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Operations image of the week: Engineers working in ESA's control room in 1978

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

Hawking also said climate change is "one of the greatest dangers we face."

Labor protests in Kourou, French Guiana, have prompted Arianespace to postpone an Ariane 5 launch of two telecommunications satellites until at least Thursday. SpaceNews.com

Consider that the Earth is just a giant cosmic dust bunny--a big bundle of debris amassed from exploded stars. We Earthlings are essentially just little clumps of stardust, too, albeit with very complex chemistry.

A molecule found in car engine exhaust fumes that is thought to have contributed to the origin of life on Earth has made astronomers heavily underestimate the amount of stars that were forming in the early Universe, a Un...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: One of our planet's few exposed lava lakes is changing, and artificial intelligence is helping NASA understand how.

A routine check by the Curiosity science team revealed that breaks have formed in the rover's left middle wheel since they last checked in January of 2017. The post Curiosity’s Battered Wheels Show First Breaks appeare...

SpaceX and NASA have identified 4 possible locations for the first Dragon journey to Mars in 2020. The post SpaceX & NASA Studying 2020 Landing Sites For Dragon appeared first on Universe Today.

A mere 15,000 light-years from Earth, Westerlund 1 star cluster is home to a star that dwarfs Earth's sun. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this view of the star's home cluster.

A new citizen-science project will rescue tens of thousands of potentially valuable cosmic images that are mostly dead to science and bring them fully back to life. Called Astronomy Rewind, the effort, which launches tod...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Astronomers from all over the world flock to the high-altitude desert of Chile and its bevy of telescopes to study the Universe. Learn more about the region.

NASA is developing a trailblazing, long-term technology demonstration of what could become the high-speed internet of the sky.

The Rosetta spacecraft documented unique changes spotted on comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it approached the sun --growing fractures, collapsing cliffs and rolling boulders on the comet's surface. A study published M...

You gotta love Earth’s atmosphere. It basically makes life (as we know it) possible on our planet by providing warmth and air to breathe, as well as protecting us from nasty space things like radiation and smaller aste...

Astronomers have developed a way to detect the ultraviolet (UV) background of the Universe, which could help explain why there are so few small galaxies in the cosmos. UV radiation is invisible but shows up as visible re...

Three astronauts are preparing for a Friday morning spacewalk to upgrade and maintain the International Space Station's external systems. The three cosmonauts stayed focused today on their set of Russian space experiment...

"Perhaps there will be some future bill that makes a difference for Mars, but this is not it," he wrote. SpaceNews.com

A new film shows how essential female scientists and engineers are to India’s burgeoning space program --

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers from France and the Slovak Republic has proposed a theory to explain the water-like streaks that appear seasonally on the surface of Mars, which do not involve water. In their paper publ...

When a meteoroid travels in space, solar radiation leaves distinctive imprints on its outer layer. Together with colleagues, ETH researcher Antoine Roth has developed novel analytical techniques to detect these imprints,...