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According to a new study by a team of astronomers, globular clusters are several billion years younger than previously thought. The post Globular Clusters Might not be as Old as Astronomers Thought. Like, Billions of Yea...

What happens when the solar wind suddenly starts to blow significantly harder? According to two recent studies, the boundaries of our entire solar system balloon outward--and an analysis of particles rebounding off of it...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is back "awake" and being prepared for the farthest planetary encounter in history - a New Year's Day 2019 flyby of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has cleared Northrop Grumman's $7.8 billion purchase of defense and space contractor Orbital ATK. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

A new technique for estimating the mass of galaxies promises more reliable results, especially when applied to large datasets generated by current and future surveys, according to a research team led by Ekta Patel at the...

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder finds that violent crashes may be more effective at activating black holes than more peaceful mergers.

A new study by researchers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics indicates that the chemicals necessary for life as we know it might be limited on Europa and other "ocean worlds". The post Are There Enough...

A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Shaunna Morrison and including Bob Hazen have revealed the mineralogy of Mars at an unprecedented scale, which will help them understand the planet's geologic history and habitabili...

Several large telecommunications companies have proposed plans to provide global broadband services by launching hundreds and even thousands of satellites into orbit. Although broadband for everyone sounds like a great i...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

"The latest debate over the ISS is yet another reminder that the end of this mission can't be delayed forever. There will come a time when the United States will no longer be able to keep pushing the deadline any...   ...

It's not easy to steer spacecraft in the frictionless environment of space, as the latest episode of "Spacing Out with the Everyday Astronaut" shows.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is back "awake" and being prepared for the farthest planetary encounter in history - a New Year's Day 2019 flyby of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. The 165-day hibernation th...

The new Spanish Prime Ministerhas announced his intention to appointSpanish ESA astronaut Pedro Duque as Minister for Science, Innovation and Universities.

Whether Martian life has ever existed is still unknown. No compelling evidence for it has been found. When Curiosity landed in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 the mission's main goal was to determine whether the area ever offe...

Up for a challenge? Planetary action is certainly heating up this summer: Jupiter passed opposition last month, Saturn does so in June, and Mars reaches favorable viewing next month. And with dazzling Venus in the west a...

Scientists have long known that Jupiter is a stormy place. But since NASA's recently extended Juno probe reached the solar system's largest planet last July, they've found it to be a far more tempestuous place than they ...

Sixty years after the founding of NASA, most Americans say the U.S. should be at the forefront of global leadership in space exploration and believe that--even as private space companies emerge as increasingly important ...

According to a national survey, the majority of Americans think that it is essential for the U.S. to remain a global leader in space exploration.

The U.S.-Russian space partnership is one of technicalities, not of personalities. But Dmitry Rogozin is potentially toxic to this relationship from the standpoint of technicality. SpaceNews.com

Using Kepler, astronomers have spotted two superflares on a very young brown dwarf known as CFHT-BD-Tau 4. The two superflares turn out to be the strongest flares observed on any brown dwarf so far. The finding is detail...