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It's unclear how this proposal would work with existing NASA studies of a Europa lander mission that could launch as soon as 2025. SpaceNews.com

NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson set the endurance record for time in space by a U.S, astronaut today, Monday, April 24, during her current stint of living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS) along with ...

Lockheed Martin Space Systems reported an increase in profit in its fiscal first quarter April 25 thanks in part to an increase in earnings from its stake in United Launch Alliance, but company officials cautioned that i...

"This means we can't entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model. But if that isn't the answer, then there are more exotic explanations. Perhaps the most exciting ...

"This means we can't entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model. But if that isn't the answer, then there are more exotic explanations. Perhaps the most exciting ...

NASA's digital communications team will be honored at the 21st Annual Webby Awards on May 16 in New York. For the first time, NASA's social media presence has been recognized by the Webby Awards, winning in corporate com...

A supervoid is unlikely to explain a 'Cold Spot' in the cosmic microwave background, according to the results of a new survey, leaving room for exotic explanations like a collision between universes. The researchers, led...

From the earliest days of our solar system's history, collisions between astronomical objects have shaped the planets and changed the course of their evolution....

A Canadian photographer captures a hot river of glowing gas so peculiar that no one knew at first what it was, so they called it Steve. The post Meet Steve, A Most Peculiar Aurora appeared first on Universe Today.

"Enhanced strangeness production" surprises experimenters at LHC's ALICE experiment. The post Another Strange Discovery From LHC That Nobody Understands appeared first on Universe Today.

See photos from National Geographic's "Genius," a gripping new drama series about Albert Einstein that highlights some of the most intriguing and intimate details of the acclaimed physicist's personal life.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

Citizen scientists and space-agency satellites come together to discover a new variety of aurora --

"Genius," a gripping new series about the life of Albert Einstein, makes its television debut tonight. The show delves into the more controversial aspects of Einstein's life, with plenty of violence and debauchery right ...

From the earliest days of our solar system's history, collisions between astronomical objects have shaped the planets and changed the course of their evolution. Studying the early bombardment history of Mars, scientists ...

The sun's magnetic "sphere of influence" that surrounds our solar system is shaped like a bubble, rather than having a long, comet-like tail as many scientists previously thought, new observations suggest.

On April 21, the spacecraft made its final close approach to Saturn's moon Titan and will now begin its last set of 22 orbits around Saturn until it takes its death plunge into Saturn's atmosphere right on September 15. ...

In order to make sense of our universe, astronomers have to work hard, and they have to push observing technology to the limit. Some of that hard work revolves around what are called sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs.) SMGs ...

Lomonosov Moscow State University scientists published the results of a study of unique ultra-slow pulsar XB091D. This neutron star is believed to have captured a companion only a million years ago, and since then, has b...

NASA successfully launched its football-stadium-sized, heavy-lift super pressure balloon (SPB) from Wanaka, New Zealand, at 10:50 a.m. Tuesday, April 25 (6:50 p.m. April 24 in U.S. Eastern Time), on a mission designed to...

Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson broke the U.S. record today for most cumulative time living in space, surpassing astronaut Jeff Williams' record of 534 days set during his four spaceflights. She passed Williams' ma...

After nearly 13 years in orbit around Saturn, the international Cassini-Huygens mission is about to begin its final chapter: the spacecraft will perform a series of daring dives between the planet and its rings, leading ...