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Scientists using a European space telescope have created the best map yet of our Milky Way galaxy's magnetic field, a set of cosmic "fingerprints" that may lead to better understanding of how stars form, researchers say.

A NASA spacecraft has made a surprising find on the surface of the sun: a square-shaped 'hole' in the star's outer atmosphere. You can watch the video here.

NASA's next-generation Z-2 spacesuit prototype is an evolution ahead of its predecessor, the Z-1. See how NASA's futuristic Z-2 spacesuit works in this Space.com infographic.

While the plot of the hit Hollywood film 'Gravity' is fictional, the United States must bolster efforts to address the alarming amount of space junk, or risk grappling with potentially catastrophic collisions with debris...

Bill Nye -- the creator and star of the 1990s hit TV show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" -- thinks that entertainment can help raise scientifically literate kids.

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) with the House Science, Space & Technology Subcommittee on Space conducted a hearing on how to prevent a real life 'Gravity'.

The launch has attracted interest because of industry concerns that U.S. sanctions on Russia might spread to the broader satellite sector.

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A square-shaped coronal hole has been imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Open magnetic field lines cause these holes to form and gives high-speed streams of plasma a chance to escape the Sun pull.

The mission, which was scheduled to blast off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday morning, will deliver six spacecraft to low-Earth orbit for the satellite-communications provider ORBCOMM.

EchoStar CEO Michael Dugan said any possible effect on the satellite's construction or use would need to await developments in the lawsuit between ViaSat and SSL.

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II tests a Mobile Foot Restraint.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

(Phys.org) --Astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) recently found a surprise when studying some of the oldest star clusters in our galaxy...

Scientists at MIT have traced 13 billion years of galaxy evolution, from shortly after the Big Bang to the present day. Their simulation, named Illustris, captures both the massive scale of the... --

The results of the 2014 RAS elections were announced at the Annual General Meeting of the society on 9 May.   President Elected in 2013, Martin Barstow, Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science at the University of L...

Portions of rock powder collected by the hammering drill on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from a slab of Martian sandstone will be delivered to the rover's internal instruments....

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will get a firsthand look at work being done on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft during a visit to the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Monda...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EDT Monday, May 12, to discuss new research results on the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its potential contribution to future sea level rise.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: If all goes according to plan, a balloon the size of a football field will loft NASA's BETTII mission next year to study star formation.

The chief U.S. commercial spaceflight regulator said his 75-person office is bound to be overwhelmed by a rising tide of nongovernment launches and experimental space activities, absent a budget increase.

Deli meat, sporting equipment and colonial artifacts are just some of the random objects astronauts have carried with them into orbit. In this episode of The Countdown we share five of the weirdest... --