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Researchers from NASA and other institutions will present science results from the agency's Mars missions, New Horizons flyby of Pluto, and Dawn mission observations of the dwarf planet Ceres during the 47th Lunar and Pl...

Today marks Caroline Herschel's 266th birthday. She was an astronomer (and sister to another astronomer, William Herschel), who studied the heavens avidly. Besides breaking a lot of new ground as a woman astronomer, she ...

A consortium of U.S. international partners, led by Canada, could reach an agreement early next year to build a sixth Mobile User Objective System narrowband communications satellite, a top Lockheed Martin executive said...

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING):

Note: Video at s://youtu.be/eo4uIIQLyqM. This year's Masters is April 9-12

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog.

Two astronomy students from Leiden University have mapped the entire Milky Way Galaxy in dwarf stars for the first time. They show that there are a total of 58 billion dwarf stars, of which seven per cent reside in the.....

Nearly four billion years ago, life arose on Earth. Life appeared because our planet had a rocky surface, liquid water, and a blanketing atmosphere. But life thrived thanks to another necessary ingredient: the presence o...

United Launch Alliance sought to distance itself from remarks its vice president of engineering made Tuesday implying the Denver-based rocket builder has all but decided to use Blue Origin's BE-4 engine instead of Aeroje...

The magnetic field of Mars merged with and was overwhelmed by the magnetic field of a passing comet in October 2014. The interaction likely triggered the loss of a chunk of upper Martian atmosphere, scientists said.

"The Martian" hero Mark Watney survived all that the Red Planet threw at him, including frigid temperatures, unbreathable air and relatively high radiation levels. Here's a look at the radiation danger, which wasn't expl...

A new image depicts the sun's many magnetic field lines, which snake all around Earth's star but are densest near sunspots -- dark regions on the surface from which solar flares and huge eruptions of plasma called corona...

Nearly four billion years ago, life arose on Earth. Life appeared because our planet had a rocky surface, liquid water, and a blanketing atmosphere. But life thrived thanks to another necessary ingredient: the presence o...

When I write about climate change, the posts tend to be long, because I want to make sure there is enough background information in them so people can

NASA Breaking News:

Ground-based telescopes bolster the case for hazes emanating from Ceres's mysterious bright spots --

Violent red flashes, lasting just fractions of a second, have been observed during one of the brightest black hole outbursts in recent years. In June of 2015, NASA's Swift satellite detected a rising tide of high-energy ...

Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only such object classed as a dwarf planet. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around Ceres for more than a year and has mapped its su...

Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only such object classed as a dwarf planet. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around Ceres for more than a year and has mapped...

Google celebrated the legacy of famed German astronomer Caroline Herschel, the first woman ever to discover a comet, today (March 16) with an animated Google doodle gift for her 266th birthday.

Much of the research taking place onboard the International Space Station helps doctors improve health for citizens on Earth and astronauts living in space. Other station experiments help engineers design smarter materia...