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A new explanation of how gypsum forms may change the way we process this important building material, as well as allow us to interpret past water availability on other planets such as Mars. The work is reported in Nature...

Researchers have discovered a white dwarf star with an atmosphere dominated by oxygen, a type of white dwarf that has been theorized to exist but not identified to date. The finding could challenge the textbook wisdom of...

The Global Precipitation Measurement, or GPM, mission core satellite, a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, measured heavy rainfall in severe storms early on Friday, April 1, in the sou...

Not all raindrops are created equal. The size of falling raindrops depends on several factors, including where the cloud producing the drops is located on the globe and where the drops originate in the cloud. For the fir...

On a clear night, away from the bright lights of a city, you can see the smudge of the Andromeda galaxy with the naked eye. With a backyard telescope, you can take a good look at the Milky Way's sister galaxy. With power...

TW Hydrae is a special star. Located 175 light years from Earth in the constellation Hydra the Water Snake, it sits at the center of a dense disk of gas and dust that astronomers think resembles our solar system when it ...

Near the edge of the visible Universe are some of the brightest objects ever observed, known as quasars, which are believed to contain supermassive black holes of more than a billion times the mass of our Sun. Simulation...

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Images reveal what may be an Earth-like world forming around the nearby star TW Hydrae --

The gas giant's moons will take center stage during the month. The Red Planet will grow larger in telescopes as the month progresses and its the best time of year to view Mercury. Also, Lyrid meteors will rain later in t...

A yellow glow and purple Milky Way surrounds the Eastern Point Lighthouse in Maine.

A last-of-its-kind rocket stage left over from a cancelled, controversial chapter in NASA's space shuttle history is moving to Cleveland. The Centaur-G Prime stage, which was built to launch with a robotic probe in the s...

Media are invited to watch as almost 80 teams from the United States, Italy, Germany, India, Mexico, Columbia and Russia, as well as Puerto Rico, compete in NASA's annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge, April 8 -9 at ...

A shadow and wheel tracks of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity appear in this image taken by a rear hazard avoidance camera (hazcam) just after a drive on a slope above Endeavour Crater on March 22, 2016, during ...

Engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston are evaluating how crews inside a mockup of the Orion spacecraft interact with the rotational hand controller and cursor control device while inside their Modified Adva...

Carrying more than three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the International Space Station crew, the unpiloted ISS Progress 63 cargo craft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (10:23 p.m. local time in Baikonur) from the Baikon...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

The verdict is out on whether multiverses exist, and a lot of great minds are struggling with the issue.

The fate of humanity if aliens were to discover Earth with its balmy climate and bountiful resources, has long been a concern for scientists--many of whom fear the worst.

The online publication Gizmodo published an article about limited edition watched made from rocks brought back from the moon by a Russian lunar lander -- not realizing that the watches were an April Fools' Day prank.

Our week through the lens: 28 March - 1 April 2016

In the last two decades, humanity has discovered thousands of extrasolar planetary systems. Recent studies of star- and planet-formation have shown that chemistry plays a pivotal role in both shaping these systems and de...