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Thomas Pesquet‏@Thom_astro I took the #ParisAgreement to the ISS: from space, climate change is very real. Some could probably use the view #MakeOurPlanetGreatAgain...

A new study by a team of researchers from the Future of Humanity Institute argues that the reason we haven't detected any aliens is because they are currently sleeping. The post Maybe the Aliens Aren’t Hiding, they’r...

India's maiden launch of the GSLV Mark 3 rocket June 5 marks a big step forward on the country's path to greater self sufficiency in space -- a strategy India has used to guide its space activities not only in launch, bu...

Boosted by natural magnifying lenses in space, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured unique close-up views of the universe's brightest infrared galaxies, which are as much as 10,000 times more luminous than our Milk...

Cosmologically speaking, the Milky Way and its immediate neighborhood are in the boondocks.

Two galaxy clusters in the process of merging created a layer of surprisingly hot gas between them that University of Colorado Boulder astronomers believe is from turbulence caused by banging into each other at supersoni...

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In biology, "symbiosis" refers to two organisms that live close to and interact with one another. Astronomers have long studied a class of stars--called symbiotic stars--that co-exist in a similar way. Using data from NA...

Cool dwarf stars are hot targets for exoplanet hunting right now. The discoveries of planets in the habitable zones of the TRAPPIST-1 and LHS 1140 systems, for example, suggest that Earth-sized worlds might circle billio...

The risk is growing that Earth will be hit by an asteroid from a meteor stream known as the Taurids, Czech astronomers said on Tuesday.

Astronaut Yvonne Cagle had a critical job to perform in February: Escort 98-year-old mathematician Katherine Johnson across the country to the Academy Awards to be honored alongside the movie spotlighting her life, "Hidd...

A disturbing trend has been taking shape over the past year relating to the Outer Space Treaty and, specifically, whether Article VI applies to private citizens with respect to private space activities. SpaceNews.com

The Standard Model of particle physics describes the basic building blocks of matter and how they interact. It also makes a point that for every particle created, there is an anti-particle. However, the Standard Model do...

Relaxing regulations and lowering some of the hurdles that discourage private firms from working with federal agencies would bolster innovation, according to panelists at the 2017 GEOINT Symposium. SpaceNews.com

Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch said Monday he is working with the Space and Missile Systems Center to figure out the next step after Blue Origin lost a set of engine powerpack hardware during a test. SpaceNews.com

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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: In biology, "symbiosis" refers to two organisms that live close to and interact with one another. Astronomers have long studied a class of stars -- called symbiotic stars -- that co-exis...

Students at Leeds Elementary School in Elkton, Maryland, will speak with a NASA astronaut living and working aboard the International Space Station at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, June 9.

Space agency takes a hard look at plans for its next big space observatory --

Is it a case of nature versus nurture when it comes to two "cousin" exoplanets? In a unique experiment, scientists used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study two "hot Jupiter" exoplanets. Because these planets are virtu...