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MDA's $2.4 billion merger with DigitalGlobe is the biggest space acquisition to close so far this year. But MDA Corp. CEO Howard Lance sees the merger as the combination of four companies, not two. That's because MDA and...

NASA's Joe Acaba, Mark Vande Hei, and Randy Bresnik, during 52S Arrival,

Distant planets tell all: A new analysis uses alien worlds' orbital treks to peek inside their stars.

Today: VEG-03 Science Harvest: The crew cut one to three leaves from each plant for consumption and then preserved them in foil and inserted them into cold stowage for science data....

New analyses allow scientists to measure stellar densities using orbiting planets --

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Since the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have been able to look deeper into the cosmic web than ever before. The farther they’ve looked, the deeper back in time they are able to see, and thus lea...

"If we knew that life had started independently in two places in our solar system, then we could be pretty confident that life also got started on some of the tens of billions of planets and moons around other stars... �...

"If we knew that life had started independently in two places in our solar system, then we could be pretty confident that life also got started on some of the tens of billions of planets and moons around other stars... �...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Enough heat to power hydrothermal activity inside Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus for billions of years could be generated through tidal friction if the moon has a highly porous core, a new study finds, working in favour o...

"The Big Bang happened 13.7 billion years ago, and now we are seeing this galaxy from 12.8 billion years ago, so it was forming within the first billion years after the Big Bang," says astrophysicist Min Yun at UMass Amh...

When the United States Olympic snowboard team takes to the snow in South Korea, they will be wearing uniforms appropriate for the 'giant leaps' they will perform.

Astronaut Peggy Whitson has spent more time in space than any other American, and that is only one of the records she holds. Still active with NASA, she hopes to spend even more time in space.

Origins-of-life researchers have hypothesized that a chemical reaction called phosphorylation may have been crucial for the assembly of three key ingredients in early life forms: short strands of nucleotides to store gen...

Astronomers using the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT), which is operated jointly by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, "ptica y Electrónica, report today in Nature ...

Enough heat to power hydrothermal activity inside Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus for billions of years could be generated through tidal friction if the moon has a highly porous core, a new study finds, working in favour o...

"Expecting to find a black hole in every galaxy is sort of like expecting to find a pit inside a peach," explains astronomer Tod Lauer of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson. "With this Hubble observatio...

"Expecting to find a black hole in every galaxy is sort of like expecting to find a pit inside a peach," explains astronomer Tod Lauer of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson. "With this Hubble observatio...

NASA's Kepler K2 Mission Probing 23,000 Objects in Scorpius Field of View --"Ends November 20th" The Alien Observatory --"It's Astonishingly Likely That We're Not the Only Time and Place That an Advance Civilization Has ...

(Phys.org)--As a result of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observations of a microlensing event, astronomers have found an extremely massive alien world circling a star located in the Milky Way's bulge. The newly discover...

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli marks his 100th day in space for the Vita mission.