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The Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (NYSE:LMT) has been awarded a $96.7 million contract by NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre to provide the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument that will fly on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-R Series environ...

Second 'Great Spot' found at Jupiter, cold and high up Another "Great Spot" has been found at Jupiter, this one cold and high up. Scientists reported Tuesday that the dark expanse is 24,000 kilometres across and 12,000 kilometres wide. It's in the upper atmosphere and much cooler than the hot surrou...

Expedition 50-51 Crew Undergoes Final Training Outside Moscow Spoiler

ATel 10254: Discovery of an Apparent Nova in M81

20170410 I5 OC Meteor Spoiler This video was captured by my car cam on I5 South near Oso Parkway on 4/10/17 at about 8:58PM. I

Triangulum, Casseopia, and Andromeda Last night the sky was clear so Logan and I pulled out the starmap and flashlight and did some observing from the backyard. Recently I've been focusing on the Southwestern horizon simply because of the lack of line of sight obstructions, but decided to check out...

Asteroid (143404) 2003 BD44 in the constellation Leo is at magnitude +13.3 at 23:30 UT, 12th April 2017

Not your average science-based party, Yuri's Night at NASA's Ames Research Centre boasts three music stages (two in aircraft hangars), a high-profile programme of speakers, an airshow and a 13-metre-high 1950s-sci-fi-style space rocket art installation. The largest of all the global parties...

Title: Spectroscopic confirmation of an ultra-faint galaxy at the epoch of reionization Author: Austin Hoag, Marua Bradac, Michele Trenti, Tommaso Treu, Kasper B. Schmidt, Kuang-Han Huang, Brian C. Lemaux, Julie He, Stephanie R. Bernard, Louis E. Abramson, Charlotte A. Mason, Takahiro Mori*...

DLR simulates Mars' atmosphere in Göttingen Is the Earth the only place in our Solar System on which living organisms exist? Is there, for example, life on Mars? The goal of the European space mission ExoMars is to resolve this question. To this end, the atmosphere on Mars is being simulated at the Ger...

Fossils 'solve' missing evolutionary link mystery Scottish fossils that appear to solve the mystery of how vertebrate life came to move from water to land will go on display in an exhibition in Edinburgh. The fossils were found in the Borders and date from a missing period in geological history betw...

Yuanwang 7 space tracking ship will track October spaceflight When the Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft starts its journey next month to meet the Tiangong II space lab, it will be tracked by China's latest space monitor and communications system aboard a new tracking ship. Read more

Half of Earth's life may lie below While astronomers scour the skies for signs of life in outer space, biologists are exploring an enormous living world buried below the surface of the Earth. Scientists estimate that nearly half the living material on our planet is hidden in or beneath the ocean or in...

Title: Earth-based detection of Uranus' aurorae Authors: Laurent Lamy, Renee Prange, Kenneth C. Hansen, John T. Clarke, Philippe Zarka, Baptiste Cecconi, Jean Aboudarham, Nicolas André, Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, George Randall Gladstone, Mathieu Barthelemy, Nick Achilleos, Patric...

ATel 10253: Detection of a new X-ray outburst from the SMC Be/X-ray binary Swift J010745.0-722740, confirming the 1180 d orbital period