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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.

Peering deep into the early universe, this picturesque parallel field observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals thousands of colorful galaxies swimming in the inky blackness of space. A few foreground ...

New research has led to a warning from a leading Antarctic expert that the world is on track for massive sea level rises resulting from the melting of an ice sheet. The research has revealed that if carbon dioxide levels...

Today Cassini will observe the light of the central star in Orion's belt as it passes through Enceladus' plumes. The post Cassini Watches Star Through Enceladus’ Plume appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA’s most prolific interplanetary mission reaches a new milestone in Martian exploration --

See the highlights of recent research conducted on the International Space Station during March 2016....

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The latest self-portrait from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the car-size mobile laboratory beside a dark dune where it has been scooping and sieving samples of sand....

Sols 1273-1274: We are planning only 2 sols today because tactical operations will transition to nominal next week (working all 5 weekdays). On Sol 1273, Mastcam will acquire a multispectral image of the contact between ...

On Thursday, March 10, 2016 astronauts on the International Space Station logged their 1,000th educational contact with the ground. NASA astronaut Tim Kopra answered questions posed by the North Dakota Space Grant Consor...

The next robotic mission to Mars has rolled out to the launchpad ahead of its planned Monday (March 14) liftoff.

The greatest discoveries require more than knowledge, they demand persistence.

Video showing the rocket carrying the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft being rolled out to the launch pad

In the Autumn of 2014, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft arrived at Mars and entered into orbit. MAVEN wasn't the only visitor to arrive at Mars at that time though, as comet Siding Spring ...

It was late August 2013, and the group of about five employees at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, was waiting for NASA's Kepler space telescope to reveal whether it would live or die. A severe malfunction had robbed...

Today, March 10th, an official announcement was made about the updating of the ESFRI (Forum for a European Strategy in Research Inrastructures) route map at a meeting in Amsterdam. This route map includes the EST (Europe...

Cam instrument on the Subaru Telescope has discovered about 80 young galaxies that existed in the early universe about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. The team, with members from Ehime University, Nagoya University...

Astronomers have used the ALMA and IRAM telescopes to make the first direct measurement of the temperature of the large dust grains in the outer parts of a planet-forming disc around a young star. By applying a novel tec...

For such a tiny planet, Mercury is a pretty big puzzle for researchers. NASA's MESSENGER probe already has revealed that the planet is surprisingly rich in elements that easily evaporate from the surface, such as sulphur...

Frozen methane caps the tallest peaks in a 260-mile-long (420 kilometers) mountain range in the southeastern part of Pluto's Cthulhu region, a dark-red area bigger than the state of Alaska, a newly released photo shows.

Peering deep into the early universe, this picturesque parallel field observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals thousands of colorful galaxies swimming in the inky blackness of space. A few foreground ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: