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Some of the largest landmarks in Houston, historic NASA rockets, weathered Hurricane Harvey and are now accessible to the public one week after the storm flooded significant parts of the city.

SETI Institute: From alien megastructures to super-Saturns, all sorts of explanations have been offered for star's weird behavior. Here's where we stand now.

A team of researchers from japan have found evidence of another massive black hole near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy The post Another Monster Black Hole Found in the Milky Way appeared first on Universe Today.

Sky and Space Global, an Australian satellite startup with offices in London, Israel and Poland, successfully sent voice, text and imagery over a trio of prototype cubesats meant to pave the way for a constellation of 20...

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 4:33 pm EDT on Sept. 4, 2017. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of r...

One of NASA's proposed missions, known as the Fast INfrared Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey Explorer (FINESSE), could greatly improve our understanding of extrasolar worlds. If selected for development, the spacecraft will...

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory:

Two Asia-Pacific-based satellite operators have agreed to launch a shared high-throughput satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during the second half of 2019, the companies said today. SpaceNews.com

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Hurricane Harvey seen from the International Space Station

New work from a team of Carnegie scientists (and one Carnegie alumnus) asked whether any gas giant planets could potentially orbit TRAPPIST-1 at distances greater than that of the star's seven known planets....

It’s that time again! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a paper published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Competing spending priorities in the House and Senate could push funding negotiations into December --

By following up on mysterious high-energy sources mapped out by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Netherlands-based Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope has identified a pulsar spinning at more than 42,0...

Europlanet Research Infrastructure: Professor Nicholas Achilleos of University College London (UCL) Physics & Astronomy talks to Europlanet about Cassini's final days and what working on the mission has meant to him prof...

James Bridenstine, a member of Congress, has long pushed for the U.S. to return to the moon --

James Bridenstine, a member of Congress, has long pushed for the United States to return to the Moon --

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: By following up on mysterious high-energy sources mapped out by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Netherlands-based Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope has identified...

"The newly discovered supersized black hole resides in the center of a massive elliptical galaxy, NGC 1600, located in a cosmic backwater, a small grouping of 20 or so galaxies," said lead discoverer Chung-Pei Ma, a Univ...

The primordial soup that sloshed around billions of years ago, and eventually led to first life on our planet, might have been teeming with primal precursors of proteins. Ancestors of the first protein molecules, which a...

This list of famous astronomers includes great scientists in history who mastered many fields and modern astronomers who helped popularize astronomy.