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Technology far exceeded expectations in LISA Pathfinder test --

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NASA will mark the worldwide observance of International Asteroid Day at noon EDT Friday, June 30, with a special television program featuring the agency's Planetary Defense Coordination Office and other projects working...

Global sea level rise will be one of the major environmental challenges of the 21st Century. NASA' s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) a 5-year airborne and ship-based mission that will pave the way for improved estimates o...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brad Rogers at The Evolving Planet blog.

"For a long time, we've been looking into space to try and find a pair of these supermassive black holes orbiting as a result of two galaxies merging," said Greg Taylor at the University of New Mexico. "Even though we've...

After a week of tests at the end of the International Space Station's robotic arm, the Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) was safely jettisoned.

Thanks to rising temperatures, glaciers in Greenland are melting faster than scientists previously thought -- and a new NASA video shows how researchers are tracking the feet per day of changes.

For the first time ever, astronomers at The University of New Mexico say they've been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between two supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of light years from Earth - a...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): Using the supersharp radio "vision" of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair...

Technology far exceeded expectations in LISA Pathfinder test --

An angry monster lurks in the shoulder of the Hunter. We're talking about the Red Giant star Betelgeuse, Alpha Orionis in the constellation Orion. Recently, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) gave us an amazing vi...

The main detectors on China's first space observatory, the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), have been powered up as the satellite enters a period of on-orbit testing to collect highly energetic x-rays emitted by b...

An experimental solar array demonstration was jettisoned while the Expedition 52 crew continued preparing the SpaceX Dragon for its release on Sunday. The three crew members also studied how microgravity impacts their bo...

NASA's orbiter Cassini will make a series of decreasing orbits that will end in a fiery death dive into Saturn's atmosphere in September. This deliberate termination of a still serviceable spacecraft is to comply with "p...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have completed the first "science raft" for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a massive telescope designed to capture images of...

(Phys.org)--A new study recently published on arXiv.org reveals that the fossil group galaxy NGC 1132 (also known as UGC 2359) has a disturbed and asymmetrical hot halo. The findings provide new insights into the formati...

A team of three Dutch astronomers from the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University found a new way to form two black holes that orbit each other for quite a while and then merge. Their publication with computer sim...

(Phys.org)--A pair of researchers, one with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel the other with Princeton University in the U.S. has come up with a possible explanation for the inability of space scientists to fin...

Here are six suggestions for where to see the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, whether you're a science lover, wine connoisseur or music fan.

A new mobile app from San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum lets users dig into the science behind the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse.

A student team from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, took top honors last weekend at the 2017 Spaceport America Cup in New Mexico.