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According to a new study by researchers from Brazil, objects accelerating through space could be subject to increased radiation exposure. The post Could Space Travelers Melt As They Accelerate Through Deep Space? appeare...

Three years ago, a University of Utah-led team discovered that an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy contained a supermassive black hole, then the smallest known galaxy to harbor such a giant black hole. The findings suggested t...

This year, NASA will celebrate Earth Day, April 22, with a variety of live and online activities Thursday and Friday, April 20-21, to engage the public in the agency's mission to better understand and protect our home pl...

Dark matter extends far beyond the reach of the furthest stars in the galaxy, forming what scientists call a dark matter halo. While stars within the galaxy all rotate in a neat, organized disk, these dark matter particl...

Three years ago, a University of Utah-led team discovered that an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy contained a supermassive black hole, then the smallest known galaxy to harbor such a giant black hole. The findings suggested t...

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LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) with contributions from NASA, has successfully demonstrated critical technologies needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting ripples in space...

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The International Space Station re-supply mission launch is scheduled to occur on April 18, 2017. United Launch Alliance delivers the mission profile.

The CoOperative Blending of Autonomous Landing Technologies (COBALT) project is working on precision technologies to land on places like Mars, the moon, Europa, and more. NASA and Masten Space Systems have parterned to t...

A new NASA-funded study has identified which glaciers in West Greenland are most susceptible to thinning in the coming decades by analyzing how they're shaped....

New NASA research from the Cassini mission has found new excitement on one of Saturn's moons: plumes of vapor emerging from Enceladus contain large amounts of molecular hydrogen. More importantly, this hydrogen seems to ...

Researchers have produced what they say is the first composite image of a dark matter filament that connects galaxies across the cosmos.

In the 1970s, scientists noticed something strange about the motion of galaxies. All the matter at the edge of spiral galaxies was rotating just as fast as material in the inner part of the galaxy....

Einstein's Brain focuses on how advances in neurology have influenced our understanding of human's as 'neurochemical selves'. Examining the recent trend to explain every aspect of personality by underlying brain processe...

Amazing Jupiter Discovery: Astronomers Observe a 'Great Cold Spot' --"May Have Existed for Thousands of Years" For First Time We Have the Technology to Observe Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole -- "Can Spot a Golf Ball...

NASA's Launch Services Program delivers a quick animated look at the low-cost satellites.

"What's a first here is the exquisite control we have over the nature of this negative mass, without any other complications" said Forbes. Their research clarifies, in terms of negative mass, similar behavior seen in oth...

The Oklahoma Republican told a Tulsa TV station that he was recently interviewed again by the White House for the job. SpaceNews.com

The three International Space Station residents upgraded computer hardware and software today. The crew is also heading into the weekend preparing for the arrival of a new crew and a new cargo shipment....

Beneath the Atlantic Ocean is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an geological feature that runs north-south and measures some 40,000 km (25,000 mi) in length. The post What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge? appeared first on Universe Tod...

If chemical energy is life's coin and water is life's marketplace, there may be a swift economy alive and well beneath the icy shell of Saturn's brightest moon. Such was the announcement during NASA's April 13th press co...