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New techniques reveal how supermassive black holes shred entire stars --

Astronomers at the University of Waterloo have given us the first image of a dark matter filament bridge between two galaxies. The post Researchers Image Dark Matter Bridge Between Galaxies appeared first on Universe Tod...

A report from NASA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) April 13 concluded that the first two missions of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft will likely slip from their currently scheduled dates. SpaceNew...

Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of these and other "ocean worlds" in our solar system and beyond. The ...

We once thought oceans made our planet unique, but we're now coming to realize that 'ocean worlds' are all around us. Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Satu...

We once thought oceans made our planet unique, but we're now coming to realize that 'ocean worlds' are all around us. Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Satu...

NASA has selected Astrotech Space Operations, LLC, of Titusville, Florida, to provide commercial payload processing services for agency missions launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Sta...

Scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have discovered hydrogen gas in the plume of material erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicates that the hydrogen...

The world's most experienced spacewoman said Thursday she's thrilled to get an extra three months off the planet.

Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of these and other "ocean worlds" in our solar system and beyond. The ...

Scientists find molecular hydrogen and liquid-water geysers on ocean-bearing moons in the outer solar system --

It's a shooting gallery out there. The spattered face of Earth's Moon and large impact sites such as Meteor Crater outside of Flagstaff Arizona remind us that we still inhabit a dangerous neighborhood. But despite the in...

This Earth Day (April 22), the Slooh online observatory will broadcast astronauts and community members expressing what they love most about the planet.

Thanks to observatories such as NASA's Kepler space telescope, we know that two-star systems can indeed support planets, although planets discovered so far around double-star systems are large and gaseous. Scientists won...

France and Japan want to recover pieces of a Martian Moon and bring them back to Earth, the head of France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) said Thursday.

"Far beyond Pluto is a region surprisingly rich with planetary bodies. Some are quite small but others have sizes to rival Pluto, and could possibly be much larger," said David Gerdes, a scientist with the University of ...

NASA takes a deep dive into the pool of worlds that harbor or are suspected of harboring water in our solar system.

NASA will discuss new results about ocean worlds in our solar system from the agency's Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope during a news briefing 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 13. The event, to be held at t...

Operations image of the week: ESA's telescope on Tenerife is one of the world's top-ranked instruments used for debris research

There's one force whose effects are so deeply entrenched in our everyday lives that we probably don't think much about it at all: gravity. Gravity is the force that causes attraction between masses. It's why when you dro...

The Opto-Electronics Laboratory investigates devices that generate, detect and manipulate light, such as high-performance lasers, photon detectors and fibre optics.

Auroras on the most volcanically active body in the solar system, Jupiter's moon Io, reveal a larger core and a lack of magma ocean beneath the crust.