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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected the faint molecular fingerprint of methyl chloride - a chemical commonly produced by industrial and biological processes here on Ear...

This sequence of color-enhanced images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA's Juno spacecraft as it swoops by Jupiter. The images were obtained by JunoCam.

Our own Matt Williams has his first published novel out, the Cronian Incident. A mystery novel based on the future human exploration of the Solar System. The post Matt William’s New Sci-Fi Book is Out: The Cronian Inci...

After re-examining old data from the Mars Odyssey mission, a team of scientists has found evidence for the presence of subsurface water ice on Mars The post Old Mars Odyssey Data Indicates Presence of Ice Around Martian ...

"Finding the organohalogen Freon-40 near these young, Sun-like stars was surprising," said Edith Fayolle, a researcher with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the USA, and lead...

"Our findings suggest that the Anthropocene should follow on from the Holocene Epoch that has seen 11.7 thousand years of relative environmental stability, since the retreat of the last Ice Age, as we enter a more unstab...

"We've never had an opportunity to look at a metal world, so this is brand new exploration in the classic style of NASA," says David Oh, the mission's lead project systems engineer. NASA is testing a leading-edge propuls...

Ancient Mars may have been warmed by bursts of methane trapped under its surface, a new study finds -- which could help explain past episodes of warmer, wetter climate on the otherwise freezing Red Planet.

Organic molecules once thought to be produced only by life-forms have been found in two separate regions of space.

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A giant elliptical galaxy, about ten times larger than the Milky Way, observed by the Hubble Space Telescope harbors more than 30,000 globular clusters, which according to astronomer Rosanne DiStefano at the Harvard-Smit...

The universe is not only expanding - it is accelerating outward, driven by what is commonly referred to as "dark energy." The term is a poetic analogy to label for dark matter, the mysterious material that dominates the ...

(Phys.org)--A team of astronomers from Mexico has lately conducted a kinematics study of a supernova remnant in the Milky Way galaxy known as G109.1-1.0 (or CTB 109). The new research reveals crucial insights into basic ...

On 18 September 2017, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli shot this beautiful time-lapse showing the moon rising above the Earth's horizon together with Mercury, Mars, the star Regulus, and Venus.

Small satellites are used mainly to monitor Norwegian territorial waters. However, the scope of applications will widen in the future, and researchers believe that Norway has the expertise to exploit the commercial oppor...

Elon Musk has a plan, and it's about as audacious as they come. Not content with living on our pale blue dot, Musk and his company SpaceX want to colonize Mars, fast. They say they'll send a duo of supply ships to the re...

The dream of a human habitat in orbit about the moon came a step closer on September 27, when NASA and the Russian space agency (Roscosmos) signed up to a common vision for future human exploration. The project, a follow...

In the center of a rich cluster of galaxies located in the direction of the constellation of Coma Berenices, lies a galaxy surrounded by a swarm of star clusters. NGC 4874 is a giant elliptical galaxy, about ten times la...

Life on early Earth seems to have begun with a paradox: while life needs water as a solvent, the essential chemical backbones of early life-forming molecules fall apart in water. Our universal solvent, it turns out, can ...

Researchers on the flying observatory SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, are preparing for a two-minute opportunity to study the atmosphere of Neptune's moon Triton as it casts a faint shadow on...

The universe is not only expanding - it is accelerating outward, driven by what is commonly referred to as "dark energy." The term is a poetic analogy to label for dark matter, the mysterious material that dominates the ...

ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration: On 18 September 2017, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli shot this beautiful time-lapse showing the Moon rising above the Earth's horizon together with Mercury, Mars, the star Regulus, and...