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Early each January, the Quadrantid meteor stream provides one of the most intense annual meteor displays, with a brief, sharp maximum lasting only a few hours. And in 2017, viewing circumstances favor North Americans, es...

Thomas Pesquet: Closing in on Paris, not zoomed in enough, but spreading from Orly to Roissy airports, the city of light is aptly named. Happy New Year!...

Thomas Pesquet: A closer look at the sand dunes. I wouldn't like to be lost in such a repetitive landscape......

What's in a date? Strictly speaking, New Year's Day is just an arbitrary flip of the calendar, but it can also be a cathartic time of reflection and renewal. So it is with one of the most extraordinary dates in the histo...

      

NASA releases 'ice home' concept for living on Mars The 5 Biggest Questions About the Universe (and How We're Trying To Answer Them) First total solar eclipse in decades will sweep across US in 2017 The Science Stories W...

"Real-time Earth observation is going to change the way science is done over the next 10 to 20 years," said Tim Crone, a marine geophysicist who is co-leading a Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory initiative to push the fro...

SpaceX plans to resume Falcon 9 launches on Jan. 8 after completing the investigation into the pad explosion that destroyed another Falcon 9 four months ago. SpaceNews.com

The Universe is cycles. Planets orbit their stars. Stars are born and die and seed the Universe with more gas and elements to create more stars. Galaxies spin. Closer to home, we see the Sun rising and setting, we awake ...

Astronomers from across the U.S. are heading to Texas this week for the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

Monday's Science News Headlines       

A satellite is ejected from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Small Satellite Orbital Deployer on the International Space Station on Dec. 19, 2016. The satellite is actually two small satellites that, once at...

ESA's Bianca Hoersch and Francois Spoto join the Earth from Space video programme from the cleanroom to discuss the Sentinel-2B satellite and its mission

Georgia-based company DataPath will be the U.S. Army's new lead support for satcom field services, as well as supporting the Pentagon's Combatant Commands, after winning a more-than $300 million contract, the company ann...