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At 1.40am this morning, China launched a new Space Race with the world's first quantum satellite, recently named Micius after an ancient Chinese philosopher and engineer, who, more than 2,400 years ago, proposed that lig...

NASA is offering a behind-the-scenes look Thursday, Aug. 18, at its Journey to Mars, including the test of a rocket engine that will launch the agency to the Red Planet, with live coverage on social media, NASA Televisio...

Beyond the orbit of Neptune, the farthest recognized-planet from our Sun, lies the mysteries population known as the Trans-Neptunian Object (TNOs). For years, astronomers have been discovering bodies and minor planets in...

Setting foot on a distant planet... we've all dreamed about it at one time or another. And it has been a staple of science fiction for almost a century. Engage the warp dive, spool up the FLT, open a wormhole, or jump in...

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a giant planet and a brown dwarf in a close binary system designated HD 87646. The findings, described in a paper published Aug. 11 on arXiv.org, ...

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Newly analyzed observations by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are helping researchers narrow down what mysterious dark matter may be made of.

Now available is the August 3, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speakers were Chris Sanders (AeroJet Rocketdyne), Mike Fuller (Orbital ATK), and Bob DaLee (Boeing), who discussed "NASA's ...

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) maps the universe in infrared to figure out the answer to a burning question: why is the universe accelerating in its expansion?

No evidence exists, say researchers, of a clandestine government plot to manipulate the atmosphere.

Many features on the surface of Mars hint at the presence of liquid water in the past. These range from the Valles Marineris, a 4,000 km long and 7 km deep system of canyons, to the tiny hematite spherules called "bluebe...

Public access to NASA-funded research data now is just a click away, with the launch of a new agency public access portal. The creation of the NASA-Funded Research Results portal on NASA.gov reflects the agency's ongoing...

The world's time zones and hemispheres are divided into east and west by the prime meridian at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.

Want to hear something cool? There's a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. And not just any black hole, it's a supermassive black hole with more than 4.1 million times the mass of the Sun.

(Phys.org)--A trio of researchers is suggesting that a meteorite retrieved from the surface of a frozen lake in Canada may have come from the Kuiper belt--which if true, would be the first to be so identified. In their p...

Space Station astronauts made 4 spacewalks so far to lay the groundwork for the installation, with a 5th scheduled for completion.

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is looking for an enthusiastic and bright individual to be their Administrative Officer for a period of one year. Reporting to the Office, Events & Buildings Manager this is a key sup...

(Phys.org)--Astronomers from Heidelberg University in Germany and the Observatory of Strasbourg in France have detected nine new open star clusters within 1,500 light years from the sun. The discovery, presented in a pap...

N.B. If this article sounds familiar, it should. This has been happening so frequently I just copied the post for March April May June and updated it. October. November. December. January. February. March. April. May. J...

Our planet is nestled in the center of two immense, concentric doughnuts of powerful radiation: the Van Allen radiation belts, which harbor swarms of charged particles that are trapped by Earth's magnetic field. On March...

"If true, it's revolutionary," said Jonathan Feng, professor of physics & astronomy at the University of California, Irvine."For decades, we've known of four fundamental forces: gravitation, electromagnetism, and the str...

NASA is offering a behind-the-scenes look Thursday, Aug. 18, at its Journey to Mars, including the test of a rocket engine that will launch the agency to the Red Planet, with live coverage on social media, NASA Televisio...