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Water has been showing up in all sorts of unexpected places in our Solar System, such as the Moon, Mercury and Saturn's moon Ganymede. Add one more place to the list: Asteroid 16 Psyche. This metal-rich asteroid may have...

"Mount St. Helens is pretty unusual," said Steve Hansen, about the volcano responsible for the deadliest eruption in US history, which appears to be stealing its fire from somewhere else. Hansen, a geoscientist at the Un...

NASA will host a teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, Nov. 7, to preview several Earth science missions using small satellites heading into space, starting this year, to help us better understand our home planet.

Today: Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) Maintenance: The crew performed a half water dump and fill on EMU 3006 feedwater tanks and a full water dump and refill of EMUs 3003 and 3010 feeedwater tanks. These activities s...

Reduced extracellular transport of molecules may explain changes in bacterial behavior in space, according to a study published November 2, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Luis Zea from the University of Colo...

Deep in an outer spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy, some 1,480 light-years from Earth, a star (KIC 8462852, but informally called "Tabby's Star" or "Boyajian's Star") is acting in ways the world's astronomy community ha...

Astronomers using the super-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have found the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving only the smalle...

Buzz Aldrin wants to put his history-making self-portrait on your body. Aldrin's non-profit has debuted a new t-shirt featuring the #FirstSelfieInSpace.

For the first time, a certain type of solar wave was caught surfing from the sun's surface up through the star's atmosphere, lending insight into how the sun's material moves and mixes.

In retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's new book, "The Darkest Dark" (Little, Brown and Co., 2016), a young Chris struggles with the alien-filled shadows of his bedroom the night before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Ald...

Saturn, Venus and the Moon will be close in the southwest sky after sunset. Jupiter and the moon will be near each other in the before dawn skies as well. Also, three meteor showers (Taurid, Leonid, Orionid) are on tap t...

Engineers and technicians working on the James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed the first important optical measurement of Webb's fully assembled primary mirror, called a Center of Curvature test.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Exploring Mars on Earth

The spires and pillars in the ESO new images of the Carina Nebula are vast clouds of dust and gas within a hub of star formation about 7500 light-years away. In an ironic twist, one of the first consequences of...

The rings of Saturn, Neptune and Uranus are composed of pieces of Pluto-like dwarf planets that strayed too close to the giant worlds long ago, a new study suggests.

Spectacular new observations of vast pillar-like structures within the Carina Nebula have been made using the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope. The different pillars analysed by an international team seem to...

(Phys.org)--Astrophysicists from Germany and France have recently performed very high energy studies of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) designated HESS J1825'137. The findings, presented in a paper published Oct. 27 on arXi...

I've written many times about the Orion Nebula, one of the most magnificent star-forming regions in the galaxy. It's a spectacular gas cloud, wispy and sculpted, multicolored and bright. It's only about 1,400 light-years...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Scientists have found a world that looks like ours, but has deadly winds and rains molten glass --

Holy low-flying space rocks, Batman. Newly discovered asteroid 2016 VA snuck up on us last night, and crossed through the Earth’s shadow to boot. Discovered just yesterday by the Mount Lemmon Sky Survey based outside o...

Water has been showing up in all sorts of unexpected places in our solar system, such as the Moon, Mercury and Saturn's moon Ganymede. Add one more place to the list: Asteroid 16 Psyche. This metal-rich asteroid may have...