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Anyone who has read any of my writing over the past few days/months/years knows that I may be just a tad, just a wee bit, just a scosh frustrated with one of the two political parties running my country. Or not so much r...

Astronomers searching for the galaxy's youngest planets have found compelling evidence for one unlike any other, a newborn "hot Jupiter" whose outer layers are being torn away by the star it orbits every 11 hours. "A han...

Data from NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) were used to estimate rainfall from Tropical Storm Colin over a two day period before it dissipated.

Astronomers were not entirely sure what it is. If, as they suspect, the gas ball is the result of a supernova, then it's the most powerful supernova ever seen. In June of 2015, astronomers viewed a ball of hot gas...

NASA: Kepler News and Features:

Future Martian explorers might not need to leave the Earth to prepare themselves for life on the Red Planet. The Mars Society have built an analogue research site in Utah, USA, which simulates the conditions on our neigh...

Astronomers searching for the galaxy's youngest planets have found compelling evidence for one unlike any other, a newborn "hot Jupiter" whose outer layers are being torn away by the star it orbits every 11 hours.

BEAM's hatches have been closed completing crew operations for the month. Meanwhile, a pair of spaceships is also being packed for departure this month....

After delivering almost 7,500 pounds of cargo to support dozens of science experiments from around the world, the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo spacecraft is set to leave the International Space Station Tuesday, June 14. NASA...

Launched in December 2015, LISA Pathfinder travelled to its operational orbit, 1.5 million km from earth towards the Sun, where it started its scientific mission on 1 March....

A team of scientists using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has pinpointed the amount and location of water vapor around a newly forming star with groundbreaking precision. Using data collecte...

(Phys.org)--Astronomers from the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences (IAG) in Brazil have developed a 3D model of the planetary nebula NGC 2440, describing the kinematics and morphology of this in...

Well, this doesn't happen terribly often: Scientists recently created/discovered four new elements, and the proposed names have just been announced. I won't keep you in suspense: Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 have the ...

A team of scientists using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has pinpointed the amount and location of water vapor around a newly forming star with groundbreaking precision.

Water is a hot topic in the study of exoplanets, including "hot Jupiters," whose masses are similar to that of Jupiter, but which are much closer to their parent star than Jupiter is to the sun. They can reach a...

Operations image of the week: Mission controllers use these cold-gas thrusters to keep LISA Pathfinder where it needs to be

Concordia sits on a plateau 3200 m above sea level. A place of extremes, temperatures can drop to -80°C in the winter, and the Sun does not rise above the horizon in the winter, forcing the crew to live in isolation wit...

Technology under development by a 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concept award winner aims to put a telescope directly into space, nestled inside a balloon the size of a football field.

What is twilight? Scientists have specific definitions for three types of twilight, and many people in the U.S. and Canada live in twilight through much of the summer.

What does Mars smell like? Everyone -- not just pioneering astronauts -- might be able to find out, because there could be ways to recreate whiffs of the Red Planet here on Earth.