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Watch as fiery solar material crashes back to the surface in this high-res video of the June 7, 2011 eruption. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this explosive event.

Sand dunes cover much of this terrain, which has large boulders lying on flat areas between the dunes....

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, has successfully tested a key technology needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting gravitational waves. These ...

NASA’s interplanetary probe is cruising toward an encounter with our local gas giant this summer. As the data starts flowing in, we may also learn about Jupiter’s many cousins across the... --

Our Earth consists of silicate rocks and an iron core with a thin veneer of water and life. But the first potentially habitable worlds to form might have been very different. New research suggests that planet formation i...

Our Earth consists of silicate rocks and an iron core with a thin veneer of water and life. But the first potentially habitable worlds to form might have been very different. New research suggests that planet formation i...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the technology needed to build a space-based gravitational wave observatory....

In May of 2015, an international team of astronomers led by Yale University and the University of California-Santa Cruz observed a primordial galaxy that pushes back the cosmic frontier of galaxy exploration to a time wh...

Astronomers using the OISTER telescope consortium in Japan have uncovered new information about the origin of 'extraordinary supernovae' explosions, which are brighter than normal ones....

Mars One -- the private venture that formed to send people on a one-way trip to the Red Planet -- is getting ready to whittle down its astronaut hopefuls from 100 people to just 40.

New computer simulations from the Georgia Institute of Technology provide a conclusive test for a hypothesis of why the center of the Milky Way appears to be filled with young stars but has very few old ones. According t...

Astrophysicists from the University of Birmingham have captured the sounds of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, according to research published today in the Royal Astronomical Society journal Monthly...

Astronomers using the OISTER telescope consortium in Japan have uncovered new information about the origin of 'extraordinary supernovae' explosions, which are brighter than normal ones. This new information will help imp...

Supermassive black holes are a bit of a problem. Well, some of them power the most luminous objects in the Universe, spewing out high-energy radiation and matter at close to the speed of light, probably sterilizing all o...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

(Phys.org)--A giant "hot Jupiter" exoplanet has recently been detected by an international team of astronomers led by Kaloyan Penev of Princeton University. The newly found alien world, designated HATS-18b, is an interes...

There is something strange happening in the local universe, with galaxies moving away from each other faster than expected.

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module's (BEAM) hatch was opened up for the first time today. Astronaut Jeff Williams entered BEAM and checked sensors, installed air ducts and reported back to Earth that it was in pristi...

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand, to study the Southern Hemisphere's skies June 6.