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Like all of the planets, Jupiter was formed out of the solar nebula.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains at least 100 billion stars. Over the centuries, astronomers have scoured the skies, developing a thorough understanding of the lives of those stars, from their formation in vast nebula...

Using the same kind of light and detection ranging (lidar) technology as the OSIRIS-REx missions, archaeologists are uncovering secrets of Earth's distant past. The post NASA Technology Used To Find Stone Age Structures ...

For decades, astronomers have believed that a supermassive black hole exists at the center of our galaxy. And ongoing research has shown that it is not alone! The post What is a Supermassive Black Hole? appeared first on...

A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the formation of our solar...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission, currently scheduled for Monday, Dec. 12.

Astronauts may experience blurry vision and impaired eyesight after long spaceflights due to changes in spinal fluid that occur while in microgravity, researchers said Monday.

A group of researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the University of Tokyo, and the Astrobiology Center among others has observed the transit of a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet ...

Amateur astronomer and space enthusiast Zack Payne wants more people to get excited about looking at the sky, so he threw a supermoon party for his peers to come together come together and check out the giant, glowing mo...

Antarctica is heading into austral summer, a period of rapid sea ice melt in the Southern Ocean. But this year, NASA's Operation Icebridge reports that the sea ice loss has been particularly swift and the Antarctic sea i...

On 10 September, about 2000 Europeans helped to shape the future of space by taking part in a world first: the Citizens' Debate on Space for Europe.

NASA's Saffire-II experiment was conducted aboard Orbital Science's Cygnus spacecraft on Nov 21-22, 2016.

Invisible Dark Force of the Universe --"CERN's NA64 Zeroing in on Evidence of Its Existence" "Speed of Light Was Faster in the Early Universe" --Theory Soon to be Tested NASA Goddard: "All Galaxies are Embedded Within a ...

This labyrinth-like system of troughs and plateaus was imaged by ESA's Mars Express on 21 June 2016.

(Phys.org)--A team of European astronomers led by Benard Nsamba of the University of Porto in Portugal has developed a new tool for asteroseismic modeling of stars capable of deriving fundamental stellar parameters. The ...

Oklahoma's Beaver River is an incredibly historic place. Anthropologists estimate that as early as 10,500 years ago, human beings hunted bison in the region. Being without horses, the hunter-gatherers would funnel herds ...

As expected, the days leading up to Donald Trump's inauguration are like the timer on an atomic bomb ticking down to Armageddon. Every day there's some new horrific thing he and his cronies do, and the only predictable t...

Eutelsat has paid its Russian counterpart, RCSS, a long-overdue bill of more than $424 million despite an ongoing legal battle between the Russian government and the shareholders of the former Yukos oil company. SpaceNew...

In the edition of Space, Euronews correspondent Jeremy Wilks reports from the Observatory of the Côte d'Azur in the south of France on a unique mission to deflect an asteroid....

A group of researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the University of Tokyo, and the Astrobiology Center among others has observed the transit of a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet ...

In a unique study, an international team of researchers including members from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) simulated the violent collisions between supernovae and its ...