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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - With the stunningly beautiful Halloween eve liftoff of the commercial KoreaSat-5A telecomsat payload from the Florida Space Coast, SpaceX matched competitor United Launch Alliance's (ULA) singl...

A new method devised by a team of Chinese and US researchers could lead to accurate estimates on the masses of supermassive black holes. The post New Method for Researching Activity Around Quasars and Black Holes appeare...

A new study by a team of NASA scientists has shown how searching for biosignatures known as atmospheric beacons could aid in the search for Extra-Terrestrial life! The post Using Atmospheric Beacons to Search for Signs o...

The stars are aligning for Idaho--mainly because they're visible.

Back in 2008, I professed my feelings, bared my soul and told all about how I absolutely was in love the International Space Station. Nine and a half years ago when I wrote that article, titled "I 'Heart' the ISS: Ten Re...

"We're in search of molecules formed from fundamental prerequisites to life--specifically molecular nitrogen, which is 78 percent of our atmosphere," said Airapetian, who is a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flig...

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Some exoplanets shine brighter than others in the search for life beyond the solar system. New NASA research proposes a novel approach to sniffing out exoplanet atmospheres. It takes advantage of frequent stellar storms-...

Now in the fifteenth observing campaign of its K2 extended mission, the Kepler Space Telescope is studying more than 23,000 objects located in the direction of the constellation Scorpius. The image below illustrates some...

ESA is offering graphic designers and artists a unique opportunity to feature their work on the rocket carrying the Cheops satellite.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA scientists and engineers have conceived and plan to build an ambitious submillimeter-wave or radio instrument to study the composition of geysers spewing water vapor and icy parti...

Space may seem empty, but it's actually a dynamic place populated with near-invisible matter, and dominated by forces, in particular those created by magnetic fields. Magnetospheres -- the magnetic fields around most pla...

After a five-year, 1.74 billion-mile journey, NASA's Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit in July 2016, to begin its mission to collect data on the structure, atmosphere, and magnetic and gravitational fields of the m...

With liftoff on the horizon, ESA's Aeolus satellite is going through its last round of tests to make sure that this complex mission will work in orbit. Over the next month, it is sitting in a large chamber that has had a...

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan has found evidence showing that condensed aluminum oxide dust surrounding the star W Hydrae plays a key role in accelerating the stellar win...

A new "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" commercial with brand-new footage debuted ago during the World Series Wednesday (Nov. 1) and it brings Luke Skywalker back to his old friend the Millennium Falcon!

Routine--and not-so-routine--housekeeping duties continue for Expedition 53 aboard the International Space Station in preparation for an upcoming Orbital ATK 8 (OA-8) commercial launch targeted for Nov. 11....

Delightful for adults and children alike, Legos are the greatest toy of all-time.

Human Spaceflight image of the week: Testing the Heracles lunar rover

The prevailing view of the universe has just passed a rigorous new test, but the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy remain frustratingly unsolved.

Lance Patrick and his girlfriend, Ashley Blankenship, just announced their baby's gender to the world via a weather-balloon mission to the stratosphere.