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On March 14, the ExoMars mission successfully lifted off on a 7-month journey to the planet Mars but not without a little surprise. The Breeze-M upper booster stage, designed to give the craft its final kick toward Mars,...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - This week's Atlas V rocket launch of a Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS) apparently experienced a first stage engine anomaly during the climb to space that required a l...

This feature appears to be a frozen, former lake of liquid nitrogen, located in a mountain range just north of Pluto's informally named Sputnik Planum....

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests:This week, we welcome Andrew Helton and Ryan Hamilton, member of the SOFIA Telescope Team. Andrew is the Instrument Scientist for the Faint Object infraRed CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope...

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On March 22, Comet P/2016 BA14 (Pan-STARRS) flew just 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers) from Earth, making it the third closest comet ever recorded. The last time a comet appeared on our doorstep was in 1770, wh...

On March 22, Comet P/2016 BA14 (Pan-STARRS) flew just 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers) from Earth, making it the third closest comet ever recorded. The last time a comet appeared on our doorstep was in 1770, wh...

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A new shipment of science, spacewalk gear and crew supplies is on its way to the International Space Station. The Expedition 47 crew is preparing for its arrival while continuing research and maintenance operations onboa...

Comet LINEAR (formally designated 252P) is coming into the Northern Hemisphere's view shortly. Its arrival has skywatchers excited because the comet is 100 times brighter than expected.

Mysterious branch-like formations in clusters of rock show what microbial life once looked like.

Saturn's famous rings and some of its icy moons may have formed only about 100 million years ago -- after most of the dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a new study suggests.

At first glance, this cosmic kaleidoscope of purple, blue and pink offers a strikingly beautiful and serene snapshot of the cosmos....

The director general of ESA, Johann-Dietrich Woerner, believes that the world should collaborate to create a permanent lunar base for "science, business, tourism or even mining."

The total solar eclipse of moves through its phases in this collage taken by astrophotographer Justin Ng from Palu, Indonesia on March 9, 2016.

Tuesday evening, March 22, turned into 'streaks galore' on Florida's space coast, as the nighttime launch of an Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo freighter atop an Atlas V rocket was captured in unforgettable fashion by talented ...

Our week through the lens: 21-25 March 2016

The search for exoplanets, worlds orbiting stars other than our own, has become a major field of research in the last decade - with nearly 2,000 such planets discovered to date. So the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn ...

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers from the U.S., China, and Japan has developed a computer simulation of the sun that is able to show both large and small scale processes. In their paper published in the journal Science,...

Mars is seriously pretty. That shot, taken by the HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a towering cone-shaped hill in a sand dune field. First of all, just take a moment to think about that. This is a phot...

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