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Europlanet Research Infrastructure: Amateurs prepare big-picture perspective to support Juno mission Some of the world's leading amateur and professional astronomers are meeting on 12-13 May to prepare for a campaign of ...

SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:51 p.m. EDT, about 261 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, marking the end of the company's eighth contracted cargo resupply mission to the Inter...

The nonprofit Simons Foundation will fund a new observatory to search for signs of stretching in the very early universe --

A faint blue galaxy about 30 million light-years from Earth and located in the constellation Leo Minor could shed new light on conditions at the birth of the universe.

Key members of the House Armed Services Committee are pushing competing amendments that would do the same thing: let the Air Force spend a bit more on projects not directly related to building a replacement for the Russi...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured images of Comet 252P/LINEAR just after a close encounter with Earth on March 21. The close proximity to the comet offered scientists new insights on the body's nuc...

Depending on shifting definitions of what exactly is or isn't a dwarf planet, our Solar System has about half a dozen dwarf planets. They are: Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Ceres, and 2007 OR10. Even though 2007 OR10's ...

This sequence of images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows Comet 252P/LINEAR as it passed by Earth. The visit was one of the closest encounters between a comet and our planet....

When the star that created this supernova remnant exploded in 1572, it was so bright that it was visible during the day. And though he wasn't the first or only person to observe this stellar spectacle, the Danish astrono...

Scientific American's Clara Moskowitz explains things to Chris Matthews on Hardball --

A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has made the first direct detection of the source of magnetic reconnection. Analyzing data from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, scientists have observed h...

Back in 2012, Tesla Motors, Paypal and SpaceX founder Elon Musk made headlines when he announced his idea for a "fifth form of transportation". Known as the Hyperloop, the concept called for the creation of a high-speed ...

Most people do not give much thought to the Earth's magnetic field, yet it is every bit as essential to life as air, water and sunlight. The magnetic field provides an invisible, but crucial, barrier that protects Earth ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

A faint blue galaxy about 30 million light-years from Earth and located in the constellation Leo Minor could shed new light on conditions at the birth of the universe.

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The diversity, distribution and protection of orbital assets are essential attributes of resiliency that enhance the government's integrated SATCOM architecture, ensuring the government can operate in all environments, e...

To suggest that the astronauts on the space station have been "snap happy" would be an understatement of astronomical proportions -- the crew recently took the three millionth photo since the first residents began captur...

A drill designed to penetrate 1-2 m into the lunar surface is envisaged by ESA to fly to the Moon's south pole on Russia's Luna-27 lander in 2020....

Satellite fleet operator Intelsat on May 12 offered holders of three lines of its unsecured debt the chance to cash in for between $710 and $755 per $1,000 of principal, plus an early-bird premium of $20 expiring May 25,...

An enormous structure was discovered six years ago as a gamma-ray glow on the sky in the direction of the galactic center. At a time when our earliest human ancestors mastered walking upright the heart of our Milky Way g...