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After an amateur astronomer recorded observations of a satellite in high Earth orbit on Jan. 20, 2018, his initial research suggested it was the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE)--a NASA missio...

NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission powered on the GOLD instrument for the first time after launch on Jan. 28, 7:23 p.m. EST.

During a spacewalk on Jan. 23, 2018, Expedition 54 flight engineers Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle replaced a Latching End Effector (LEE-B) on the Canadarm2 robotic arm....

"Working memory is the sketchpad of consciousness, and it is under our control. We choose what to think about," MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller. "You choose when to clear out working memory and choose when to forget about...

An fascinating exploration by futurist John Michael Godier of ten of the most disturbing solutions to the Fermi Paradox, or the question of are we alone and if not, where are they. Image credit: With thanks to artist And...

Sky-gazers are in for a rare treat Wednesday, Jan. 31, when three celestial events combine to create a super blue blood moon. NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage of the celestial spectacle...

The moon is providing a rare triple treat this week.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Since their discovery in 1963, astronomical objects called quasars have been among our most powerful probes of the early Universe. Initially seen as mysterious sources of extreme luminosity, quasars are now known to be s...

Teachers from across the nation will speak with a NASA astronaut living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 9:35 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 1.

Scientists at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have pioneered the use of GPU-accelerated deep learning for rapid detection and charact...

Space Science Image of the Week: Next to the brightest star in the night sky lies a cluster of stars discovered by ESA's Gaia satellite

"Evolutionary Leap?" AI is Mimicing the Human Brain --"But Several Orders of Magnitude Faster and More Efficiently" China Creates a Laser of Mind-Boggling Power --"Could Rip Space Asunder, Breaking the Vacuum" "Signs of ...

ESA's next mission, the miniature GomX-4B, includes a piggyback experiment to test how well everyday commercial computer memories perform in the radiation-soaked environment of space.

An amateur astronomer appears to have made contact with the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite, which lost contact with NASA in 2005.

Using ESA's Herschel telescope a team of Chinese researchers has performed analysis of the interstellar medium in the early-type galaxy NGC 3665. The study offers insights into physical properties of the matter between i...

Satellite network operator Quika Ltd. is launching an "entirely free" internet service this spring in Afghanistan and Iraq and plans to reach nearly half of all African nations this summer. SpaceNews.com

Planning to watch the total lunar eclipse on Jan. 31? This guide describes the distinct phases of the eclipse, and when they'll occur in your area.

Roscosmos, formed in 1992, came after decades of Soviet experience in space. Roscosmos is a large contributor to the International Space Station.

In the late 1990s, theoretical physicists uncovered a remarkable connection between two seemingly unrelated concepts in theoretical physics.

This may be the reason experiments can’t agree on the neutron lifetime, according to a new idea --

The Xinjiang Qitai 110-meter Radio Telescope -- QTT, for short -- could help advance research on dark matter, gravitational waves, and extraterrestrial intelligence.