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Researchers at the LHC beauty experiment (part of CERN) announced new test results that hint at the existence of new physics. The post CERN Declares War On The Standard Model appeared first on Universe Today.

A bill would create a legal framework for companies to have rights to space resources they extract. SpaceNews.com

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Orbital ATK's Cygnus supply ship soared to space from the Florida Space Coast at lunchtime today, Tuesday, April 18, drenched in sunshine and carrying the 'SS John Glenn' loaded with over three...

NASA is making sure the next generation of high school graduates understand the variety of career paths that can lead to missions exploring space. In fact, hundreds of students are already helping NASA's astronauts live ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its final close flyby of Saturn's haze-enshrouded moon Titan this weekend. The flyby marks the mission's final opportunity for up-close observations of the lakes and seas of liquid hyd...

A peanut-shaped asteroid 1.3 kilometres (3,280 feet) across streaked past Earth on Wednesday, giving astronomers a rare chance to check out a big space rock up close.

NASA has long been a leader in understanding the science of space weather, including research into the potential for induced electrical currents to disrupt our power systems. Last year, NASA scientists worked with scient...

NASA's collaboration with artists goes back to the early days of the Agency, and has produced some fascinating and thought-provoking work. The post Art History NASA Style appeared first on Universe Today.

Few events at the NASA Ames Research Center draw the crowd that greeted Luxembourg's royal delegation April 12. The Grand Duchy's prince, princess and deputy prime minister met with NASA officials, Silicon Valley entrepr...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

At the center of the Centaurus galaxy cluster, there is a large elliptical galaxy called NGC 4696. Deeper still, there is a supermassive black hole buried within the core of this galaxy.

The newly discovered super-Earth LHS 1140b orbits in the habitable zone around a faint red dwarf star named LHS 1140, in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Red dwarfs are much smaller and cooler than the Sun a...

President Donald Trump will speak next week to the commander of the orbiting International Space Station.

Earth is struck by an asteroid 60 meters (more than 190 feet) wide approximately once every 1500 years, whereas an asteroid 400 meters (more than 1,300 feet) across is likely to strike the planet every 100,000 years. If ...

A fighter pilot and a meteorologist have made the finals in the race to become Germany's first female astronaut.

Today: Orbital 7 (OA-7) Launch: OA-7 launched successfully from Cape Canaveral at 10:11AM CDT today. Capture and berthing to Node 1 Nadir is planned for Saturday, April 22 starting at 5:05AM CDT. The spacecraft will deli...

President Donald Trump, First Daughter Ivanka Trump, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will make a special Earth-to-space call Monday, April 24, from the Oval Office to personally congratulate NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson f...

NASA hasn't planned any follow-on missions for Enceladus, but it could be selected for a current or future round of planetary missions.

NASA used their 230-foot-wide (70 meter) Deep Space Network Antenna in Goldstone, California to capture imagery of the space rock on April 18, 2017. It made its nearest approach to Earth (1.1 million miles) on April 19.

IoT will present enormous challenges for people who offer satellite communications products and services because each connected device from refrigerators to tractors offers hackers a point of entry into the network and a...

The U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane has now been circling Earth for 700 days on its latest hush-hush mission.

A sea of wind-rippled sand surrounds a flat-topped Martian mountain in a striking new photo by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.