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Using a "space-proof" camera mounted on the chest of his spacesuit, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured video of a January 13, 2017 spacewalk. Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough completed a power upgrade for th...

Half a century after a fire claimed the lives of three of its astronauts, NASA has placed on display the hatches from the flame-damaged Apollo 1 command module, marking the first time any artifact from the capsule has be...

Researchers have used remote sensing data to map out the functional diversity of forests in the Peruvian Andes and Amazon basin, a technique that has revealed hotspots for conservation....

Boeing has unveiled the advanced new lightweight spacesuits that astronauts will sport as passengers aboard the company's CST-100 Starliner space taxi during commercial taxi journey's to and from and the International Sp...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Kimberly Cartier is a PhD candidate in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University...

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A series of studies based on data obtained from Chandra X-ray observatory may held shed light on the mysteries of pulsars. The post Space Jellyfish Show Types Of Pulsar Wind Nebulas appeared first on Universe Today.

The "Kounotori" H-II Transfer Vehicle was released from the Interational Space Stations robotic arm on Jan. 27th, 2017. It will deorbit in early February and burn up over the Pacific Ocean.

Carl Sagan hit on the idea 40 years ago. Now, a team of scientists have discovered that a trifecta of gases may have warmed Mars enough for liquid water to gush. The post Carl Sagan’s Theory Of Early Mars Warming Gets ...

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Perhaps the source "is a dwarf galaxy that contains a supermassive black hole, or is the nucleus of a disrupted galaxy or even just an isolated black hole," Heino Falcke, a radio astronomer and astroparticle physicist at...

The lesser-known constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), is home to a variety of deep-sky objects--including this beautiful galaxy, known as NGC 4861. Astronomers are still debating on how to classify it. Whi...

NASA scientists studying high-altitude radiation recently published new results on the effects of cosmic radiation in our atmosphere. Their research will help improve real-time radiation monitoring for aviation industry ...

A new tribute opened Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, dedicated to the lives, accomplishments and memories of the three astronauts who perished 50 years ago ...

NASA opened an exhibit Friday honoring the astronauts in the Apollo 1 fire--50 years to the day they died.

Friday is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts. I wrote the following article a few years ago, but my feelings have not changed at all. Space calls to us, and we must answer, even when w...

January 27 marks the 50th anniversary of the first major, deadly disaster for the U.S. space program --

Russian media reported that test firings found problems with engines used in the second and third stages of the rocket. SpaceNews.com

Sometimes, its not the eye candy aspect of the image, but what it represents. A recent image of Pluto's large moon Charon courtesy of New Horizons depicting what could only be termed 'Plutoshine' caught our eye. Looking ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

ESA's new small telecom platform, SmallGEO, was launched on its first mission at 01:03 GMT on 28 January from Europe's Spaceport