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Hubble captured an image of a beautiful collision in IRAS 14348-1447, an ultraluminous infrared galaxy in deep space.

NASA is ready to move ahead with plans to purchase Earth science data from commercial smallsat companies as it weighs the balance of large and small satellite systems to meet its research needs. SpaceNews.com

A new study by a team of researchers from Columbia University and Berkeley proposes the most plausible explanation yet for Tabby's Star. The post Finally, An Explanation for the Alien Megastructure? appeared first on Uni...

"What's that bright light in the sky?" The planet Venus never fails to impress, and indeed make even seasoned observers look twice at its unexpected brilliance. The third brightest natural object in the sky, Venus now ru...

After a two-and-a-half-hour descent, the metallic, saucer-shaped spacecraft came to rest with a thud on a dark floodplain covered in cobbles of water ice, in temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing....

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Orbital ATK has completed a significant mission milestone for NASA's next International Space Station cargo mission....

Scientist Carl Sagan said many times that "we are star stuff," from the nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, and the iron in our blood. It is well known that most of the essential elements of life are truly mad...

"The star streams that have been mapped so far are like creeks compared to the giant river of stars we predict will be observed eventually," says Marion Dierickx of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). ...

2 billion light-years away, galaxy clusters Abell 3411 and Abell 3412 are colliding. Observations using the Chandra X-ray Telescope and other telescopes has revealed evidence of black hole eruptions.

The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well outside the Milky Way's spiral disk. New research by Harvard astronomers shows that half of those stars might have been rip...

Funny how things work out. I had already drafted an article about an interview I did over the weekend with my friend Cara Santa Maria for her "Talk Nerdy" podcast. We spent a lot of time talking about critical thinking, ...

One path to finding life on other planets -- or moons -- involves looking for signature patterns of amino acids, which are organic molecules that are critical to life on Earth. But looking for these molecules on Mars or ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT), Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), La Silla Observatory, and the future site of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) are flown over by drones and briefly explai...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

An analysis that would have taken more than a thousand years on a single computer has found within one year more than a dozen new rapidly rotating neutron stars in data from the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. With comp...

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers has uncovered molecular and atomic gas clouds associated with the superbubble known as 30 Doradus C, which is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The findings wer...

NASA flight director Mary Lawrence answers questions about the day to day operations of mission control in Houston.

With a slightly different ratio of elements in the sun, Earth could have been far less forgiving. Take, for instance, the case of "garnet planets."

The universe is an astonishingly secretive place. Mysterious substances known as dark matter and dark energy account for some 95 percent of it. Despite huge effort to find out what they are, we simply don't know.

Although still producing world-class science, a lack of funding could soon mothball the storied radio telescope --

How do you deliver supplies to one of the remotest research stations on Earth? Put the equipment and food on skis and pull them by tractor across the ice and snow in a long caravan.