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When exploring Gusev Crater in 2007, NASA's Spirit rover discovered some curious silica deposits -- were they formed by ancient Martian life?

A new simulation suggests at the explosive origins of ultra-diffuse galaxies, hinting that there may be many more than seen so far.

A Germany-based group of rocket scientists are aiming to land a pair of privately-funded Audi-branded rovers on the moon and drive them to view NASA's Apollo 17 lunar roving vehicle, marking 45 years since humans last dr...

Sky Canvas plans to launch a colorful artificial meteor shower barrage via micro-satellite. The post Japanese Company Plans Artificial Meteor Shower appeared first on Universe Today.

Consider it a cosmic carousel with countless rings up for grabs.

Astronomers have obtained observations of the smallest asteroid ever characterized in detail. At 2 meters (6 feet) in diameter, the tiny space rock is small enough to be straddled by a person in a hypothetical space-them...

A Spanish space startup is designing a set of rockets that it hopes will be the first reusable launch vehicles from a European company. SpaceNews.com

This week the sun was hitting its lowest level of solar activity since 2011 (Nov. 14-18, 2016) as it gradually marches towards solar minimum. This activity is usually measured by sunspot count and over the past several d...

Pluto's "icy heart" is a bright, two-lobed feature on its surface that has attracted researchers ever since its discovery by the NASA New Horizons team in 2015...

Pluto's "icy heart" is a bright, two-lobed feature on its surface that has attracted researchers ever since its discovery by the NASA New Horizons team in 2015. Of particular interest is the heart's western lobe, informa...

A team led by Roberto Mignani from INAF Milan (Italy) and from the University of Zielona Gora (Poland), used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile to observe the neutron star RX J1856.5-375...

NASA needs you to rise to the Space Poop Challenge and help its astronauts go where no astronaut has gone before.

A group of 14 girls in South Africa helped conceive and build a satellite that will collect information on agriculture and natural disasters across the African continent.

A strange quantum phenomenon predicted more than 80 years ago may have finally been observed in nature, thanks to a neutron star.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft begins a series of daring dives through Saturn's rings Nov. 30, the first step in the probe’s “grand finale” investigation of the gas giant planet --

The Chinese space agency launched a new space lab, sent up its longest crewed mission ever and tested out powerful new rockets --

Venus and Mars can be viewed in the southwestern skies after sunset. The Perseus and Cassiopeia constellations are excellent skywatching targets. Also in mid-December, the Geminid meteor shower will peak.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

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Just recently I wrote about one of the coolest and weirdest weather/optical phenomena I've ever seen: crown flashes, also called jumping sun dogs. They're streamers of light above storm clouds that appear to dance and fl...

By studying the light emitted from an extraordinarily dense and strongly magnetized neutron star using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers may have found the first observational indications of a strange quantum effec...

Join StarTalk Radio for a panel discussion and questions from the audience that run the gamut from mutant cyborgs and artificial intelligence, to life on exoplanets and asteroid mining. You'll hear about the potential fo...