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A new study from Brown University reveals that there may be a lot more surface ice on Mercury than previously thought The post More Surface Ice on Mercury than Previously Thought, says New Study appeared first on Univers...

This week will see the second ESA bedrest study investigating a mix of antioxidants and vitamins that could help astronauts to combat the side effects of living in space. Ten volunteers will lie in beds with the head end...

The search for biology on neighbor planet Mars won't play out like a Hollywood movie starring little green men. Rather, many scientists agree if there was life on the Red Planet, it probably will present itself as fossil...

The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite, a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency can measure rainfall from space....

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope system have discovered the closest pair of supermassive black holes yet fou...

In 1961, an American astronaut reached space for the first time and soared through the heavens in a gumdrop-shaped capsule.

A new study hints that the most energetic particles ever seen come from far beyond the Milky Way. --

"In the time it takes you to drink a cup of coffee, hundreds of FRBs may have gone off somewhere in the Universe," said Avi Loeb, who recently speculated that these signals may be signals from extraterrestrial civilizati...

When fast radio bursts, or FRBs, were first detected in 2001, astronomers had never seen anything like them before. Since then, astronomers have found a couple of dozen FRBs, but they still don't know what causes these r...

Students at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington will speak with a NASA astronaut living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 12:25 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 27, ...

In September 2016, just before the asteroid 288P made its closest approach to the Sun, it was close enough to Earth to allow astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the intriguing characteristics of an un...

The objects are separated by less than one light year—the most compact pairing of supermassive black holes ever seen --

An American spy satellite will launch on a clandestine mission early Friday (Sept. 22), and you can follow the spaceflight action live. Liftoff is set for 1:38 a.m. EDT (0538 GMT; 10:38 p.m. local California time).

      

Astrophysicist Paul Davies at Arizona State University suggests that advanced technology might not even be made of matter. That it might have no fixed size or shape; have no well-defined boundaries. Is dynamical on all s...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Cambridge, MA - When fast radio bursts, or FRBs, were first detected in 2001, astronomers had never seen anything like them before. Since then, astronomers have found a couple...

The differentiation of oceanic and continental crust could date back 3.5 billion years.

When Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) passed just 140,000 kilometres from Mars on 19th October 2014, depositing a large amount of debris in the martian atmosphere, space agencies coordinated multiple spacecraft to witness...

Deep-sea observatory tests technologies for eventual exploration of Europa or other icy moons --

Penn State LIGO physicists are members of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration to detect and characterize gravitational waves. The collaboration now is completing a very exciting Second Observing Run that is drawing to a close o...

The nominee to be the next administrator of NASA says that he believes the agency's top challenges include maintaining "consistency and constancy of purpose" that can support long-term plans, while building up internatio...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is zooming through the outer solar system with its eyes open once again.