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Ellen Stofan was 8 years old when Apollo 11 landed astronauts on the moon. Now almost 50 years later, she has been chosen to lead the Smithsonian museum entrusted with that mission's artifacts, filling a role first held ...

I’m a huge fan of the Kerbal Space Program. I’m not great at it, but I’m a huge fan. In fact, I’ve said on many occasions that I’ve learned more about orbital mechanics from this game than I have from almost 20...

The longtime director of NASA's planetary science division will become the agency's next chief scientist next month, NASA announced April 10. SpaceNews.com

Media accreditation now is open to cover the launch of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission - twin satellites that constitute the agency's latest Earth-observing mission.

According to a new study, Proxima Centauri experiences superflare activity that would likely render its exoplanet (Proxima b) uninhabitable The post Proxima Centauri Just Released a Flare so Powerful it was Visible to th...

The Defense Science Board cited SpaceX as an example of a company that can meet stringent military requirements and still use agile software development methods. SpaceNews.com

"Filaments are this integral part of the cosmic web, though it's unclear what is the relationship between the underlying dark matter and the filaments," said Simone Ferraro, one of the study's authors who is a Miller pos...

I grew up on a small island off the West Coast of Canada, with the darkest skies you could hope for. Although I live in a small town now, with some light pollution, I can still see the Milky Way from my backyard. But for...

"We think these clusters formed with hundreds to thousands of black holes that rapidly sank down in the center," says Carl Rodriguez, a Pappalardo fellow in MIT's Department of Physics and the Kavli Institute for Astroph...

When LIGO's twin detectors first picked up faint wobbles in their respective, identical mirrors, the signal didn't just provide first direct detection of gravitational waves--it also confirmed the existence of stellar bi...

As artificial intelligence (AI) allows machines to become more like humans, will they experience similar psychological quirks such as hallucinations or depression? And might this be a good thing? Last month, reports toda...

The U.K. Space Industry Act, passed last month, aims to "future-proof" the country's space sector as it faces the challenging Brexit period while striving to become a major global space player. SpaceNews.com

The Enterprise's original captain is reportedly joining the cast of Star Trek: Discovery.

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) launched in September 2013. Here is everything you need to know about it.

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Gone in a cosmic flash: a team of astronomers found 72 very bright, but quick events in a recent survey and are still struggling to explain their origin. The researchers found the largest number of these quick events to ...

Why Perth scientists are hoping to score asteroid fragments brought back to Earth by an ambitious space mission.

The magnetic field is arguably one of the most mysterious features of our planet. ESA's Swarm mission is continually yielding more insight into how our protective shield is generated, how it behaves and how it is changin...

The H.E.S.S. telescopes have surveyed the Milky Way for the past 15 years searching for sources of gamma radiation. The H.E.S.S. collaboration includes scientists of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Uni...

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When stars reach the end of their main sequence, they undergo a gravitational collapse, ejecting their outermost layers in a supernova explosion. What remains afterward is a dense, spinning core primarily made up of neut...

University of Saskatchewan researcher Lindsay Goodwin has developed a new way to measure the impact of solar activity on the ionosphere as indicated by northern lights and geomagnetic storms. The ionosphere is the upper ...