead stars rip apart th...

On March 8, 2016 (March 9 local time) the Moon briefly blocked the light from the Sun in what was the only total solar eclipse of the year. The event was visible across portions of southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Micrones...

New Horizons:

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

Just weeks before the historic encounter of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) with Mars in October 2014, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft entered orbit around the Red Planet. To protect sens...

SETI Institute:

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's bare-knuckled attack on satellite operators' refusal to share Ka-band spectrum with future 5G terrestrial mobile providers ripped through the Satellite 2016 conference here li...

Hooray for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter! Ten years of ground-breaking science (and eye candy.) The post MRO: Ten Years Of Breathtaking Work Above Mars appeared first on Universe Today.

March 11, 2016 marks five years since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster. In the last five years, researchers all over the world have been conducting substantial studies to find out the effect on the envi...

On a second American record-breaking mission for 2016, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station at 5:26 p.m. EDT Friday, March 18, with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Sk...

NASA has selected two proposals for new Earth science investigations that will put new instruments in low-Earth orbit to track harmful particulate air pollutants and study the development of tropical cyclones.

If you read the comments of any global warming blog post I write--and I don't recommend it, unless pain is something you enjoy--you see a lot of people have a very, very fundamental misunderstanding of how global warming...

A group of NASA scientists recently fielded questions from the public about how a long trip to Mars could physically and mentally impact astronauts, and how the One-Year Mission can help make them safer.

A recent observational campaign involving more than two dozen optical telescopes and NASA's space based SWIFT X-ray telescope allowed a team of astronomers to measure very accurately the rotational rate of one of the mos...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed in unprecedented detail a planet that held diverse wet environments billions of years ago and remains dynamic today....

Since the 17th century, science was intrigued by the nature of light. Isaac Newton was certain that it consists of a stream of particles. His contemporary Christiaan Huygens, however, argued that light is a wave. Modern ...

Europe's Ariane 5 rocket on March 8 successfully placed the Eutelsat 65 West A multi-band telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit, in the vehicle's 71st consecutive success, its second of 2016.

n 8-9 March 2016, a solar eclipse took place over the Pacific Ocean....

Liquid Robotics, the pioneer of wave and solar powered ocean robots, today announced that its fleets of Wave Gliders have reached 1 million nautical miles at sea -- an important milestone for the unmanned surface vehicle...

A one-of-a-kind opportunity gave NASA scientists an intimate view of the havoc that a comet's passing wreaked on the magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, around Mars. The effect was temporary but profound. "Comet Sidi...