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Serena Auñón-Chancellor, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine's branch campus in Baton Rouge, is the lead author of a paper describing a previously unrecog...

Israel Aerospace Industries said Jan. 2 it will develop a national communications satellite for Israel called Dror-1. SpaceNews.com

Canadian startup SkyWatch has raised $7.5 million to continue developing software that makes satellite imagery more accessible. SpaceNews.com

New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published today in Science Advances shows that lava flows on Venus may be only a few years old, suggesting that Venus could be volcanically active to...

Observations from NASA satellites show the effects the Australian wildfires are having across the land, the ocean and the air.

The crater sits beneath a plain of hardened lava formed after the meteorite's impact.

Some astronomers didn't like the religious implications of a universe with a beginning. Their alternative was the so-called "steady state model."

Today - Rodent Research-19 (RR-19): The crew continued to perform Bone Densitometer scans using the Experiment box in the Life Science Glovebox....

Universities Space Research Association:

Venus may still harbor active volcanoes, with eruptions taking place as recently as a few years ago, a new study finds.

Only two weeks after it was canceled by NBC's Syfy channel, Amazon swooped in and rescued the epic sci-fi show "The Expanse."

The International Space Station orbits 255 miles above the Atlantic Ocean looking southwest over Cuba as the Sun's glint beams off the Caribbean Sea....

Using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), astronomers have conducted spectroscopic and imaging observations of the planetary nebula WR 72. They discovered hydrogen-poor knots in the central part of the nebula, w...

The next wave of robots to fly to Mars in 2020 could offer scientists an unprecedented understanding of Earth's closest neighboring planet. But there are still mysteries to be solved much closer to home, on Earth's own m...

If we discovered evidence of alien life, would we even realize it? Life on other planets could be so different from what we're used to that we might not recognize any biological signatures that it produces.

A conventional compass would be of little use on the moon, which today lacks a global magnetic field.

China's main space contractor is aiming to carry out more than 40 launches in 2020, including lunar, interplanetary and space infrastructure missions. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Betelgeuse is dimming, which could mean that it's about to explode. But scientists aren't convinced it's ready to blow.

The 2010s saw big advances in Mars exploration, but the new decade may bring even more exciting Red Planet news.

Using the High-Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES), astronomers from Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta have investigated the nature of young stars near the cometary globule CG 30. The new study, presented Dec...

NASA plans to launch a rover to Mars this July to hunt for signs of ancient Red Planet life. The new Mars 2020 rover's body is similar to that of the older Curiosity, but the two machines are different in important ways.