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Four stars in the night sky have been formally recognised by their Australian Aboriginal names.

"Stunning!" --NASA's Great Space Observatories Team Up to Find & Image the Farthest Galaxy Ever Seen "Most Scientists in the 'Never Aliens' Camp Desperately Want to be Convinced Otherwise" "Mind-Boggling!" --New Non-Biol...

The SBIRS satellites are equipped with powerful scanning and staring infrared sensors that collect data for use by the U.S. military to detect missile launches. SpaceNews.com

The plan is to shift the current ground software architecture to an open-systems platform that the Air Force would own and update with new technology as it becomes available. SpaceNews.com

When Is The Next Eclipse?: A Blue Supermoon Lunar Eclipse is coming. It's a dream scenario for sensationalist websites, who are increasingly one-upping each other on how absolutely amazing they can frame an upcoming nigh...

If a gamma ray sweeps over a planet, all complex life could be annihilated. Gamma ray bursts where more common in the past, and could have prevented intelligent life from evolving in the Milky Way (and other galaxies) fo...

The quest to explore the frontiers of physics will heat up next month in Japan, when beams of high-energy electrons are set to start smashing into their antimatter counterparts at one of the world's premier accelerator l...

I have built a research lab where we look for organic molecules that we find in meteorites, says Aaron Burton. a planetary scientist NASA's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at the Johnson S...

Brazilian astronomers have performed photometric observations of the dwarf nova V2051 Oph during its quiescent period, which revealed important insights into the nature of this object. The results were presented in a pap...

The successful launch of an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) Jan. 11 marked not just the return to flight of the rocket but also major achievements for several of the companies with payloads on board the vehi...

Few things would be a greater honor to King's memory, and there is no greater way for us to also honor ourselves, than to make space-based research as diverse as the world is.

Sun-like stars swirl around the Milky Way's bulge differently based on their composition, according to new research. The find could provide insight into whether a collision helped form the center of our galaxy.

Hydrogen in extreme conditions, like below the cloud tops of Jupiter, starts acting...very strange.

Although bitcoins are bought, sold, and lost more today than ever before, the rate of new bitcoins being created is starting to slow. The reasons behind that are a little complex, but suffice it to say, the closer we get...

This week's episode opens with Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) musing on her current predicament.

Simulating space plasma heating with supercomputers...and in your cup of coffee

Planetary Science Institute: Dark surface features previously considered evidence of subsurface water flow on Mars have now been interpreted as being the result of dry, granular flows, according to a Nature Geoscience pa...

Nobody scours New York's Central Park looking for drugs quite the way Sean Brady does. On a sweltering Thursday, he hops out of a yellow cab, crosses Fifth Avenue, and scurries up a dirt path. Around us, the penetrating ...