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On October 13th, 2014, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) experienced something rare and unexpected. While monitoring the surface of the Moon, the LRO’s main instrument – the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (...

A new study sheds light on how damaging black holes can be to the habitability of planets throughout the Milky Way and the universe --

Saturn's icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus may have tipped over in the distant past, according to recent research from NASA's Cassini mission. Researchers with the mission found evidence that the moon's spin axis--the li...

The two companies developing commercial crew vehicles for NASA may not be able to meet a safety threshold specified in their contracts, an agency safety panel found. SpaceNews.com

Great progress is being made on the European Extremely Large Telescope. Construction of the dome and the main telescope was marked by the "First Stone" ceremony held at the telescope's site in Chile. The post Constructio...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Pale "halos" around fractures in bedrock analyzed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contain copious silica, indicating that ancient Mars had liquid water for a long time.

Supermassive black holes are thought to lie at the heart of almost all galaxies. But some theorists suggest that there's something else there instead--not a black hole, but an even stranger supermassive object that has s...

A study produced by an international team of researchers, using the HARPS-N survey, has detected a potentially habitable super-Earth just 21 light years away. The post Super-Earth Planet Found in the Habitable Zone of a ...

Observing Earth from 400 kilometres (250 miles) away has made astronaut Thomas Pesquet aware of the planet's fragility as never before, he told AFP from the International Space Station days before heading home.

"Gale crater once held a lake with water that we would even have been able to drink, but we still don't know how long this habitable environment" endured, said Jens Frydenvang, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laborato...

NASA's special "Webb-cam" kept an eye on the development of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, since 2012. Now that Webb telescope has moved to NASA's Johnson ...

The transits and conjunctions of the 7 planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are translated into music.

Lighter-toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica--called "halos"--has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much longer than previously b...

NASA technologists produced telescope mirrors with the highest reflectance ever reported in the far-ultraviolet spectral range. Now, they're attempting to set another record.

SpaceX said the test was a success, setting the stage for a launch late Thursday of a Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. SpaceNews.com

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University have put a basic principle of black holes to the test, showing that matter completely vanishes when pul...

Today - Cardio Ox Ultrasound: A 50S crewmember completed their Flight Day (FD) 180 ultrasound, blood pressure and Electrocardiogram (ECG) measurements for the Cardio Ox investigation....

Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University have put a basic principle of black holes to the test, showing that matter completely vanishes when pulled in. Their results constitute another succ...

What was the first animal in space? The answer may have you buzzing.

While the U.S. prepares for the Great American Total Solar Eclipse coming on Aug. 21, National Geographic's "Genius" recounts how a solar eclipse helped to prove Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers led by Liliana Rivera Sandoval of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, has found 22 new cataclysmic variable stars in a globular cluster known as 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc f...

Astronomers want to harness itsspacetime-warping gravity as a lens toimage the surface of exoplanets in astonishing detail --