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A new study has revealed how human activity has been affected the near-space environment, creating a bubble that protects against space radiation. The post We Might Have a New Way to Push Back Space Radiation appeared fi...

You can't see them, but swarms of electrons are buzzing through the magnetic environment--the magnetosphere--around Earth. The electrons spiral and dive around the planet in a complex dance dictated by the magnetic and e...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. EDT Friday, May 26, to discuss select science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station.

First radio observations of the lonely, planet-like object OTS44 reveal a dusty protoplanetary disk that is very similar to disks around young stars. This is unexpected, given that models of star and planet formation pre...

A new BBC documentary called "The Day The Dinosaurs Died" explains how things might have been different for the dinosaurs if the asteroid that caused their extinction had hit deeper ocean. The post Dinosaur Killing Aster...

NASA has selected URS Federal Services Inc. of Germantown, Maryland, to provide facilities operations and maintenance support services at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

NASA is going ahead with these plans even though the administration's fiscal year 2018 budget blueprint included no funding for a Europa lander mission. SpaceNews.com

The environment on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, may seem surprisingly familiar: Clouds condense and rain down on the surface, feeding rivers that flow into oceans and lakes. Outside of Earth, Titan is the only other pla...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

The combined power of three space observatories, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has helped astronomers uncover a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, catalogued as 2007 OR10. The pair resides in the fr...

Supersymmetry is an extension to the Standard Model that may explain the origin of dark matter and pave the way to a grand unified theory of nature. For each particle of the Standard Model, supersymmetry introduces an ex...

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has made the first complete millimeter-wavelength image of the ring of dusty debris surrounding the young star Fomalhaut....

Had your fill of binocular comets? Turns out, 2017 may have saved the best for last. The past few months has seen a steady stream of dirty snowball visitations to the inner solar system, both short term periodic and long...

For the first time in the world, scientists have explored the magnetic field in the upper solar atmosphere by observing the polarization of ultraviolet light from the Sun....

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has made the first complete millimeter-wavelength image of the ring of dusty debris surrounding the young star Fomalhaut....

NASA is asking scientists to consider what would be the best instruments to include on a mission to land on Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. The proposed Europa lander is separate from and would follow its predecessor -- the ...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

On May 18, 1969, NASA launched the Apollo 10 mission to the moon. See photos from this dress rehearsal for the Apollo lunar landings that followed in our full gallery here.

Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride give their thoughts on the search for extraterrestrial life to Space.com contributor Tereza Pultarova.

Working inside the International Space Station is sometimes like assembling complex furniture but with the tools and paper instructions continually floating out of reach. Astronauts also face situations unforeseen by the...

Chinese satellite fleet operator China Satcom is preparing to support the country's ambitious international trade development program by growing its footprint in maritime and aviation services, among others. SpaceNews.co...

NASA scientists have revealed the presence of a huge man-made bubble that's surrounding the Earth, likely the result of very low frequency (VLF) radio signals, used to communicate with deep-ocean submarines. "By understa...