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We live in a dramatic epoch of astrophysics. Breakthrough discoveries like exoplanets, gravity waves from merging black holes, or cosmic acceleration seem to arrive every decade, or even more often. But perhaps no discov...

(Rutgers University) Vanishing Arctic sea ice. Dogged weather systems over Greenland. Far-flung surface ice melting on the massive island. These dramatic trends and global sea-level rise are linked, according to a study ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA has awarded an Information Technology Services (ITS) contract to SaiTech, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, for provision of a wide range of IT services to be performed at the agency's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Lo...

The Cassini spacecraft has observed geysers erupting on Saturn's moon Enceladus since 2005, but the process that drives and sustains these eruptions has remained a mystery. Now, scientists at the University of Chicago an...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Astronomy Cast Ep. 408: Universe Cannibalism Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos. Where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know. My name is Fras...

For centuries, the solar system was viewed as a standard blueprint for planetary systems in the universe, with a star (our sun) at the center of a circular track, and a planet orbiting within each lane. Smaller, rockier ...

Lockheed Martin has built a scaled-down version of the U.S. Air Force's next-generation space surveillance system in New Jersey as a way to test hardware and software for the Space Fence, the company announced March 28. ...

190 light-years out from Earth, exoplanet HD 80606b loops very close to its parent star every 111 days; its temperature soaring - then dipping -1500°F(816° C) in less than one of its 90-hour days.

For centuries, the solar system was viewed as a standard blueprint for planetary systems in the universe, with a star (our sun) at the center of a circular track, and a planet orbiting within each lane. Smaller, rockier ...

For centuries, the solar system was viewed as a standard blueprint for planetary systems in the universe, with a star (our sun) at the center of a circular track, and a planet orbiting within each lane. Smaller, rockier ...

Via Laughing Squid and Evil Mad Scientist, I saw this fantastic video made by Jiri Zemanek from Czech Technical University; it shows patterns dancing on Easter Eggs seemingly by magic. Watch: How is this possible? I've d...

JAXA is working to restore communications with a new astronomy satellite that malfunctioned March 26, generating debris.

Lt. Gen. Jay Raymond, the Air Force's deputy chief of staff for operations, explains how the Air Force is using space in its day-to-day operations and how the use of space is evolving with emerging threats from China and...

Future of the major astronomy probe remains unclear as pieces of space debris are reported --

Understanding the ubiquitous yet mysterious substance kniown as dark matter is a prime goal of modern astrophysics. Some astronomers have speculated that dark matter might have another property besides gravity in common ...

Tim Peake @Astro_TimPeake Himalayan valley under a Full Moon As Seen From The Space Station Credits: ESA/NASA Larger image...

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, NSF's Very Large Array and India's Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope are studying MACS J0416 and MACS J0717, two sites where entire clusters of galaxies are combining.

Monday's briefing begins with ULA postponing the launch of MUOS-5 to give engineers more time to investigate last week's Atlas 5 anomaly. SpaceNews.com

Quasars can shape the evolution of their galaxies, by blasting 135-million-mph winds. Christopher Intagliata reports. --

First, off, I know: Dissecting anything Donald Trump says is like digging a hole in water. If you debunk one sentence, another one comes to fill in the hole. It's pretty clear that he'll say anything--and I do mean anyth...