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Hubble Space Telescope News: They may only be little, but they pack a star-forming punch: new observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show that starbursts in dwarf galaxies played a bigger role than expecte...

An astronomy organization will blast away the top of a mountain to make room for a giant telescope tomorrow (June 19), and you can watch the explosion live online.

Two Russian cosmonauts are safely back inside the International Space Station today (June 19) after spending more than 7 hours outside for maintenance and equipment upgrades on the orbiting laboratory.

Massive galaxies in the early Universe formed stars at a much faster clip than they do today -- creating the equivalent of a thousand new suns per year. This rate reached its peak 3 billion years after the Big Bang, and ...

ESO Top News: Today a groundbreaking ceremony took place to mark the next major milestone towards ESO's European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). Part of the 3000-metre peak of Cerro Armazones was blasted away as a ste...

They may only be little, but they pack a star-forming punch: new observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show that starbursts in dwarf galaxies played a bigger role than expected in the early history of the...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA is requesting the public and interested organizations to review and comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the agency's proposed Mars 2020 ...

A modest mountaintop blast in Chile kicked off construction of the largest optical/infrared telescope ever built on Earth.

Sierra Nevada Corp. will acquire space component and technology supplier ORBITEC for an undisclosed sum.

The "heart" of the James Webb Space Telescope hung from a cable 30 feet in the air as it was lowered slowly into the massive thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The"heart" of the JWST is the...

Astronomers in Chile are blasting away the top of a mountain to install what they say will be the world's largest optical telescope.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study in the 2020s.

In 2013, astronomers became aware the center of galaxy NGC 5548 had seemingly gone dark. Astrophysicist Jelle Kaastra and team now think they know why: a stream of obscuring gas blown by the action of the central superma...

The bright center of a distant galaxy strangely and unexpectedly darkened recently, and now scientists think the culprit was a rare, powerful stream of gas blowing in front of it, eclipsing its heart.

United Space Alliance (USA) has put a pin in its role in space shuttle history. In fact, it has put in 135 pins.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: As NASA's QuikScat ocean-watching satellite winds down a 15-year mission, its successor, RapidScat, prepares to build on its legacy.

A pair of spacewalking astronauts managed to install a new antenna Thursday outside the International Space Station, despite some equipment trouble.

An international team of scientists including a Virginia Tech physicist have discovered that winds blowing from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy work to obscure observations and x-rays.

Hubble Space Telescope News: Astronomers have discovered strange and unexpected behaviour around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy NGC 5548. The international team of researchers detected a clumpy ga...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a proposed spacecraft concept to capture either...

In late May, NASA's Swift satellite imaged comet Siding Spring, which will brush astonishingly close to Mars later this year. These optical and ultraviolet observations are the first to reveal how rapidly the comet is pr...

Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev spacewalked outside the International Space Station on June 19, 2014.