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A largely unrecognized field called photonics may provide solutions to some of NASA's most pressing challenges in future spaceflight....

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ESA astronauts Luca Parmitano and Pedro Duque, together with Eurocom Matthias Maurer are starting the second phase of their ESA 'Pangaea' planetary geological field training on a landscape very similar to Mars at Geoparq...

Many deep space probes have essentially entered hospice care  --

At a joint meeting in Pasadena, California last week, European and American scientists were treated to some of the latest findings about Saturn's moon Titan. The post Seasonal Change On Titan Is Dynamic Business appeared...

NASA¹s New Horizons mission plumbs complex interplay between the dwarf planet's surface and its sky --

The main post-Pluto flyby target of New Horizons is an ancient object called 2014 MU69. The spacecraft will approach it in the fall of 2018, and complete its closest approach around New Year's, passing less than 2,000 mi...

NASA’s rebooted mission, K2, seeks out new worlds closely orbiting stars smaller than the Sun --

Trump senior policy advisers Robert Walker and Peter Navarro say a Trump administration would "lead the way on emerging technologies that have the potential to revolutionize warfare," such as constellations of micro-sate...

China's latest astronauts to launch to space have landed on a series of new stamps and related postal souvenirs celebrating their on-going mission. Shenzhou 11 crewmates Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong are featured on the com...

Previously, the Kepler space telescope looked straight out from the solar system in a direction almost perpendicular to the ecliptic and the plane of the planets. This way, it could observe the same spot all year long, a...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has given more details about his plan to colonize Mars.

Expedition 49 Flight Engineers Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Kate Rubins of NASA successfully captured Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft with the station's robotic arm at 7:28 a.m. EDT....

Galaxy Rotation Negates Dark Matter --"If There's a Single Observation That We Might Have Something Essentially Wrong, This is It" StarTalk Radio With Neil deGrasse Tyson & Michio Kaku --"The Physics and Fantasy of Time ...

A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers joined forces to discover an unusual hunting ground for exoplanets. They found a star surrounded by the oldest known circumstellar disk--a primordial ring of gas...

Every month since March 2016, I've posted an article that is almost exactly the same every time. For the nth month in a row, I've written, we've had a month that broke the temperature record historically. And even when I...

From rainfall patterns to share price performance, the usual way to analyse any data that shows something changing over a period of time is to put it into a graphic. Making data visual usually makes it much easier to und...

A very rare gravitational lensing event, set to occur in 2028, has been predicted by a team of French astronomers led by Pierre Kervella of the CNRS/Universidad de Chile. It will provide an ideal opportunity to look for ...

Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula called the Red Spider Nebula, located some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.

Despite the obvious doom and gloom associated with mass extinctions, they have a tendency to capture our imagination. After all, the sudden demise of the dinosaurs, presumably due to an asteroid strike, is quite an enthr...

The nucleus of a so-called "active" galaxy contains a massive black hole that is vigorously accreting material. As a result, the nucleus often ejects bipolar jets of rapidly moving charged particles that radiate brightly...

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher took this image of NGC 669, a "polar ring galaxy", from Guelph, Ontario on September 19, 2016.