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There is still good reason to think undiscovered fundamental particles act as gravitational glue for galaxies. --

A new study from a team of researchers from the University of Arkansas shows that certain types of microorganisms could survive on Mars, helping to narrow the search for life there. The post Some Earth Life is Ready to L...

Members of NASA's New Horizons team will discuss the achievements of the first encounter with Pluto and look ahead to the mission's next exploration of the Kuiper Belt during a Facebook Live event at 4 p.m. EST on Thursd...

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Thomas PesquetL Europe's roof - Mont Blanc! I was lucky enough to climb it one summer in the best company....

Like cosmic lighthouses sweeping the universe with bursts of energy, pulsars have fascinated and baffled astronomers since they were first discovered 50 years ago. In two studies, international teams of astronomers sugge...

NASA pays tribute to former NASA astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, who died Monday, January 16 at the age of 82 following ongoing health issues according to a statement from his family....

Today: Japanese-Small Satellite Orbital Deployer-6 (J-SSOD-6) Deployment: Today four deployers, holding six satellites, were grappled by the JEM Remote Manipulator System (JEMRMS) and deployed....

One of the major questions facing us today is how the present ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will react to climate change. Simply put, the more we understand of the mechanisms that drove ice sheets to collapse in...

Through the cosmos, galaxies are dying off, and the question astronomers want answered is, "what's killing them?" New research by a global team of researchers, based at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Resear...

"I also stand here and I am wondering what people are going to think, not in another 40 years, maybe another hundred years, who knows, maybe another 1000 years," said Apollo 17 commander Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan.

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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile has been adapted to observe the Sun. This gives astronomers the ability to witness the G-type main-sequence star in millimetre-wavelength light.

As commander of the final Apollo mission in 1972, Cernan was the last human to walk on the moon --

New images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveal stunning details of our Sun, including the dark, contorted center of an evolving sunspot that is nearly twice the diameter of the Earth.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Thomas Pesquet spacewalk

It's the big astrophysical whodunnit. Across the Universe, galaxies are being killed and the question scientists want answered is, what's killing them?

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Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan has died. Besides being a Naval aviator, a fighter pilot, and an engineer, he is best known as the last human to have stood on the surface of the Moon. Like every other astronaut of the ti...

The company that operates an Alaska launch site is critical of the spaceport's inclusion in a list of pork-barrel spending released last week by a senator. SpaceNews.com

The International Space Station (ISS) will soon get an important tool capable of conducting highly accurate measurements of aerosols and gaseous constituents in the stratosphere and troposphere. The Stratospheric Aerosol...

Venus is known both as the "planet of love" and the Earth's "evil twin". And although research suggests its environment is more hellish than romantic, there's actually a lot we don't know about our celestial neighbour. N...