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170 years after the star Eta Carinae erupted and became the second brightest star in the galaxy, astronomers now have a theory for what caused this. The post 170 Years Ago, Eta Carinae Erupted Dramatically. Astronomers N...

A NASA scientist wants to create a planetary robot that would mimic what biologists do every day in terrestrial laboratories: look through microscopes to visually identify microbial life living in samples.

A fireball that streaked across the sky above the Thule Air Base in Greenland on July 25 was notable for not only the 2.1 kilotons of energy it released but also the stir it caused on social media.

"There are no continents and mountains below Jupiter's atmosphere to obstruct the path of the jet streams," said Jeffrey Parker from Livermore National Laboratory. Scientists from Australia and the United States have hel...

Searching for life in the vast universe is an overwhelming task, but scientists can cross one place off their list.

The agency awarded a total of $44 million to multiple firms developing crucial technologies for future space exploration --

Recent observations by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes of ultrahot Jupiter-like planets have perplexed theorists. The spectra of these planets have suggested they have exotic--and improbable--compositions.

Folding and refolding bed sheets to ensure they are squared can take a lot of time. It's the same with unfurling and folding up NASA's massive James Webb Space Telescope sunshield during testing. However, engineers found...

A pair of dwarf galaxies closely circling the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, were in the throes of merging into one when they fell into our galaxy. The duo is thought to hold enough gas to replenish ha...

Before commencing its mission to find exoplanets, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite took some impressive images of a comet in our Solar System. The post TESS Practices on a Comet Before Starting on its Science Op...

The Vice President provided more details on the Trump administration’s controversial plans to create a new space-focused military branch --

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Russian cosmonauts living and working on the International Space Station will venture outside Wednesday, Aug. 15, for a spacewalk expected to last about six hours. Live coverage of the excursion will air on NASA Televisi...

Google is celebrating the accomplishments of the first known female Native American engineer, Mary G. Ross, today (Aug. 9) on the 110th anniversary of her birth.

The debate is over. The United States will have a Space Force as a separate branch of the military. SpaceNews.com

Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday (Aug. 9) unveiled a detailed plan for the military Space Force proposed by President Donald Trump. If Congress agrees to establish it, the Space Force will be the sixth branch of the...

The Expedition 56 crew members explored how human health and physical processes are affected off the Earth today....

Faced with growing competition and threats from Russia and China, the White House on Thursday said it will create the U.S. Space Force as a sixth, separate military service by 2020.

Scientists from Australia and the United States have helped to solve the mystery underlying Jupiter's coloured bands in a new study on the interaction between atmospheres and magnetic fields.

This image shows data from a massive observing campaign that includes NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. These Chandra data have provided strong evidence for the existence of so-called intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs...

Operations image of the week: comet Swift-Tuttle leaves in its wake a trail of cometary debris -- the cause of the annual Perseids meteor showers and a reminder of Earth's vulnerable position in space

Just as cars need fossil fuels to power their engines, the living cells that make up our bodies use food as a fuel source. To harness the energy in food every cell in our bodies contains microscopic biological machines, ...