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SpaceX just released a spectacular video of the Falcon Heavy standing at Kennedy Space Center's fabled Pad 39A ahead of its planned liftoff later this month.

Astronomers have presented the initial results of the Large Impact of Magnetic Fields on the Evolution of Hot Stars (LIFE) project. Among determining fundamental parameters of 15 stars, they found that two of them have m...

Scientists use satellite images to monitor the conditions of forests, crops and the environment, but their research relies on those images accurately measuring the light being reflected from Earth.

At first glance, it would seem to be impossible to look inside a star. An international team of astronomers, under the leadership of Earl Bellinger and Saskia Hekker of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research ...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) New NASA research helps improve our understanding of how electrons move through the complex region around Earth -- information that will help untangle how such particle acrobatics affec...

NASA has enacted new policies intended to streamline the management of low-cost science missions with the highest tolerance for risk. SpaceNews.com

"Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence," said theorist Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithson...

Call it whatever you like--a blue red moon, a purple moon, a blood moon--but the moon will be a special sight on Jan. 31.

Roper: The world is changing rapidly due to the global spread of commercial technologies, and the Pentagon has been slow to adjust to that reality. SpaceNews.com

The space high above Earth may seem empty, but it's a carnival packed with magnetic field lines and high-energy particles. This region is known as the magnetosphere and, every day, charged particles put on a show as they...

Today - Synthetic Bone BioCell Operations: The crew completed microscopy operations for Synthetic Bone and then took a sample from each well on the Synthetic Bone Multiwell BioCell and exchanged the fluids with media in ...

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January 3, 2018 : 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 conspira...

Las Cumbres Observatory: A team of more than 100 researchers, led by LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Assistant Professor Tabetha Boyajian, is one step closer to solving the mystery behind the "most mysterious star ...

Even so, the strange saga of Tabby’s Star is far from over --

Join the StarTalk All-Stars as they investigate exoplanets in this mashup episode. To start, SETI Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and Penn State astronomer Jason T. Wright explore Proxima b, our...

"Some strange signals have been found, but it's hard to confirm their origins, because these signals do not repeat," says Li Di, chief scientist of China's new FAST Radio telescope. "We look for not only television signa...

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst floats inside the International Space Station's European Columbus laboratory. The image was taken during his first flight in 2014....

There are more answers to be found. "This latest research rules out alien megastructures, but it raises the plausibility of other phenomena being behind the dimming," says Penn State astrophysicist, Jason Wright. "There ...

Alien Megastructures Don't Explain Tabby's Star...

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A team of more than 200 researchers, including Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Assistant Professor Jason Wright and led by Louisiana State University's Tabetha Boyajian, is one step closer to solving ...