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A study simulating the final stages of terrestrial planet formation shows that 'hit-and-run' encounters play a significant role in the acquisition of water by large protoplanets, like those that grew into Mars and Earth....

Wilson suggested her proposal is only the opening salvo. "I expect there will be a lot of discussion about how to implement the president's vision." SpaceNews.com

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me at the CosmoQuest blog.

In a recent study, a team of Harvard University scientists presented a new means of ruling out alternative explanations for how our Universe began. The post How to Know Once and For All if the Universe Began With a Bang ...

NASA Lunar Science Institute:

Shanahan on space reorganization: "We're going to find the best way. There will be some hammering and arm wresting. " SpaceNews.com

A new study suggests a strange and surprisingly lively geological cycle for the small world --

ESA's star mapping mission, Gaia, has shown our Milky Way galaxy is still enduring the effects of a near collision that set millions of stars moving like ripples on a pond.

These noodles of neutrons may be 10 billion times stronger than steel.

Twelve people have walked on the moon, and Elon Musk won't add any Japanese billionaires to that number anytime soon.

Gen. Jay Raymond: "There's an explosion of things happening in the commercial industry. We want to capitalize on that." SpaceNews.com

Black holes form when stars die, allowing the matter in them to collapse into an extremely dense object from which not even light can escape. Astronomers theorize that massive black holes could also form at the birth of ...

Ever since astronauts began going to space for extended periods of time, it has been known that long-term exposure to zero-gravity or microgravity comes with its share of health effects. These include muscle atrophy and ...

An out-of-this-world mobile observatory, developed in collaboration with Nissan Design Europe in London, UK, was unveiled at the 2018 Hannover Motor Show this week, proving that the sky is never the limit.

One of the most surprising discoveries of the NASA's Messenger mission was the presence of unusual, bright, irregular and rimless flat-floored depressions on the surface of Mercury. These depressions, called hollows, are...

A month before the planned launch of the joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury, two new studies shed light on when the innermost planet formed and the puzzle of its chemical composition. The findings will be pres...

The RemoveDEBRIS satellite has successfully used its on-board net technology in orbit - the first demonstration in human history of active debris removal (ADR) technology.

The completion of NOEMA phase 1, the first phase of the NOEMA project will be officially celebrated this Wednesday, September 19th. IRAM and its partner institutes have completed the first, decisive step towards one of t...

Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, a member of the Expedition 56 crew currently aboard the International Space Station, examined her eye with a Funduscope with remote support from doctors on the ground.

A new space telescope designed to peer into some of the farthest regions of the universe could finally answer one of the most puzzling questions surrounding Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Last week at the Airbus integration hall in Bremen, Germany, technicians installed the last radiator on the European Service Module for NASA's Orion spacecraft marking the module's finished integration.

A study simulating the final stages of terrestrial planet formation shows that 'hit-and-run' encounters play a significant role in the acquisition of water by large protoplanets, like those that grew into Mars and Earth....