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Dark matter? Who needs it?! Gravity may be something else altogether. The post New Theory of Gravity Does Away With Need for Dark Matter appeared first on Universe Today.

An international team of astronomers has imaged the Eta Carinae star system in the greatest detail ever. Eta Carinae is a colossal binary system that consists of two massive stars orbiting each other. It is found almost ...

Three crew members representing the United States, Russia and France are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 17 (2:20...

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and commander Oleg Novitsky were launched into space at 20:20 GMT (21:20 CET)

Three crew members representing the United States, Russia and France are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 17 (2:20...

A Soyuz rocket carrying a veteran American astronaut, a French newcomer and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off for the International Space Station on Friday.

An executive order calling for more preparedness and better forecasting for space weather is creating a buzz about electromagnetic storms. What are they? --

A brief but brilliant burst of radiation that traveled at least a billion light years through Space to reach an Australian radio telescope last year has given scientists new insight into the fabric of the Universe. The c...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The way forward in space requires the U.S. government to partner closely with both foreign and commercial allies, the Pentagon's top space official said Nov. 15. SpaceNews.com

A European Ariane 5 rocket, operating in a rarely used configuration and debuting a new satellite-dispenser system, on Nov. 17 successfully placed four European Galileo positioning, navigation and timing satellites into ...

California Institute of Technology:

The Soyuz rocket that will launch three new Expedition 50 crew members to space Thursday was blessed at its launch pad today. Back in space, the Canadarm2 grappled the Cygnus cargo craft ahead of its release early next w...

he space agency, whose satellites and scientists have been instrumental in studying our changing planet, is working with officials in New York City and Rio de Janeiro to "share insights and solutions against specific cli...

"This is a puzzling case because we're seeing energetic electrons where we don't think they should be, and no model fits them," said David Sibeck, co-author and THEMIS project scientist at NASA Goddard. "There is a gap i...

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky blasted into space this evening from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:20 GMT. Their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft is no...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Astronomers have discovered a large valley on Mercury that provides further evidence for the planet's shrinkage -- an odd phenomenon that has been the topic of debate for decades.

Beneath Pluto's "heart" lies a cold, slushy ocean of water ice, according to data from NASA's New Horizons mission. In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the New Horizons team, including researchers from MIT,...

Two geoscientists at Arizona State University have made a discovery among hot springs in Chile that may spur scientists to revisit a location on Mars explored several years ago by NASA's Spirit rover. The discovery invol...

Are the laws of nature constant throughout the universe, or do they change depending on where one is? As far as we can tell, the fundamental laws that govern our understanding of reality, including the four fundamental f...

This image was taken by the Sentinel-2A satellite on 29 August 2015. It spotlights the Rhine-Main area south of the city of Frankfurt, one of Europe's leading business, transport and innovation hubs.