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Scientists have spotted an incredibly energetic, incredibly tiny "ghost" particle called a neutrino flying through Antarctic ice and traced it back to its origins to a specific blazar, but why does it matter?

The White House nominated a veteran Senate aide with little space experience to be NASA's deputy administrator July 12, a month after the agency's administrator said he wanted someone with technical expertise for the job...

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Thursday's announcement of the intended nomination by President Donald Trump of James Morhard to serve as the agency's deputy administrator:

"We are going to need a bigger boat," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said July 12, quoting the 1975 movie Jaws as a metaphor for the challenge of handling 5G needs. "Or in our case, more spectrum." SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

The small-satellite launch provider Rocket Lab plans to build a new launch site in the United States, the company announced on Tuesday (July 10).

Could pits hold evidence of ancient Mars life?

The combined new data from the Gaia and Hubble Space Telescope data are in serious conflict with the Cosmic Microwave Background data," said Planck team member George Efstathiou of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology in Ca...

On July 12, 2018, researchers announced that they had traced a high-energy neutrino to its extragalactic source for the first time, using a system of detectors buried in Antarctic ice. See images related to the big disco...

The VERITAS array has confirmed the detection of high-energy gamma rays from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole located in a distant galaxy, TXS 0506+056. While these detections are relatively common for VERITAS, ...

ESA Science & Technology :

Astronomers have traced a high-energy neutrino to its cosmic source for the first time ever, solving a century-old mystery in the process.

Using the power and synergy of two space telescopes, astronomers have made the most precise measurement to date of the universe's expansion rate.

Expedition 56 crew members are transferring cargo in and out of U.S. and Russian cargo ships today. Two astronauts are also planning to release a U.S. resupply ship on Sunday ending its mission at the International Space...

Water-bearing minerals reveal that Earth's mantle could hold more water than all its oceans. Researchers now ask: Where did it all come from? A couple hundred pebble-size diamonds, plucked from Brazilian mud, sit inside ...

For the first time ever, scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the source of a high-energy neutrino from outside our galaxy.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

"So far, people have focused on binary neutron stars as a way of measuring the Hubble constant with gravitational waves," says Salvatore Vitale, assistant professor of physics at MIT. "We've shown there is another type o...

SDO provides insights on the structure of the sun's magnetic field, as well as how energy is transferred from the sun into space.

Scaled Composites has been aiming toward commercial spaceflight for more than a decade.

After a successful launch on April 18, 2018, NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is currently undergoing a series of commissioning tests before it begins searching for planets. The TES...