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They had titles such as FIDO, RETRO and FLIGHT, and the calls they made led to one of, if not the most amazing achievements in all of human history. And yet, 50 years later, their names, roles and stories remain largely ...

Ever since a study suggested that a "Planet Nine" could be lurking in the outskirts of our solar system, astronomers have been busy trying to pin it down.

The European Space Agency has combined new animations with existing footage to deliver this narrated tour of the orbiting lab. The football field-sized station travels at ~17,150 mph (27,609 kph) and an altitude of ~249 ...

Astronomers have found a plethora of planets around nearby stars. And it appears that Earth-sized planets in habitable zones are probably common.

The 100 candidates on the shortlist to establish a human colony on the planet Mars are to undergo tests as part of a new phase of the selection process, the project organisers said Monday.

NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected two minority serving institutions for cooperative agreement awards totaling approximately $1 million to help strengthen science, technology, ...

Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Harvard University have developed a new algorithm that could help astronomers produce the first image of a black hole.

The new research, conducted by leading scientists at the University of Sheffield, has revealed how branched DNA molecules are removed from the iconic double-helical structure -a process which scientists have been looking...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA astronaut Jeff Williams opened the hatch leading to the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) for the first time today (June 6) at 4:47 a.m. EDT (0847 GMT), NASA officials said.

Galaxies "waste" large amounts of heavy elements generated by star formation by ejecting them up to a million light years away into their surrounding halos and deep space, according to a new study led by the University o...

A large section of Pluto's icy surface is continually renewed by a process called convection that replace older ices with fresher material. Combining computer models with topographic and compositional data gathered by NA...

A few days ago I got into an interesting conversation on Twitter. As I posted Monday morning, NASA released a pretty amazing image, a mosaic of Pluto taken by the New Horizons spacecraft when it flew past the tiny world ...

Space station astronauts opened the world's first inflatable space habitat Monday and floated inside.

Ready for some astro-pareidolia? This week, we look no further than Earth's Moon, which reaches 1st Quarter phase this coming Sunday. The Moon reaches First Quarter phase for lunation 1156 (which dates synodic cycles of ...

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center:

Galaxies "waste" large amounts of heavy elements generated by star formation by ejecting them up to a million light years away into their surrounding halos and deep space, according to a new study led by the University o...

Space Science Image of the Week: Planck's view of a giant loop of microwaves that defies easy explanation

The British novelist Martin Amis once said we are about five Einsteins away from explaining the universe's existence. We took a step closer this past January, when a century after they were proposed in Einstein's theory ...

"Previously, we thought that these heavier elements would be recycled in to future generations of stars and contribute to building planetary systems," said Benjamin Oppenheimer, a research associate in the Center for Ast...

I know, that image above doesn't look like much, does it? But go ahead, click it. I dare you. Because I took the original 1,000 x 15,000 pixel image, rotated it, and shrank it to fit the width of the blog. It's a jaw-dro...

Blazars are galaxies whose central, supermassive black holes are accreting material from surrounding regions. Although black hole accretion happens in many galaxies and situations, in the case of a blazar the infalling m...