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NASA will fly you to the sun--or at least your name.

NASA has selected 128 proposals from American small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase II of its 2017 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. These selections support NASA's future space ex...

Jupiter was likely the first planet to take shape in our solar system. It may have spent millions and millions of years wandering around the system and destroyed early generations of planets before settling into a peacef...

Members of the House space subcommittee raised concerns about elements of NASA's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal during a March 7 hearing, from the cancellation of a space telescope to restructuring of the agency's tech...

Jupiter's poles are blanketed by geometric clusters of cyclones and its atmosphere is deeper than scientists suspected.

Two stars are caught in a unique relationship. The larger red giant star sheds material which its companion neutron star consumes, producing x-rays as a result. The post Astronomers See A Dead Star Come Back To Life Than...

Lunar researchers want to take advantage of Trump administration’s political interest --

Breakthrough measurements of Jupiter’s hidden interior could revolutionize our understanding of giant planets --

A United Kingdom based researcher stunned the scientific community this week with claims NASA has withheld crucial evidence of life on the Red Planet. Dr Barry DiGregorio, from the University of Buckingham, claims in a r...

A recent study by a team of German scientists has demonstrated that a certain strain of Earth bacteria could survive on Enceladus The post Scientists Find that Earth Bacteria Could Thrive on Enceladus appeared first on U...

"Alma has been really wonderful in allowing us to image the distribution of organics in protoplanetary discs,' said Harvard University astrochemist Karin -berg. 'It is amazing that we can actually take images of the orga...

The surge of new space companies in the last few years has impressed even veteran industry observers. SpaceNews.com

Imagine an object moving at super-sonic speed. This object, as it moves through a medium, causes the material in the medium to pile up, compress, and heat up. The result is a type of shock wave, known as a bow shock.

With the unprecedented promise that the EU-supported EISCAT3D radar infrastructure holds for investigation into near-earth space phenomena, system accuracy and efficiency is paramount. The recently closed EISCAT3D_PfP pr...

The devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and the Tōhoku earthquake in Japan in 2011 highlighted some of the worst-case scenarios for natural disasters. But humanity has not had to deal with a cataclysmic volcanic di...

Scientists looking at the sky see space trailing behind Earth appearing colder than space up ahead, but it's not clear if that's only the Doppler effect or an observation of a true difference in CMB temperature. It's a p...

Scientists have long observed an apparent gradient in the cosmic microwave background but have been unable to determine how much is real and how much is perceived. USC Dornsife researchers appear to have found a way to a...

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Jules Verne!

This image was originally meant to track the movement of sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, but what's on the ground in between the dunes is just as interesting!

Last week, astronomers from Arizona State University and MIT announced that they had detected light from the Universe's "Cosmic Dawn."

Google has partnered with the military to enhance surveillance drone software.