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

On July 20, 1976, the Viking 1 Lander became the first spacecraft to safely touch down on the surface of Mars. brought Mars to life and set the stage for years of Martian exploration.

Efforts to explain a strange cold spot in the cosmos have led to the discovery of something even odder: a vast area with very little matter --

MIT physicists have found that subatomic particles called neutrinos can be in superposition, without individual identities, when traveling hundreds of miles. Their results, to be published later this month in Physical Re...

Two astronomers -- with the help of Twitter -- have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that an enormous X-shaped structure made of stars lies within the central bulge of the Milky Way Galaxy.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Traveling about 250 miles over Chile near the city of Santiago, the unpiloted ISS Progress 64 Russian cargo ship docked at 8:20 p.m. EDT to the Pirs Docking Compartment of the International Space Station....

Square Kilometer Array: The Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest radio telescope when built and which has its headquarters at Jodrell Bank near Manchester, will be heavily featured as part of the EuroScience Open ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was commanded to roll 360 degrees on one axis. The maneuver was performed in 7 hours and time-lapsed here. It's done to take 'precise measurements of the solar limb' according to t...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA has selected five U.S. aerospace companies to conduct concept studies for a potential future Mars orbiter mission. Such a mission would continue key capabilities including telecommunications and global high-resoluti...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Two astronomers--with the help of Twitter--have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that an enormous X-shaped structure made of stars lies within the central bulge of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Finding and characterizing dozens of Earth-like planets will require a super-stable space telescope whose optical components move or distort no more than a few picometers--a measurement smaller than the size of an atom. ...

Several prominent scientists, including Stephen Hawking, have cautioned against humanity broadcasting our presence to intelligent life on other planets. Other civilizations might try to find Earth-like planets using the ...

Researchers working with Wojciech Hajdas at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a detector called POLAR. This instrument is expected to search out and investigate so-called gamma ray bursts coming from the dep...

(Phys.org)--A team of Spanish astronomers has recently observed a newly discovered asteroid designated P/2016 G1 (PANSTARRS), revealing its activity and measuring its total dust loss. The findings, detailing the most pro...

7,500 years ago, a massive star exploded. It had lived a short life, comparatively, running through its nuclear fuel of hydrogen, helium, carbon, neon, oxygen, silicon; each element fusing faster in turn in a sprint to t...

One is likely 10 percent warmer than Earth, the other six percent cooler --

Astronomers are searching for a possible ninth planet beyond Pluto's orbit.

The full moon of July will rise tonight (July 19), bringing us a lunar charm commonly known as the Full Buck Moon. But it has many other names.