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(Lomonosov Moscow State University) The Lomonosov Moscow State University astronomers who created a global network of robotelescopes MASTER detected that a bright star TYC 2505-672-1 has actually faded significantly. Tha...

A year ago, Pluto was just a bright speck in the cameras of NASA's approaching New Horizons spacecraft, not much different than its appearances in telescopes since Clyde Tombaugh discovered the then-ninth planet in 1930.

Since the 1990s, scientists have been aware that for the past several billion years, the Universe has been expanding at an accelerated rate. They have further hypothesized that some form of invisible energy must be respo...

Soar over Pluto’s seas, mountains, craters and volcanoes of ice in this montage of images released by NASA from the New Horizons encounter with the dwarf planet. Check out this article for... --

The New Horizons team is releasing their first set of five research papers on Pluto and its moons. What the team is calling a "comprehensive set of papers" is the result of the New Horizons spacecraft's close encounter w...

Two comets that will safely fly past Earth later this month may have more in common than their intriguingly similar orbits. They may be twins of a sort.

Astronomers have spotted an extrasolar planet about 117 light-years from earth that boasts the most eccentric orbit yet seen, detecting a signal of reflected light from the planet known as HD 20782 -- a "flash" of starli...

In what was likely one of his last appearances before Congress, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden defended his agency's 2017 budget request against now-familiar criticism regarding spending levels and priorities. SpaceNe...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Paul, one of our WSH regular panelists, will be talking about Song of the Stars, a project he is leading that brings astronomy to life us...

Led by San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane, a team of researchers has spotted an extrasolar planet about 117 light-years from earth that boasts the most eccentric orbit yet seen.

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The Soyuz rocket that will carry three new crew members to the International Space Station Friday evening stands ready for launch in Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, the orbiting trio awaiting reinforcements is busy with medical s...

NASA’s New Horizons mission has delivered a treasure trove of data from the dwarf planet --

In a recent guest column for the SpaceNews magazine, ULA CEO Tory Bruno wrote that characterizing the company's EELV Launch Capability contract as an $800 million subsidy "for doing nothing" reveals a fundamental lack of...

Just because a snake can't kill you doesn't mean it's slow on the draw. New research shows that harmless snakes strike just as quickly as venomous vipers do. The snakes hurl themselves at their targets so quickly, in fac...

Launches of liquid-fueled rockets may be relatively routine today, but 90 years ago, they were brand-new. In fact, the first liquid-fueled rocket launched on March 16, 1926, under the direction of rocketry pioneer Robert...

When the New Horizons spacecraft made its flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, there was worldwide celebration that we'd finally gotten our first detailed look at this completely new type of planet in the outer reaches of ou...

Space Biologist Thora Halstead has left the planet....

"We have found a previously unrecognized class of spiral galaxies that are as luminous and massive as the biggest, brightest galaxies we know of," said Patrick Ogle, an astrophysicist at the Infrared Processing and Analy...

On 14 March, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli lander were lofted into orbit by a Proton rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, starting a seven-month journey to the Red Planet.

There are hundreds of satellites visible to the naked eye. Here's how you can find one.

Launching in late 2016, the sample return Osiris-REx mission will study the asteroid Bennu. Massachusetts Institute of Technology students are building the REgolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) instrument.