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Europe on Thursday will place a billion-dollar bet on a space telescope designed to provide the biggest and most detailed 3-D map of the Milky Way.

We present the first microlensing candidate for a free-floating exoplanet-exomoon system, MOA-2011-BLG-262, with a primary lens mass of M_host ~ 4 Jupiter masses hosting a sub-Earth mass moon....

NASA completed a series of high-tech can-crushing tests last week as an enormous fuel tank crumbled under the pressure of almost a million pounds of force, all in the name of building lighter, more affordable rockets.

When Comet ISON entered its zombie stage a few weeks ago, the effects were not only felt in the astronomical community, but also on astronomy tourists as the comet faded from the view of amateurs. German company ”Eclip...

A team of European astronomers, including EXOEarths member Alexandre Santerne (CAUP), used the SOPHIE spectrograph at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence (France), to confirm the presence of Kepler-88 c, an unseen planet ...

A 12-year study of massive stars has reaffirmed that our Galaxy has four spiral arms, following years of debate sparked by images taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope that only showed two arms.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: The Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) provides undergraduate students entering their junior or senior years with professional experience in space life science dis...

Sagan makes us confront the limitations of our mortality given the immensities of space and time presented to us by the cosmos.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory views the Sun in multiple wavelengths, each one revealing a little more about its dynamics. The views are compiled to reveal how different parts of the Sun appear under each wavelength o...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: The shortened names of two systems that will evolve into a rare class of binary stars in the future.

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA - Orbital Sciences Corp. is marching forward with plans for a spectacular night blastoff of the firms privately developed Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft on Thursday, Dec. 19 from a seaside ...

Using a billion pixel camera and 2 telescopes, the European spacecraft will scan every star at least 70 times during a 5 year period. This will create the most comprehensive guide to the Milky Way to date.

This space wallpaper is a color-coded topography map of Juventae Chasma revealed by Mars Express. White and red show the highest terrains, while blue and purple show the deepest.

There's a storm brewing in the world of U.S. weather forecasting, and - much like the hurricanes that meteorologists are trained to predict - there's not much anyone can do about it.

The dates correspond to when the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology plans to launch its next Earth observation spacecraft.

Today’s post is from Ivy Wong, who is delighted to announce our newest Galaxy Zoo project. Welcome to the extraordinary world of radio astronomy. Observe the Universe through radio goggles and discover the jets that ar...

With the space station cooling system hobbled and a commercial cargo launch waiting in the wings, NASA Tuesday prepared all options but said no decision had yet been made on whether spacewalk repairs would be needed.

The company's $101.9 million Space Act Agreement culminated with a free-flight test of a mockup of the company's Dream Chaser spaceplane.

6,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Puppis an enormous star pulses with light and energy, going through the first throes of its death spasms as it depletes its last reserves of hydrogen necessary to main...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R Series Program completed its next instrument, the Solar Ultra-Violet Imager, which is now ready for integration onto the GOES-...

A pair of engines, each capable of generating about 39,000 pounds of thrust, were fired for a combined 29.7 seconds.

The Orbital Science Corporation Antares rocket is seen as it is raised into position at launch Pad-0A, Tuesday, December 16, 2013, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, V...