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Tourist attractions can be pretty hokey. In the part of Canada where I'm from, one town boasts the "largest hockey stick in the world." I'm not kidding. You can see it when you drive by. But Mississippi is getting what m...

Space rock is caught in a “little dance” with our planet, and will bob around us for years to come --

In all fields of science, sometimes more is learned when you fail at what you’re trying to do than when you succeed. So what new science discoveries have failed expectations given us in astronomy? Visit the Astronomy C...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: LIGO Team Members:Kai Staats, Joe Giaime and Michael Landry Kai Staats is a filmmaker, lecturer and writer working in science outreach. He is currently completing his MSc thesis ...

No one has yet observed the first stars that formed in the Milky Way. In all likelihood, they will never be directly observed, because the first stars are massive, ending their lives only a few millions years after their...

A simulation of the powerful jets generated by supermassive black holes at the centers of the largest galaxies explains why some burst forth as bright beacons visible across the universe, while others fall apart and neve...

Earth has a small companion that NASA is calling an almost-Moon. The small asteroid, called 2016 H03, isn't quite a moon because it's actually orbiting the Sun. In its orbit around the Sun, it spends about half of its ti...

A simulation of the powerful jets generated by supermassive black holes at the centers of the largest galaxies explains why some burst forth as bright beacons visible across the universe, while others fall apart and neve...

An international team of astronomers have found that there are far more planets of the hot Jupiter type than expected in a cluster of stars called Messier 67. This surprising result was obtained using a number of telesco...

A swanky new USS Enterprise bobble will boldly go to San Diego Comic-Con this July, covered in 24-karat gold.

Space.com's Calla Cofield's enthusiasm is contagious as she explains how gravitational waves were discovered for the second time using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).

Simulation of the powerful jets generated by supermassive black holes at the centers of the largest galaxies explains why some burst forth as bright beacons visible across the universe, while others fall apart and never ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

King Jove is one hell of a planet. It's also hell for a spacecraft. --

With 14 electric motors turning propellers and all of them integrated into a uniquely-designed wing, NASA will test new propulsion technology using an experimental airplane now designated the X-57 and nicknamed "Maxwell....

With 14 electric motors turning propellers and all of them integrated into a uniquely-designed wing, NASA will test new propulsion technology using an experimental airplane now designated the X-57 and nicknamed "Maxwell....

An international team of astronomers have found that there are far more planets of the hot Jupiter type than expected in a cluster of stars called Messier 67. This surprising result was obtained using a number of telesco...

(Phys.org)--European astronomers have uncovered evidence of a small glitch in the spin of a millisecond pulsar. According to a research paper published on June 13 on arXiv.org, the pulsar, designated PSR J0613-0200, exhi...

The Earth has one satellite, right? That fact is so solid, we just call it the Moon with a capital M. But due to a trick of gravity and timing, there are other objects out in space that aren't really moons but do travel ...

Our week through the lens: 13-17 June 2016

The southern-central edge of the Tibetan Plateau near the border with western Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 1 February 2016....

The international team of physicists and astronomers responsible for the discovery of gravitational waves back in February has announced the detection of a second strong signal from the depths of space. It is further con...