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An intense "bomb cyclone" is battering the U.S. East Coast today (Jan. 4), with high winds and intense snowfall forecast for the mid-Atlantic and northeastern states. See the latest views from NASA and NOAA here.

Environmental challenges, climate change, water and food security and urban air pollution are all interlinked, yet each is studied separately. This is not a sustainable situation, for anybody anymore. To tackle this, pro...

January 4, 2018. Links to today's 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 c...

Compared to the MEV-1, the MEV-2 will have new bells and whistles. It will be equipped to carry hosted payloads from commercial companies and small satellites that could be deployed for science missions. SpaceNews.com

An internal research and development program using widely available telescopes has evolved into a space situational awareness business for ArianeGroup. SpaceNews.com

As it makes its way towards the asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS-REx mission continues to provide us with breathtaking images of our planet. The post Here’s the Earth and Moon Seen from OSIRIS-REx appeared first on Universe ...

Like Earth, space has weather. Except instead of swirling winds and downpours of precipitation, space weather is defined by shifting electric and magnetic fields and rains of charged particles. At the very beginning of s...

Plans to return to the Moon are getting serious. Last month, US President Donald Trump declared that the next time US astronauts blast off, they will be headed to our rocky satellite. In September, the European Space Age...

An international team of astronomers has revealed an 'astonishing' overabundance of massive stars in a neighbouring galaxy.

Primary school students in Indianapolis will speak live with astronauts living and working on the International Space Station at 12:15 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 11.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Astronomers are hopeful that the powerful infrared capability of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will resolve a puzzle as fundamental as stargazing itself--what...

"There's three strategic trends that I see in space." General Jay Raymond, Commander of Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs. He recently visited Scientific American to talk about Space Command, which is responsib...

Being able to identify microbes in real time aboard the International Space Station, without having to send them back to Earth for identification first, would be revolutionary for the world of microbiology and space expl...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Astronomers are hopeful that the powerful infrared capability of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will resolve a puzzle as fu...

One explanation "that no one talks about but is in the back of everyone's mind," is biological activity, says Mike Mumma, planetary scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center. "You'd expect life to be seasonal." From the p...

The bottom of the ocean is more of a "sunken place" than it used to be.

Astronomers have found a new eclipsing binary system by analyzing archival survey data and conducting follow-up radial velocity measurements. The newly found binary, designated SDSSJ1156-0207, is composed of two M-dwarf ...

NASA is marking its 60th anniversary with a new commemorative logo. The U.S. aviation and space agency revealed the official logo, which it described as showing "how NASA is building on its historic past to soar toward a...

Mars may have formed in what today is the Asteroid Belt, roughly one and a half times as far from the sun as its current position, before migrating to its present location.

X-ray light from the Perseus cluster of galaxies may finally reveal the true nature of one of the most mysterious substances in the cosmos: dark matter.

Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge: A group of Cambridge astronomers, including Anthony Lasenby from the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and Kavli Institute for Cosmology, have made the first investigation of the sens...

A recent report recommends that NASA develop transition plans and make use of alternative platforms to carry out critical microgravity research.