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Using gravitational microlensing technique, an international group of astronomers has found a new substellar system whose composition remains a puzzle. The newly detected system, designated MOA-2015-BLG-337L, may consist...

Planet Earth and the life it contains wouldn't exist if it weren't for the sun. But the sun also poses a serious threat to life, by constantly spewing harmful radiation into the solar system.

For centuries, human beings have wondered about the possibility of other Earths orbiting distant stars. Perhaps some of these alien worlds would harbor strange forms of life or have unique and telling histories or future...

A new study by a team of over 200 international scientists has revealed how a magnetar - a special class of neutron star - has awakened after three years of being dormant. The post A Magnetar Just Woke Up After Three Yea...

A new company is developing a hybrid rocket-balloon system to launch microsatellites cheaply from high altitude. The post Launching Rockets from Balloons is About to be a Thing, But We Need a Better Name than “Rockoons...

The U.S. military will need "resilient information networks" to ensure enemies are not able to steer signals for nefarious purposes. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX has set May 19 as the launch date for a Falcon 9 mission that will carry satellites for commercial fleet operator Iridium and a joint mission for NASA and Germany, according to Iridium. SpaceNews.com

Using data from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova program, a team of astronomers recently found 72 supernovae, the largest number discovered to date The post Astronomers Just Found 72 Stellar Explosions, but Don’t Know ...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is leaving Facebook out of growing concern for the carelessness with which Facebook and other Internet companies treat the private information of users. Wozniak said he'd rather pay for Fac...

Today - Mobile Servicing System (MSS) SpX-14 Operations: Overnight, the Robotics ground controllers released the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) from the SpaceX-14 Dragon Flight Releasable Grapple Fixture...

The Atlas V is a type of rocket that is commonly used for interplanetary missions, military payloads and cargo runs to the International Space Station.

NASA's Apollo spacecraft illustrates the "E" in "STEM" on a set of four new U.S. postage stamps. The STEM Education stamps depict Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. The Engineering stamp features Apollo as a "pos...

Defense and IT company Leidos triumphed over competitor Raytheon this week in a competition to build a hosted payload for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration for honing GPS signals. SpaceNews.com

Instead of approaching the origins-of-life puzzle from a chemistry perspective, scientists at MIT are looking at it from a planetary perspective, attempting to identify the actual conditions that might have existed on ea...

The HESS international collaboration, to which CNRS and CEA contribute, has published the results of fifteen years of gamma ray observations of the Milky Way. Its telescopes installed in Namibia have studied populations ...

Armed with a deeper understanding of Kepler's quirks, the astronomers argue they can more easily flag where and how the spacecraft's minor defects could compromise data. The authors used this approach to re-vet Kepler's ...

"We're Entering Uncharted Territory" --The Exoplanet Revolution May Reveal that Rise of Civilizations May Not be Unusual "Planet Earth Report" --"Humans Have Been Making Glass for Millennia and We Still Don't Have a Good...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Sun, scheduled for July 31, 2018.

Astronomers are racing to figure out what causes powerful bursts of radio light in the distant cosmos --

Our sister planet Venus is a dynamic and unusual place. Strong winds swirl around the planet, dragging thick layers of cloud with them as they go. These fierce winds move so speedily that they display 'super-rotation': E...

Cataclysmic variable stars (CVs) are white dwarf stars that are accreting from an orbiting, low mass binary companion star. The accretion is facilitated by the proximity of the stars; typical orbital periods range from a...

This image is packed full of galaxies! A keen eye can spot exquisite elliptical galaxies and spectacular spirals, seen at various orientations: edge-on with the plane of the galaxy visible, face-on to show off magnificen...