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A sensing technique that the U.S. military currently uses to remotely monitor the air to detect potentially life-threatening chemicals, toxins, and pathogens has inspired a new NASA technology that could "sniff" for life...

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope:

The Cassini probe has found more features on Titan that resemble Earth, steep river valleys that empty into its largest methane lake The post Even Though it’s an Alien World, Titan’s Canyons Would Look Very Familiar ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) team successfully opened a "failsafe" door on the Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument in lunar orbit, improving the quality of ultraviolet (UV) data it collects. The door, ...

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It's impossible not to see that this election has become hyperpartisan; a split so wide the gulf seems unbridgeable. How can someone like me--a socially progressive nontheist--ever even hope to be able to communicate the...

Technology image of the week: friction stir welding used to make a titanium propellant tank for space

A museum led and supported by spaceflight pioneers and former space program workers now has a new name that better reflects its mission. The Space Walk of Fame Museum, founded in Titusville, Florida in 2001, has been ren...

A sensing technique that the U.S. military currently uses to remotely monitor the air to detect potentially life-threatening chemicals, toxins, and pathogens has inspired a new instrument that could "sniff" for life on M...

The oldest light in the Universe, known as the cosmic microwave background, is now available to be 3D printed for study. Dr. Dave Clements, a co-author of the study "Cosmic sculpture: a new way to visualize the cosmic mi...

Opposition from native Hawaiians may relocate the next-generation Thirty Meter Telescope to Spain's Canary Islands --

The space tourism company Virgin Galactic took to the air with its VSS Unity space plane today (Nov. 1) to attempt the craft's first glide flight.

NASA has revealed storms on HD 189733b rain glass at seven times the speed of sound and temperatures hit 5,400°F. Glass particles in the atmosphere give it a dazzling blue color. "To the human eye, this far-off planet l...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Just 7 light-years away from the Sun--practically in our laps in galactic terms--lies an amazing object. Called WISE 0855, it's not really a star, because it is far too low in mass to ignite nuclear fusion in its core. T...

Like the hero of the 1984 space opera, ordinary folks sometimes have extraordinary gifts that can be put to use—in this case, in service of discovery --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

From SDO's point of view, the sun appears to be shaking slightly - but not because the solar observatory was spooked by this near-Halloween sight.

Satellite communications network service provider SpeedCast of Hong Kong on Nov. 1 said it would purchase competitor Harris CapRock in an all-cash transaction valued at $425 million. SpaceNews.com

If you're trying to make the case that Saturn is the most beautiful planet in the solar system, this new photo could be Exhibit A.

The alien planet HD 189733b is a beautiful blue dot in a sea of inky blackness, just like Earth. But that's where the similarities between the two worlds end.