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The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), the world's largest galaxy survey, is part of Phase IV of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift surve...

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Interestingly, researchers found that the brain began to prepare the motor areas to respond very early, during initial stimulus presentation, suggesting that we get ready to respond even before we know what the response ...

Today - Rodent Research 6 (RR-6): In support of the on-going RR-6 investigation, today the crew refilled the rodent habitat water supply using the water refill kit and later remove the mice and restocked the rodent habit...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me at the CosmoQuest blog.

As the two companies developing commercial crew systems reiterated that they were on schedule to carry out test flights later this year, a government analysis of schedules concluded those vehicles may not be certified to...

With the deployment of the Arkyd-6 spacecraft, Planetary Resources just took a major step towards making asteroid mining a reality The post Asteroid Mining is Getting Closer to Reality. Planetary Resources Arkyd-6 Satell...

China and Europe are jointly testing new technology that could help satellites peer through clouds and analyze storms.

"Two hundred years from now, people are going to look at what we're doing, and probably laugh and say, 'Why weren't they looking for tachyons, or subspace communications,' or something like that," says Dan Wertheimer, ch...

The GeoCARB satellitewill map the concentrations of key greenhouse gases over the Americas --

Astronomers using ESO's MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very strangely -it is being flung backwards and forwards at speeds of several h...

A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky over southeastern Michigan Tuesday (Jan. 16), dazzling skywatchers lucky enough to see it. Many more felt the earth shake from the meteor's sonic boom, according to media reports...

A feature-length documentary about the first humans to fly to the moon needs the public's help to be ready in time for the mission's 50th anniversary.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is drawing up contingency plans for projects, commercial deals, and staffing that may be adversely affected by Brexit, senior officials said Wednesday.

One Strange Rock, filmed in space and across 45 countries on six continents over the course of more than a year, is a ten-part television series premiering in March on National Geographic Channel. The documentary refocus...

Orbital debris (aka. space junk) is one of the greatest problems facing space agencies today. After 60 years of sending rockets, boosters and satellites into space, the situation in the low Earth orbit (LEO) has become r...

Technology image of the week: Europe's largest vacuum chamber, used for satellite testing, captured by photographer Edgar Martins

The past few weeks have been good for UFO believers. For decades they've clamored for "disclosure"--an admission by the government that it knows of galactic gatecrashers, and that aliens are irrefutably here. This always...

Experiment shows how spacecraft could use stellar signals to navigate in deep space without human instruction --

The European Columbus module is packed up and loaded for transport to the US in this image from 2006. Built in Turin, Italy, and Bremen, Germany, the completed module was shipped to NASA's facilities in Cape Canaveral, F...

Gamma ray bursts, intense explosions of light, are the brightest events ever observed in the universe - lasting no longer than seconds or minutes.

Effective Space, a U.K.-headquartered company developing spacecraft to extend the life of communications satellites, announced Jan. 17 that it has signed its first contract with an undisclosed customer. SpaceNews.com