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(Phys.org)--Globular clusters have for a long time been considered as formed of stars with similar initial chemical composition, but recently, increasing evidence has emerged regarding their more complex nature. On Apr. ...

At least, that was what the results of a recent study conducted by the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus suggest. After examining a group of test mice that spent two weeks in space aboard STS-135 - the fin...

The second Sentinel-1 satellite - Sentinel-1B - was launched today to provide more 'radar vision' for Europe's environmental Copernicus program....

Sentinel-1B lifted off on a Soyuz rocket together with three Fly Your Satellite! CubeSats and the CNES Microscope satellite

As executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Rick Ambrose has worked to position the company to win its share of government and commercial business, taking a particularly keen interest as the Defense Dep...

NASA Breaking News:

European Space Agency astronaut used an International Space Station treadmill to march 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) to the “finish line” --

The House Armed Services Committee is set to take up an authorization bill this week that would insist the Pentagon invest in a new main stage engine -- not an upper stage engine, strap-on motors or launch vehicles as th...

Following an anomaly observed during the countdown for the launch of Soyuz flight VS14 carrying Sentinel-1B, the countdown on 24 April was halted. 

The elegant simplicity of NGC 4111, seen here in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, hides a more violent history than you might think....

On April 20, 2016, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired these images of the Rocky Mount fire in Virginia....

Aloha! I'm pleased to announce registration is open for Science Luau 2016, a five-day vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii, with a special bonus: SCIENCE. My wife and I run a company called Science Getaways, where we tak...

A British astronaut set a world record, off the world, for the fastest marathon in orbit.

Astrophotographer A. Garrett Evans took this image of the Milky Way on March 12, 2016 at Sandy Point Beach in Stockton Springs, Maine.

"Fossil evidence suggests that life began very early in Earth's history and that has led people to determine that life might be quite common in the universe because it happened so quickly here, but the knowledge about li...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Science experiments designed by pupils from the Mission Discovery Programme held at King's College London in 2013 and 2014 have been launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, on a journey to t...

Sometimes geologists have it easy. In astronomy, you can have two stars right next to each other, maybe even born in the same cluster, but you can't be sure they're the same age, or which one is older than the other. Dif...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Today: European Modular Cultivation System (EMCS) Rotor Based Life Support System (RBLSS) Module and Water Reservoir Installation....

The legendary physicist visits a friend and shares a message about Passover and  voyaging to the stars --

The familiar star Spica (Alpha Virginis) is the fifteenth brightest star in the night sky, in part because it is relatively nearby, only about 250 light-years away. It is easy to find by following the arc of the Big Dipp...