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The much-anticipated arrival of NASA's Juno spacecraft at Jupiter is almost here. Juno will answer many questions about Jupiter, but at the cost of a mission profile full of challenges. One of those challenges is communi...

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This past Monday (June 27th), the National Astronomy Meeting - which is hosted by the Royal Astronomy Society - kicked off at the University of Nottingham in the UK. As one of the largest professional conferences in Euro...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has returned data on gases and elements from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko that are essential for life and understanding how the solar system formed.

In this edition of Mobile Astronomy, we'll look at how exoplanets are discovered, whether they could host life and how you can use your astronomy app to see some of the host stars with your naked eyes or backyard telesco...

Black holes are the most powerful gravitational force in the Universe. So what could cause them to be kicked out of their host galaxies? Cambridge researchers have developed a method for detecting elusive 'black hole kic...

Bright blue auroras at Jupiter's north and south poles are putting on a veritable firework show just before the July 4 arrival of the Juno probe.

"Red dwarfs - the dim bulbs of the cosmos - have received scant attention by SETI scientists in the past," SETI Institute engineer Jon Richard said last week in a news release announcing the initiative. "That's because r...

During a news briefing from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California the science team involved with the Juno mission to Jupiter talked about the scientific goals of the mission....

NASA has awarded almost $10 million in grants to informal education organizations in seven states to help inspire the next generation of scientists and explorers.

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The next three crew members bound for the International Space Station are set to launch Wednesday, July 6. Live launch coverage will begin at 8:30 p.m. EDT on NASA Television and the agency's website.

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It will be the first spacecraft to probe deep below the planet’s thick cloud decks --

NASA's Juno probe, which is scheduled to begin orbiting Jupiter on Monday (July 4), captured a photo of the giant planet and its four biggest moons last week.

Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras -- stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere -- on the poles of the largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter. This observation program is ...

Three Expedition 48 crew members worked on a variety of science experiments today before this weekend's cargo ship maneuvers. On the ground in Kazakhstan, another set of crew members is getting ready for a two-day trip t...

Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras -- stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere -- on the poles of the largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter. This observation programme i...

Jupiter takes center stage with the arrival next week of a NASA spacecraft built to peek through its thick, swirling clouds and map the planet from the inside out.

Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras--stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere--on the poles of the largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter. This observation programme is su...

Hubble Space Telescope News:

Since Voyager 1 discovered the Jovian auroras in 1979, several observatories have captured the them in x-ray, ultraviolet and visible light. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was used to capture imagery of the auroras ...