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Jupiter's largest moons don't go completely dark when the giant planet blocks their sunlight. The discovery could reveal more about Jupiter's upper atmosphere, which may keep the moons lit when they are not directly illu...

EMBARGOED until 00:01 BST, Monday 23 June A suite of Sun-gazing spacecraft, SOHO, STEREO and Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), have spotted an unusual series of eruptions in which a series of fast 'puffs' force the slow ...

When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft leaves the solar system, it will carry with it a digital message from people on Earth.

ISRO will launch France's Spot 7 high-resolution optical imaging satellite on June 30.

EMBARGOED until 00:01 BST, Monday 23 June 2014 Using a state-of-the-art ultraviolet camera, two astronomers from Northumbria University have obtained exceptionally sharp images of 'solar Moss', bright features on the Sun...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A new study finds firm evidence that nitrogen in the atmosphere of Titan originated in conditions similar to the cold birthplace of comets from the Oort cloud.

Today: Biological Rhythms: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Gerst removed a digital walk holter and actiwatch to end a data take for Biological Rhythms and saved the data to a medical laptop. Biological Rhythms 48 hours studies th...

We live in a vast, dark Universe, which makes the smallest and coolest objects extremely difficult to detect, save for a stroke of luck. Often times this luck comes in the form of a companion. Take, for example, the firs...

A private spacecraft is planned to skim through the atmosphere of Mars to gather dust and return home, without the difficulty of landing --

The Mars Science Laboratory has completed one Martian year (687 Earth days) working on the Red Planet. Its recent work, latest-self portrait and wheel damage work-arounds are discussed.

One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station used an 80mm lens on a digital still camera to photograph this image of the Turks and Caicos Islands....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year -- 687 Earth days -- on June 24.

SpaceX needs more time to work through an issue identified during pre-flight checks on Sunday (June 22), delaying the launch of six spacecraft for satellite-communications provider ORBCOMM until the first week of July.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

It might be worth any skywatcher's while to set an alarm for 60 to 90 minutes before sunrise tomorrow (June 24) to see a very pretty celestial scene.

It’s an ambitious goal: land three Cubesats on Mars sometime in the next few years for $25 million. And all this from a student-led team. But the group, led by Duke University, is dutifully assembling sponsors and pote...

With the Hubble Space Telescope aging and a newly revived Kepler Mission, many of the world's leading astronomers are championing the construction of The Advanced Technologies Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) is a...

The test marks the first successful intercept for the newest variant of the kill vehicle that tops the Ground-based Midcourse Defense boosters.

Previously, as with the longitude problem 300 years earlier for fixing locations on Earth, there was no unified system of reference for calibrating the heavens.

A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. This ancient stellar remnant is so cool that its carbon has crystallized, forming--in effect--an Earth-size diamond in s...

Solar jets are ejections from the surface of the Sun, where 1-10 tonnes of hot material are expelled at speeds of up to 1000 kilometres per second. Using space based observatories like Hinode and STEREO, solar physicists...

Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases: Searching online for the perfect new home has just got easier thanks to technology originally designed for use in Space. Leading property website, Zoopla...