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Approximately two million years ago a star exploded in a supernova close to our solar system: Its traces can still be found today in the form of an iron isotope found on the ocean floor. Now scientists at the Technical U...

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system. The research, led by a team of Cassini scientists primarily from Europe, is published this week in the ...

Discovering more about the nature of neutrino oscillations gives important insights into the subatomic world and the evolution of the universe. "We know that two of the neutrinos are similar in mass, and that a third has...

Tim Peake: I love this picture taken just before sunset - looks more like a movie scene than planet Earth Larger image...

The U.S. Air Force is using a little-discussed satellite that launched in 2014 as part of ongoing experiments that look at how the Defense Department and intelligence community would act during a war in space. SpaceNews....

The successful qualification of the second stage of Rocket Lab's Electron rocket keeps the small launch vehicle on track to carry out a series of test flights later this year, the company announced April 13. SpaceNews.co...

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Jupiter's moon Europa is under a constant gravitational assault. As it orbits, Europa's icy surface heaves and falls with the pull of Jupiter's gravity, creating enough heat, scientists think, to support a global ocean b...

The U.S. government policy prohibiting even the most banal U.S.-built widget from being launched aboard Chinese rockets may seem like yesterday's news in Washington, but it is still a live issue in Europe. SpaceNews.com

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Subtle distortions hidden in ALMA's stunning image of the gravitational lens SDP.81 are telltale signs that a dwarf dark galaxy is lurking in the halo of a much larger galaxy nearly 4 billion light-years away....

"These new results from NANOGrav have the most important astrophysical implications yet," said Scott Ransom, an astronomer with the NRAO in Charlottesville, Virginia. "As we improve our detection capabilities, we get clo...

"Rise of the Rocket Girls" reveals the women who were the unsung heroes of the rocket age.

Three recent news stories have come out, all dealing with exoplanets -- alien worlds -- that have something in common with Jupiter. All three stories are pretty cool, and I thought it would be fun to tell each in a sep...

Data from NASA's MAVEN mission orbiting the Red Planet supports simulations. MAVEN has been measuring ions escaping the atmosphere due to solar winds interacting with the planet.

Subtle distortions hidden in ALMA's stunning image of the gravitational lens SDP.81 are telltale signs that a dwarf dark galaxy is lurking in the halo of a much larger galaxy nearly 4 billion light-years away. This disco...

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Britain's first official spaceman, Timothy Peake, says he's ready to run the London Marathon in 1½ weeks--from 250 miles up. But he's not expecting to set a P-R, or personal record.

The ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars spacecraft are in excellent health following launch last month, with the orbiter sending back its first test image of a starry view taken en route to the Red Planet. In the weeks following lifto...