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A new discovery has upended the widely held view that all pulsars are orderly ticking clocks of the universe. A survey done at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has fortuitously discovered two extremely strange puls...

Arecibo Observatory observations of galactic neutral hydrogen structure confirm the discovery of an unexpected contribution to the measurements of the cosmic microwave background observed by the WMAP and Planck spacecraf...

A new backyard telescope accumulates and intensifies light, bringing the shapes and colors of cosmic objects into clearer view for amateur astronomers, the instrument's makers say.

For the first time since the twin Voyager spacecraft missions in 1979, scientists have produced far-infrared maps of Jupiter using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. These maps were created f...

Astronomers have discovered a cosmic one-two punch unlike any ever seen before. Two of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe, a supermassive black hole, and the collision of giant galaxy clusters, have combined to ...

A team of researchers has compiled a special catalog to help astronomers figure out the true distances to tens of thousands of galaxies beyond our own Milky Way.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Artist rendition of interior compositions of planets around the stars Kepler 102 and Kepler 407. The picture shows what minerals are likely to occur several different depths. Kepler 102 is Earth...

At the 229th Meeting of the AAS, an international of researchers shared images of two of the most powerful forces in the cosmos occurring at the same time in the same place. The post Chandra Spots Two Cosmic Heavy-Hitter...

On Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, millions in the U.S. will have their eyes to the sky as they witness a total solar eclipse. The moon's shadow will race across the United States, from Oregon to South Carolina. The path of this ...

An unparalleled image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is giving an international team of astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years beginning soon after the Big Bang. This is ...

"These are questions that haven't been fully explored yet and I'm shouting as loud as I can saying that we need to explore them," says Sanjay Limaye, an atmospheric scientist from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

On January 4, NASA announced the selection of two missions to explore previously unexplored asteroids....

Pluto's strange "snakeskin" terrain is composed of ice ridges similar to, but much larger than, those found on Earth, a new study suggests.

This is the deepest X-ray image ever obtained, made with over 7 million seconds of observing time with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Two newly discovered weird pulsars serve as extremely powerful and accurate cosmic clocks -- but only some of the time.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

"This is an opportunity to explore a new type of world - not one of rock or ice, but of metal," said Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Psyche's principal investigator and planetary scientist at Arizona State University. "16 Psyche is...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The agency said Monday that Andrew Feustel and Jeanette Epps will go to the station. SpaceNews.com