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NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that starte to cannabilze a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor, NGC 1317, just above it, about 100 million years ago, Supporting evidence includes the dark dust lanes characteristic ...

On April 2, 2014, the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 10:05 a.m. EDT, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured imagery of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation ...

NASA has cut all contacts with Russia except for cooperation aboard the International Space Station, according to an internal memo obtained by the online news site The Verge on Wednesday.

Mercury was long thought to be lacking volatile compounds that cause explosive volcanism. That view started to change when the MESSENGER spacecraft returned pictures of pyroclastic deposits--the telltale signature of vol...

An observatory in Chile has caught sight of a cosmic killer: a galaxy that has destroyed at least one of its galactic neighbors.

This video made me laugh harder than anything I’ve seen in a long time. Okay, except for some Louis CK videos. But for a non-comedian (allegedly)… this is hard to beat. --

China launched an experimental satellite Monday aboard a Long March 2C rocket from the Jiuquan space base in northwest China, according to official media reports.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth-observing missions will be launched into space in a single year.

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity recently passed its 10th anniversary exploring the Red Planet and embarked on what scientists called a brand new mission, but the trusty little rover's funding has been thrust onto uncertain...

If outer space is indeed a lot of nothing, than the newly named North Korean space agency may be aptly titled, albeit inadvertently

Citing Russia's ongoing violations of Ukraine's sovereign and territorial integrity, NASA told its officials today that the agency is suspending all contact with Russian government representatives.

The James Webb Space Telescope will travel to Lagrangian Point 2 (L2), 932,000+ miles from Earth. In comparison, the Hubble Space Telescope orbits only 347 miles up. Webb will take 29 days to reach its working orbit.

Just in case you aren’t already in French Guiana, here’s your chance to watch a European environment radar satellite take a rocket ride. Tune into the webcast above to see Sentinel-1A’s launch. If the schedule hold...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA has selected seven scientists as recipients of the 2014 Carl Sagan Exoplanet Postdoctoral Fellowships.

April the 15th: In the United States, it's a date dreaded by many, as the date to file taxes - or beg for an extension - looms large. But this year, Tax Day gives lovers of the sky something to look forward to, as the fi...

Efforts to send humans to Mars would likely expose them to health risks beyond the limits of what NASA currently allows, an independent panel of medical experts said Wednesday.

The centimeter-sized fragments and smaller particles that make up the regolith--the layer of loose, unconsolidated rock and dust--of small asteroids is formed by temperature cycling that breaks down rock in a process cal...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute have announced the selection of 17 new Hubble Fellows.

Stuff from Earth’s interior, combined with simulations, have one research team pinning down the Moon’s age to only 95 million years after the Solar System formed (which would make our closest satellite about 4.4 bill...

An international team of planetary scientists determined that the Moon formed nearly 100 million years after the start of the solar system (4.470 billion years ago), according to a paper to be published April 3 in Nature...

A mishap that occurred during vehicle processing led Sea Launch to delay the planned April 15 launch of Eutelsat's Eutelsat 3B telecommunications satellite.

As Congress mulls changes that would relax a ban on federal regulation of passenger safety on commercial spaceflights, one industry executive here came down hard in favor of the current hands-off approach.