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Pioneering Russian cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky dies at age 84
Russia's space agency says pioneering Soviet-era cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who made the first of his three flights to space in 1963, has died at age 84.
Data flows from NASA's TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet
Astronomers who study stars have contributed to the analysis of a planet discovered by NASA's new TESS Mission. It's the first planet identified by TESS for which the oscillations --...
Modi hails India's arrival as space power after it shoots down satellite in test
India shot down one of its own satellites in low-Earth orbit with a ground-to-space missile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, hailing his country's first test of such weaponry...
1st All-Female Spacewalk Scrapped Over Safety Concerns, Not Sexism
Two NASA astronauts were on the verge of making history this week by becoming the first women to take a spacewalk unaccompanied by men. Here's why NASA canceled that milestone.
NASA Chief Vows Quick Action to Return Astronauts to the Moon by 2024
NASA's chief says the agency is all set to meet a new challenge — returning humans to land on the moon within the next five years.
The Voyage to Interstellar Space
Portal origin URL: The Voyage to Interstellar SpacePortal origin nid: 442291Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 15:30Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: More than four decades after launch — having first traversed...
Mission to Europa Gets New Instrument to Look for Signs of Habitability
Amid technical and political hurdles, a veteran planetary scientist takes charge of a key part of Europa Clipper, a spacecraft targeted at the solar system’s most intriguing moon -- Read more...
Mars Had Big Rivers for Billions of Years
Mars had large rivers long after the planet lost most of its atmosphere to space, a new study suggests.
'Space butterfly' is home to hundreds of baby stars
What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Officially named...
Cosmic fireworks in the clouds: Volunteer detectives sought for Magellanic Clouds Cluster Search
Caught in a cosmic dance, our nearest neighbor galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, are cartwheeling and circling each other as they fall toward our galaxy, the Milky Way. The gravitational interaction...
The "Fantastic" Feeling of a Breakthrough: Q&A with Math Prize Winner Karen Uhlenbeck
The first female winner of the prestigious Abel Prize shares details of life as a mathematician -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Watch: Kentucky star P.J. Washington has cast removed before Sweet 16
Kentucky star P.J Washington appears to be headed back into the starting lineup after posting a video of himself walking without a cast Wednesday.
Traveling-wave tubes: The unsung heroes of space exploration
What do televisions and space exploration have in common? No, we're not talking about a cheesy physics joke; rather, this is the story of an often-overlooked piece of equipment that...
NASA defends scrapping all-women spacewalk
NASA responded to accusations of sexism Wednesday over its decision to cancel a planned historic spacewalk by two women astronauts due to a lack of well-fitting spacesuits.
Rivers raged on Mars late into its history
Long ago on Mars, water carved deep riverbeds into the planet's surface—but we still don't know what kind of weather fed them. Scientists aren't sure, because their understanding of the...
Mars Was Once Covered in Wide, Raging Rivers
Mars was very wet until suddenly it wasn't. And scientists still aren't sure why.
Second GPS III satellite arrives at Cape Canaveral ahead of July launch
The second GPS III satellite arrived at Cape Canaveral, Fla.,
Toast Japan's Hayabusa2 Mission with These Ryugu-Themed Drinks
The asteroid Ryugu may be surprisingly dry, but that doesn't mean you have to be.
Traveling-wave tubes: The unsung heroes of space exploration
What do televisions and space exploration have in common? No, we're not talking about a cheesy physics joke; rather, this is the story of an often-overlooked piece of equipment that...
NASA's Aqua Satellite keeps an 'eye' on Tropical Cyclone Joaninha
Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed a visible eye remained in Tropical Cyclone Joaninha is it continued moving through the central Southern Indian Ocean.
New GRAVITY instrument uses optical interferometry to spot exoplanet, a first
For the first time, the Very Large Telescope's GRAVITY instrument has observed a distant exoplanet using optical interferometry.
'Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars
Imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, this magnificent nebula resembles a butterfly floating through space and was formed by the stars that were born, lived and died in it.
These Scientists Want to Send a NASA Probe to Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io
When it comes to moons, potentially habitable worlds tend to steal the spotlight — but NASA may send a mission to a world that's certainly dead biologically, but far from...
Atlanta owner Arthur Blank: Julio Jones, Grady Jarrett will be 'Falcons for life'
Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank is confident the team can reach contract extensions with star receiver Julio Jones and defensive tackle Grady Jarrett.
Dash of Meson, Pinch of Baryon: Scientists Find Recipe for Ultrarare Pentaquarks
Researchers now know what's going on inside mysterious particles called pentaquarks.
Michael Raffl signs two-year extension with Philadelphia Flyers
The Philadelphia Flyers signed veteran forward Michael Raffl to a two-year contract extension, the team announced.
China's first privately funded orbital rocket fails
The rocket launch by the Beijing-based OneSpace has failed. The startup was attempting to send China's first privately funded orbital rocket into space.
Waiting for neutrinos
On Feb. 24, 1987, light from a supernova that exploded 168,000 years ago in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor of the Milky Way, reached Earth. Astronomers Ian Shelton and...