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There are a handful of major science institutions around the world that keep track of the Earth’s temperature. They all clearly show that the world’s temperature has risen in the past few decades. One of those instit...

A new study has found evidence of glacier of water ice beneath Mars' north pole, enough to cover the entire planet in an ocean. The post New layers of water ice have been found beneath Mars’ North Pole appeared first o...

Scientists working with data from the Kepler mission have discovered an additional 18 Earth-sized worlds. The team used a newer, more stringent method of combing through the data to find these planets. Among the 18 is th...

SpaceX's brilliant train of Starlink satellites wowed skywatchers after launch. Elon Musk says astronomers shouldn't be worried.

As Americans around the world gear up for ceremonies and cookouts to celebrate Memorial Day today (May 26), astronauts in space are hard at work.

Have you seen Starlink? It all started, as all good breaking astronomical events seem to do, late on a Friday night. We got the notification first from veteran satellite tracker Dr. Marco Langbroek over in the Netherland...

From disrupted biological clocks to radiation and contamination hazards, Europe is running experiments on the International Space Station to take human exploration one step closer to Mars.

The small launch amendments made it into the SASC markup that the committee voted in a closed session May 22 to advance to the Senate floor. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers have carried out a multiwavelength investigation of a pulsar wind nebula (PWN), designated DA 495, to unveil its mysterious physical nature. Results of the study, based on observations using HAWC and VERITAS ...

Space Science Image of the Week: These filters for the ExoMars rover cameras will give us our science eyes on Mars

Europlanet Research Infrastructure: The first study of ultra-small bacteria living in the extreme environment of Ethiopia's Dallol hot springs shows that life can thrive in conditions similar to those thought to have bee...

NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft has completed acoustic and thermal vacuum (TVAC) testing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The acoustic test of the spacecraft that will carry the Mars 2020 rover to a ...

Europe has been in orbit around Mars for more than 15 years and is almost a year away from launching its first rover mission, but ambitions are already running high to go one step further: returning a sample from the Red...

(Chalmers University of Technology) Researchers from Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg present a new method which can double the energy of a proton beam produced by laser-based p...

(University of Utah) Gross Primary Production (GPP) in forests tells scientists how much CO2 these vast and remote systems are breathing in. For decades, scientists have used satellites to monitor the changes in greennes...