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The clouds in Uranus' upper atmosphere are composed largely of hydrogen sulfide, the molecule that makes rotten eggs so stinky, a new study suggests.

Here's the numerical and cosmic gymnastics Meade used to come up with today's apocalypse -- one that, of course, will not come to be.

Artificial intelligence is giving scientists new hope for studying the habitability of planets, in a study from astronomers Chris Lam and David Kipping. Their work looks at so-called "Tatooines," and uses machine learnin...

In the past few decades, there has been an explosion in the number of extra-solar planets that have been discovered. As of April 1st, 2018, a total of 3,758 exoplanets have been confirmed in 2,808 systems, with 627 syste...

The Aristarchus plateau is an area of the Moon ripe for future exploration due to the diversity of its impact and volcanic materials....

NASA's new boss is already getting cheers from space.

A trio of islands that are part of the volcanic ten-island nation of Cape Verde is pictured off the northwestern coast of Africa as the International Space Station orbited over the Atlantic Ocean....

The Tasmania Fire Service webpage shows that all fires captured in this Aqua image from April 20, 2018 are, in fact, fires deliberately set for land management....

USD Kernan: "we really haven't taken all the advantage we can of technology." SpaceNews.com

Welcome to the 558th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. We have a fantastic roundup today, so now, o...

An international team of scientists has developed the DARKNESS camera, which will allow astronomers to directly study planets around nearby stars. The post The DARKNESS Instrument Will Block Stars and Reveal Their Planet...

In the months preceding the launch of Avanti's Hylas-4 satellite, the British operators didn't mince words when it described the importance of a successful mission as "critical." SpaceNews.com

The smooth "flow" of time is an illusion, that "The events of the world do not form an orderly queue like the English, they crowd around chaotically like the Italians," says Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicis...

"Our Milky Way is more than 13 billion years old, so it is not young anymore, but the galaxy still has both a central bulge of old stars and spiral arms of young stars," said Matthew Colless from Australia National...  ...

A machine learning method called "deep learning," which has been widely used in face recognition and other image- and speech-recognition applications, has shown promise in helping astronomers analyze images of galaxies a...

Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive odor, permeates the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus - as has been long debated, but never definitively proven. Based on sensitive spectroscopic obs...

A new international study involving The Australian National University (ANU) and The University of Sydney has found that galaxies grow bigger and puffier as they age.

ESO Supernova:

The outside of the International Space Station is a harsh environment but scientists are taking advantage of the extreme conditions to conduct advanced space research....

"When most of us think of DNA, we think of the double helix," says Associate Professor Daniel Christ (Head, Antibody Therapeutics Lab, Garvan) who co-led the research. "This new research reminds us that totally different...

Meet our new space explorers as they begin their journey to Mercury ...via Amsterdam airport and Europe's spaceport in Kourou

Astronauts Scott Altman and Tom Jones are no strangers to seeing their names included among the stars. The two became the 96th and 97th NASA veterans to be inducted into U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space C...