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Dark streaks called recurring slope lineae (RSL) emanate from the walls of Mars’ Garni Crater in this image by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. These RSL are up to a few hundred meters in length. SAN FRANCISCO — The intriguing story of Mars’ mysterious dark streaks may have a new twist. The streaks, known as recurring […]

John Glenn stands in the NASA mailroom surrounded by thousands of letters sent to him. This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the original article . This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. News of the death of John […]

The European Space Agency’s Swarm satellites have revealed a so-called liquid iron “jet stream” within Earth’s magnetic core. A band of molten iron is churning slowly deep inside Earth, much in the same way as a jet stream, a new study finds. Scientists discovered the so-called molten jet stream while analyzing data from a trio […]

Mars as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in August 2003. SAN FRANCISCO — Life has left its mark just about everywhere on this verdant planet. Earth’s environment not only shapes those life-forms that evolve, but the planet actually evolves and changes in response to those organisms. So if life is lurking on Mars, researchers […]

Stormtroopers in the new Star Wars film “Rogue One” wade through the water of an alien ocean world. NASA scientists believe ocean worlds exist in our own galaxy, along with many other environments. Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered outside of the solar system, including some that might resemble the icy, desert and water-covered worlds […]

This composite photo of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse combines images captured by the Herschel Space Telescope in wavelengths of 70, 100 and 160 microns. The huge, red star Betelgeuse , which marks the hunter’s shoulder in the constellation Orion, may have swallowed up a companion star not long ago, a new study suggests. Betelgeuse […]

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the EchoStar 19 satellite is rolled out to the launchpad at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ahead of its Dec. 18, 2016 launch into orbit. An unmanned Atlas V rocket will launch a powerful new broadband internet satellite into orbit from Florida today (Dec 18) and you […]

Marines carry in the casket of former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn during a ceremony to celebrate his life, Dec. 17, 2016, at The Ohio State University in Columbus. The life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, was celebrated at a public memorial service  Saturday (Dec. 17), at Ohio State University […]

An artist’s rendering of an exoplanet in the Alpha Centauri system. Project Blue contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but when it’s the first ever image of an Earth-like exoplanet, a picture could be worth far more. That’s our goal […]

<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”33″> Atlas V and EchoStar 19 Credit: United Launch Alliance/Lockheed Martin A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the EchoStar 19 high-speed internet satellite into orbit on Dec. 18, 2016 from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. See launch photos in our gallery here. THIS IMAGE: The Atlas V is seen bathed […]

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches the EchoStar 19 communications satellite into orbit from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Dec. 18, 2016. A powerful new communications satellite, touted as the world’s highest-capacity broadband satellite for space-based internet service, launched into space Sunday (Dec. 18) to serve […]