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Early this morning (Sept. 6) the sun released two powerful solar flares -- the second was the most powerful in more than a decade.

Students at Laing Middle School in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, which is near Charleston, will speak with a NASA astronaut living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 10:20 a.m. EDT Fr...

"If the LHC doesn't have enough power to uncover new physics, it's all over for my generation of physicists!" says Aurelio Bay at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's Laboratory for High Energy Physics. "We wil...

NASA has selected 16 companies to provide a diverse range of competitive task-order contracts for serving the research and engineering products and services needs of the International Space Station.

The X-class flare was the most powerful seen since 2006, and created radio blackouts on Earth --

It's a mystery that's puzzled astronomers for years. Which came first, supermassive black holes or the galaxies that surround them? The post Supermassive Black Holes or Their Galaxies? Which Came First? appeared first on...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Based on data provided by the Gaia mission, a new study has indicated when close encounters will take place between our Sun and other stars in the future. The post Now We Know When Stars Will Be Passing Through the Oort ...

Scientists on NASA's Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter's polar regions that contribute to the giant planet's powerful aurora - only not in ways the researchers expected.

NASA just observed two powerful flares emitted off the Sun. Now's your chance to see some auroras, if the full Moon doesn't wreck the view. The post Big Solar Storm Coming Our Way, Now’s Your Chance to See Auroras appe...

Florence, an asteroid that came within 4.4 million miles (7.0 million kilometers) of Earth last week, has two small moons, according to radar images obtained by NASA.

For decades, as astronomers have imagined advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, they categorized such worlds by the amount of energy their inhabitants might conceivably be able to harness and use. They sorted the hypo...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

The Rosetta space probe discovered a large amount of organic material in the nucleus of comet 'Chury.' In an article published by MNRAS on Aug. 31, 2017, two French researchers advance the theory that this matter has its...

Officials in Cape Canaveral, Florida, are forecasting only a 50 percent chance of acceptable weather for Thursday's launch, which is expected to occur sometime between 9:00 a.m. and 3 p.m. Eastern. SpaceNews.com

The threat from the Category 5 storm has shuttered the world’s second-largest radio telescope until further notice --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The sun emitted two significant solar flares on the morning of Sept. 6, 2017. The first peaked at 5:10 a.m. EDT and the second, larger flare, peaked at 8:02 a.m. EDT. NASA's Solar Dyna...

A solar flare and potential coronal mass ejection could black out some communications.

Record-setting Hurricane Irma barreled over the Caribbean islands of St. Martin, St. Barthelemy and Anguilla early Wednesday, destroying buildings and causing major flooding. The US National Hurricane Center listed the C...

NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer, who returned to Earth on Sept. 2 after spending months aboard the International Space Station, will take part in a news conference to discuss their mission at 11 a.m. EDT o...

Technology image of the week: the Large European Acoustic Facility, built to blast satellites with simulated launch noise, will be on view during next month's ESA Open Day in the Netherlands

The discovery of the largest timing irregularity yet observed in a pulsar is the first confirmation that pulsars in binary systems exhibit the strange phenomenon known as a 'glitch'. The study is published in the journal...