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Black Hole Has Major Flare
The baffling and strange behaviors of black holes have become somewhat less mysterious recently, with new observations from NASA’s Explorer missions Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR....
Encountering Enceladus
Space Science Image of the Week: Cassini captured this view of Saturn’s moon Enceladus en route to its deepest-ever dive through the moon’s icy geysers
'One size fits all' when it comes to unraveling how stars form
A massive star, 25 times the mass of the sun, is forming in a similar way to low-mass stars, astronomers have discovered. The research is one of the final pieces...
Stars Bursting to Life in Messier 94 | Space Wallpaper
Around the Galaxy Messier 94 a starburst ring is at work birthing new stars into the Universe.
Traces of enormous solar storms in the ice of Greenland and Antarctica
Solar storms and the particles they release result in spectacular phenomena such as auroras, but they can also pose a serious risk to our society. In extreme cases they have...
No, a UFO named WTF is not threatening to destroy Earth
Now that we've got that out of the way, here's what will really happen when an unknown object enters the atmosphere next month
VIDEO: Planetary pleasure - Mars, Jupiter & Venus on show
Mars, Jupiter and Venus will be seen together in the sky this week, in a rare grouping of the three planets.
Image: Coronal mass ejection creates spooky Halloween sky
Eerie sheets and ripples of green hang above a deserted rocky landscape in this spooky Space Science Image of the Week. Spikes of neon and emerald seem to form the...
Common chemical makeup at largest cosmic scales
A new survey of hot, X-ray-emitting gas in the Virgo galaxy cluster shows that the elements needed to make stars, planets and people were evenly distributed across millions of light-years...
Solar Storms Are Often Missed By Earth Detection Systems
According to observations from the Tihany Magnetic Observatory in Hungary, the indices used by scientists to assess the Sun's geomagnetic perturbations to the Earth are unable to detect some of...
Astronaut's #spacerocks Contest to Award Space Patches for Song Titles
Can you name that tune — from space? Tim Peake, a British astronaut, will challenge his Twitter followers to do just that while he's on the space station. Those who...
For 'The Ordinary Spaceman' Clayton Anderson, Astronaut Life Is Anything But
When Clayton Anderson began to write about his 30-year NASA career, he was warned that astronaut memoirs are "a dime a dozen, and all the same."
This Week’s Night Sky: Stellar Ghoul Haunts Halloween Skies
The moon guides the way to a creepy crab, and a monster’s eye appears to wink at Earth.
Aftermath of Gargantuan Landslide Captured in Space Image
A huge chunk of rock and ice slid down Canada's Mount Steele at a dizzying speed, and a new satellite image reveals the stunning aftermath.
New report offers NASA framework for establishing priorities among Earth observations
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers NASA a framework for prioritizing satellite observations and measurements of Earth based on their scientific value.
Researchers observe phase transition thought impossible
An ultrapure material taken to pressures greater than that in the depths of the ocean and chilled to temperatures colder than outer space has revealed an unexpected phase transition that...
Charter marks 15 years
The International Charter Space and Major Disasters celebrates 15 years of free access to the best-available satellite images
Lunar maps let you explore the moon like never before
A new digital atlas covers the entire surface of the moon, marking craters, volcanos and Apollo landing sites
Lobster-inspired 3.8m super lightweight mirror chosen for Chinese-French space mission
The University of Leicester announces today the signature of a contract to develop an innovative new type of X-ray mirror for a telescope to be flown on an orbiting observatory...
Spacecraft discovers thousands of doomed comets
For an astronomer, discovering a comet can be the highlight of a lifetime. Great comets carry the names of their discoverers into history. Comet Halley, Comet Lovejoy, Comet...
Dates For Cataclysms On The Early Earth And The Moon Need A Rethink
Durable crystals called zircons are used to date some of the earliest and most dramatic cataclysms of the solar system. One is the super-duty collision that ejected material from Earth...
First direct electron observation in tera electron volt region
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Waseda University started global-leading direct electron observations in the extremely high-energy region of Tera electron volt (TeV, one trillion electron volts) using the CALorimetric...
Hubble Spots Biggest Sample of Faint, Early Galaxies (Photos)
With the help of a natural telescope, Hubble peered back in time to some of the earliest galaxies, many of which played a significant role in making the universe what...
Take a virtual tour of Gale Crater, an ancient Martian land of lakes
Since its dramatic touchdown on Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has inched its way toward Mount Sharp, the 3-mile-high peak in the middle of Gale Crater, finally arriving at...
NASA and the U.S. Forest Service team up to design better fire shelters
When 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots were trapped by a raging wildfire in Arizona in 2013 and died inside their emergency shelters, Mary Beth Wusk took notice. Then she took action....
Cryosat tracks Arctic ice freeze-up
Arctic sea-ice volume during the first two weeks of October was about 6,200 cubic km, according to the Cryosat spacecraft - tracking down from the high in 2013.
Best Space Photos of the Week – Oct. 25, 2015
From stunning Earth's horizon as seen from the ISS to a glittering Milky Way, don't miss these amazing space images.
'Martian' is No. 1 at the North American box office
Karen ButlerLOS ANGELES, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Matt Damon's space drama "The Martian" is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $15.9 million at the box office this weekend,...