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Fresh insight into how stars are formed is challenging scientists' understanding of the Universe.

NASA's Curiosity rover is analyzing drilled samples on Mars in one of its onboard labs for the first time in more than a year.

Today - EXPRESS Rack-3 Improved Payload Ethernet Hub Gateway (iPEHG) and Veggie: The crew rotated EXPRESS Rack 3 down in the Columbus module today, installed an iPEHG and then rotated the rack back up....

NASA's Curiosity rover is analyzing drilled samples on Mars in one of its onboard labs for the first time in more than a year....

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Is there any way we can hope to communicate with aliens? Will they have a concept of language as we understand it, or something even more alien? The post Language in the Cosmos I: Is Universal Grammar Really Universal? a...

The media and public are invited to ask questions during a live discussion at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 7, on new science results from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.

Nature speaks to linguist Sheri Wells-Jensen who co-hosted a workshop about the challenges of communicating with extraterrestrials. Wells-Jensen is fascinated by languages no one has ever heard -- those that might be spo...

People need to understand the technology’s limitations to avoid misinterpreting what they see --

Globular clusters age has been revised following research into the age of binary star systems within the clusters, with both thought to have been born at the same time. Findings may change understanding of how the Milky ...

A Falcon 9 rocket with a used first stage successfully launched the SES-12 commercial communications satellite from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station early this morning (June 4).

Demand for fossil fuels will decline in the near future with major macroeconomic and geopolitical consequences: "Until now, observers mostly paid attention to the likely effectiveness of climate policies, but not to the ...

Globular clusters could be up to 4 billion years younger than previously thought, new research led by the University of Warwick has found.

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"By treating a mathematical process as if it were a thought process, and either trying to mimic that process ourselves or merely accepting the results, we are in danger of losing the capacity that has been the essence of...

SpaceX has launched another satellite for a Luxembourg communication company. But it ditched the recycled booster in the Atlantic following liftoff.

This abstract image is a preview of the instrumental power that will be unleashed once the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will be in space.

A team of researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been awarded NASA funding as part of a large, five-year-long U.S. collaboration to fly an ultra-long duration balloon mission with three innovati...

The Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite has measured sulphur dioxide in the plume spewing from the Fuego volcano in Guatemala

When manmade probes finally reach other stars, they will not be powered by rockets. Instead, they may be riding on a gossamer-thin sail that is being blasted by a giant laser beam. Harry Atwater, Howard Hughes Professor ...

Supermassive black holes at the nuclei of most galaxies, including our Milky Way, develop gradually as material accretes onto the seed black hole. The physical processes that drive this growth - the so-called feeding and...

Using NASA's Kepler spacecraft, an international group of astronomers has discovered a doubly eclipsing, bound quadruple star system. The newly found system, designated EPIC 219217635, consists of stars similar in size t...