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Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of th...

Men and women look exactly the same when ensconced in a space suit. But female physiology is different from male physiology in significant ways. And those differences create challenges when those bodies have to endure lo...

One of the biggest new mysteries in our Solar System is the purported presence of a large and distant "Planet Nine," traveling around the Sun in a twenty-thousand-year orbit far beyond Pluto. Although this far-flung worl...

A NASA-led team of scientists has developed the first-ever method for detecting the presence of different types of underground forest fungi from space, information that may help researchers predict how climate change wil...

The salt levels of oceans on distant Earth-like planets could have a major effect on their climates - according to new research from the Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

"Red dwarfs - the dim bulbs of the cosmos - have received scant attention by SETI scientists in the past," SETI Institute engineer Jon Richard said last week in a news release announcing the initiative. "That's because r...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) experiment designed to assess the surface properties and processes of near-Earth asteroids successfully flew aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle April 2.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

See images and photos of space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow's vision for private inflatable space stations.

Are you, or do you know someone who is: Between 18 and 24 years old (on or before June 10, 2016)? In good physical health? A legal resident within the 50 United States? Enrolled at a learning institution? And most import...

Images and video of Blue Origin's historic third flight with the same reusable rocket and crew capsule (unoccupied) capture the dramatic flight in gorgeous color.

An international team of researchers have found evidence of a mysterious new state of matter, first predicted 40 years ago, in a real material. This state, known as a quantum spin liquid, causes electrons - thought to be...

Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of th...

Jeff Bezos's private spaceflight company sticks another vertical landing in unmanned test --

Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of th...

"A globular cluster might be the first place in which intelligent life is identified in our galaxy," observed Rosanne DiStefano of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in January, 2016. Globular star clu...

Swarming around The Milky Way is a menagerie of smaller dwarf galaxies, the smallest of which are the relatively nearby dwarf spheroidals, which may be the leftover building blocks of galaxy formation. Further out are a ...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

Stars of different masses end their lives in different ways. While truly massive stars go out in a blaze of glory, intermediate-mass stars--those between roughly one and eight times the mass of the Sun--are somewhat quie...

The Expedition 47 crew will receive a space delivery from Russia this weekend. SpaceX is counting down to the launch of another space shipment on its Dragon space freighter scheduled for April 8 from Florida....

Engineers at Johnson Space Center in Houston are using a mockup of NASA's Orion spacecraft to evaluate how well astronauts are able to operate Orion's rotational hand controller and cursor control device, while dressed i...