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A new study from the University of Oxford has shown that long after humanity is gone, the tardigrade (aka. the "water bear") will still be living. The post Long After Humanity is Gone and the Sun Dies, the Water Bears Wi...

A new study gives the first observational evidence that the southern Amazon rainforest triggers its own rainy season using water vapor from plant leaves. The finding helps explain why deforestation in this region is link...

Hong Kong-based satellite fleet operator AsiaSat warned investors that it is expecting a 28 percent drop in profit for the first half of 2017 due to a trio of losses on top of a steep competition in a highly competitive ...

NASA's newest, slickest communications satellite has been damaged, just three weeks before its planned August launch.

The space domain is recognized now as an increasingly important area for the U.S. military and its allies. It has become abundantly clear that the commercial sector and government leaders must work together to create a m...

The microgravity conditions of the International Space Station (ISS) may hold the key to improving our understanding of how to combat toxic nerve agents such as sarin and VX. That is the hope of Countermeasures Against C...

NASA's new Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission to study the densest observable objects in the universe has begun science operations.

One night three months ago, Rosa Castro finished her dinner, opened her laptop, and uncovered a novel object that was neither planet nor star. Therapist by day and amateur astronomer by night, Castro joined the NASA-fund...

The government of Luxembourg has passed a bill giving companies the rights to space resources they extract from asteroids or other celestial bodies. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: One night three months ago, Rosa Castro finished her dinner, opened her laptop, and uncovered a novel object that was neither planet nor star. Therapist by day and amateur astronomer b...

Star KIC 8462852--"Tabby's Star" named after its discoverer and Kepler astronomer, Tabetha Boyajian---is emitting a transit signature that defies explanation. The luminosity of a star declines at a consistent rate when a...

Space is not empty, nor is it silent. While technically a vacuum, space nonetheless contains energetic charged particles, governed by magnetic and electric fields, and it behaves unlike anything we experience on Earth. I...

In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons - amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds' icy terrain might be like. W...

The fire caused some damage to the roof of the building SpaceX started leasing earlier this year for storage of rocket boosters after landing. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

"Spreading out into space will completely change the future of humanity," says Stephen Hawking. It "may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth".

Today - Japanese Experiment Module Airlock (JEMAL) Operations: Today the crew brought the JEMAL Slide Table into the JEM from the Airlock and replaced the Japanese Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD) on the Slide T...

Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates Warn About Artificial Intelligence Some of the most popular sci-fi movies--2001: A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, The Matrix, Transcendence, Ex Machina, and many others--have be...

A complex coordinated 'dance' between ESA and NASA deep-space tracking stations is following the international Cassini orbiter during its Grand Finale, 1.2 billion km away

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers has performed detailed measurements of the chemical composition of 158 red giant stars in the nearby Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. The study, presented in a paper published Ju...

(Phys.org)--A pair of researchers with Aberystwyth University in the U.K. has used data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory to learn more about how the sun's corona behaves over differing stages of its 11-year cycle. ...

Commercialised flight faster than five times the speed of sound has been brought one step closer, thanks to a successful experimental flight featuring University of Queensland knowhow.