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Scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) joined in the recent international effort to observe -- and create a detailed profile of -- the first known large object from interstellar spa...

Data collected by the Cassini spacecraft, before it was deliberately crashed into Saturn's atmosphere in September 2017, show that the planet's illustrious rings are casting a shadow in ionized particles over the planet....

President Donald Trump is sending astronauts back to the Moon.

On Dec. 11, 2017, six researchers discussed initial findings based on observations of the Sun and on Earth gathered during the solar eclipse that stretched across North America on Aug. 21, 2017. Ranging from new informat...

Space Age hand-me-downs are soaring to a whole new level.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

In a breathtaking followup to the mid-October discovery of our first detection of a strange 800 meters long by 80 wide interstellar visitor, the world's scientific community is initiating a probe to see if it's an ancien...

NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage of the Space Policy Directive 1 signing ceremony at the White House at 3 p.m. EST today.

"We really had an eye to future use with exoplanets for a reason," said Chris Reinhard, assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. "It's possible that the atmospheric methane models t...

The chemical composition of a planetary body reflects its starting conditions modified by numerous processes during its formation and geological evolution....

"If we want to know how Earth's systems work, what's expected and what's normal, we need to look to the past," and the fossil record is the best measure of ecosystem stability. As we already begin to face extinctions and...

Traditionally, most star names used by astronomers have come from Arabic, Greek, or Latin origins. Now, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Division C Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) has formally approved 86 ne...

"We're Re-thinking the Evolution of the Universe" --13-Billion-Year Voyage of the Light from Oldest Most Massive Known Black Hole "Little Foot" Walking on Earth 3.6 Million Years Ago--"Most Complete Fossil of Human Ances...

The private spaceflight company Rocket Lab aborted a scheduled test launch of its small-scale Electron rocket today (Dec. 11), just 2 seconds before liftoff.

Harrison Schmitt went for a walk on Dec. 11, 1972. Forty-five years later, he is almost ready to share his diary of that day on the moon.

University of Leeds researchers have mathematically examined plasma jets from supermassive black holes to determine why certain types of jets disintegrate into huge plumes.

America's space shuttles were NASA's orbital workhorses.

Today - Lighting Effects: A 52S crewmember logged into the sleep log application and provided a sleep log entry to track his daily sleep patterns and wakefulness....

IAU Press Releases:

December 11, 2017: Today's links to headline stories from around the world on the threats, opportunities, and dangers facing our fragile planet --along with an occasional dash of humor, popular culture, and an intriguing...

December 11, 2017: Today's links to headline stories from around the world on the threats, opportunities, and dangers facing our fragile planet --along with an occasional dash of humor, popular culture, and an intriguing...

(Phys.org)--Astronomers have found a dozen new faint Herbig-Haro objects in the dark nebula LDN 673 by employing a novel color-composite imaging method. The discovery, reported in a paper published December 1 on the arXi...