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Last fall, astronomers were surprised when the Kepler mission reported some anomalous readings from KIC 8462852 (aka. Tabby's Star). After noticing a strange and sudden drop in brightness, speculation began as to what co...

A team of researchers with NASA, Uppsala University, Columbia University and the Planetary Science Institute has created several simulations of conditions on Venus billions of years ago using Earth climate models and has...

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Friday 12 August sees the annual maximum of the Perseid meteor shower. This year, as well as the normal peak on the night of 12/13 August, meteor scientists are predicting additional enhanced activity in the shower the n...

New experimental results show a difference in the way neutrinos and antineutrinos behave, which could explain why matter persists over antimatter. The results, from the T2K experiment in Japan, show that the degree to wh...

Two astronauts called down to Mission Control today and reviewed next week's spacewalk. In the Russian segment of the International Space Station, a pair of cosmonauts replaced outdated communications gear. Crew members ...

NASA has selected six U.S. companies to help advance the Journey to Mars by developing ground prototypes and concepts for deep space habitats.

A 3-D sky-mapping project that will measure the light of millions of galaxies has received formal--approval from the U.S. Department of Energy to move forward with construction. Installation of the project, called DESI (...

What Jupiter’s spot is not, is tranquil. New infrared images taken by Boston University scientists on a NASA telescope in Hawaii show that whereas Jupiter’s north and south poles are... --

Bizarre “Tabby’s Star” shows an overall dimming trend, further confusing astronomers    --

IceCube observatory reports null result in search for particle --

Whether or not they aced it in high school, human beings are physics masters when it comes to understanding and predicting how objects in the world will behave. Cognitive scientist Jason Fischer at Johns Hopkins Universi...

As NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) celebrates four years on the Red Planet Leicester planetary scientist Professor John Bridges recounts the mission's success and explains what is next for the one-ton nuclear-powere...

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory:

The NASA astronaut is going to break the record for American days in space later this month, here are some amazing photos of his orbital mission.

A pair of researchers has added more evidence regarding the oddity of KIC 8462852, aka Tabby's Star. Benjamin Montet with the California Institute of Technology and Joshua Simon with Observatories of the Carnegie Institu...

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: testing new version of astronaut instruction manual underwater

Could there be a way to find bacterial structures on another planet? And if so, how important might these bacteria be in making a planet life-friendly?

Friday 12 August sees the annual maximum of the Perseid meteor shower. This year, as well as the normal peak on the night of 12/13 August, meteor scientists are predicting additional enhanced activity in the shower the n...

A flotilla of 50 small satellites - known as cubesats and weighing an average of two kilos each - will be launched from the International Space Station in the European-led as QB50 mission to explore the little-understood...

Now available is the July 13, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Francis Cucinotta (UNLV) who discussed "New Estimates of Space Radiation Risks are Favorable for Human Explorati...

The next generation of America's human spaceships is rapidly taking shape and "making fantastic progress" at the Kennedy Space Center as Boeing and NASA showcased the start of assembly of the first flightworthy version o...