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Dark matter, the mysteriously invisible substance that makes up about 27 percent of the mass in the universe, may not be as clumpy as scientists previously thought. In 2013, researchers with Europe’s Planck mission, which studied the oldest light in the universe, found that dark matter has lumped together over time through gravitational attraction. What […]

By Steve Spaleta | December 7, 2016 09:00am ET Light data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), which spanned over 15 million galaxies at a distance of 6 billion light-years from Earth, was used to create this new map of dark matter and 4 others. ESO’s Very Large Telescope was used for KiDS observations. Dark Matter […]

The U.S. Air Force’s WGS-8 satellite launches atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Medium rocket on Dec. 7, 2016. The U.S. Air Force has launched the newest member of the military’s core communications-satellite constellation. The Wideband Global SATCOM-8 spacecraft, or WGS-8, lifted off atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Medium rocket today […]

Reaching even the closest star to the sun would take tens of thousands of years using conventional propulsion — but an antimatter engine could cut that trip down to just 40 years, according to the company Positron Dynamics. In a new video by Speculative Films, scientists talk about the challenges of visiting Earth’s neighboring star […]

Astrophotographer Béla Papp was trying to take a photo of himself before clouds obscured the sky, and managed to capture a Geminid meteor as well. Image taken in Hungary on Dec. 11, 2014. While December’s supermoon will wash out the peak of this year’s Geminid meteor shower, you can still expect to see several bright […]

Images from the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites show that the Millennium Tower in San Francisco has sunk nearly 1.9 inches (50 millimeters) over a recent one-year period. The colored dots show targets observed by the radar — red indicates moving away from the radar and blue indicates moving toward it. San Francisco’s Millennium […]

The U.S. Air Force’s WGS-8 satellite, encapsulated in a 5-meter payload fairing, is mated to a Delta IV booster at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex (SLC)-37 ahead of a planned Dec. 7, 2016 launch. A U.S. military communications satellite will take flight today (Dec. 7), and you can catch all the spaceflight […]

<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31.5″> WGS-8 Launch: Close-Up View Credit: ULA A close-up view of the launch of the U.S. Air Force’s WGS-8 satellite on Dec. 7, 2016. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”32″> WGS-8 Satellite Launches on Dec. 7, 2016 Credit: ULA The U.S. Air Force’s WGS-8 satellite launches atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Medium rocket on […]

Astronauts and other crewmembers on the International Space Station will get to watch the new science fiction movie “Passengers ,” while in orbit.  Sony Pictures Entertainment announced today that it is working with NASA to send a digital version of the film to the orbiting laboratory. The movie centers on a massive spaceship carrying a […]

Former senator John Glenn poses for a portrait shortly after doing live television interviews from the Ohio State University Union building on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio. Former NASA astronaut and U.S. senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, has spent over a week in an Ohio hospital. Glenn, now […]