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Astronomers have studied the carbon monoxide in a galaxy over 12 billion light years from Earth and discovered that it's running out of gas, quite literally, and headed for a 'red and dead' future.

In the middle of the 19th century, the massive binary system Eta Carinae underwent an eruption that ejected at least 10 times the sun's mass and made it the second-brightest star in the sky. Now, a team of astronomers ha...

Understanding the sun from afar isn't easy. How do you figure out what powers solar flares - the intense bursts of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots - when you must rely on obs...

As a storm in the Pacific Ocean grew to a super typhoon and was downgraded again to a typhoon, watchful astronauts on the International Space Station kept people apprised of its progress through social media.

Do you want to help name an alien planet? Starting next year, space fans around the world will get the chance to vote on their favorite names for exoplanets and the planets' host stars.

Bigelow has hired former NASA astronauts Kenneth Ham and George Zamka to form the cornerstone of the private astronaut corps.

The private team operating NASA's ISEE-3 spacecraft aimed to fire its engine seven times on Tuesday to change the probe's trajectory. While the first burn went as planned, the group encountered problems with the second o...

(Phys.org) --Satellite launch company FireFly Space Systems, with locations in Austin, Texas and Hawthorne, California, founded early this year, is on a mission: Cut the costs for lighter loads going to low Earth orbit. ...

Despite the slip, the company's Cygnus cargo capsule is still expected to berth with the space station the morning of July 15.

In Homer Hickam's "Helium-3" sci-fi novels, the characters

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA's MESSENGER -- which orbits Mercury, and so is as close as 28 million miles from the sun versus Earth's 93 million miles -- is near enough to the sun to detect solar neutrons that...

Arianespace Press Releases: Arianespace's second Soyuz launch at the service of O3b Networks has been approved for liftoff tomorrow from the Spaceport in French Guiana on a flight to complete the basic satellite constell...

Cosmic dust is crucial to the birth of stars and planets, but how so much of it came to be present in the young universe has been a mystery --

The Cassini probe readies for its final act with new flight patterns that will get unprecedented views of Saturn and culminate in a final dive into the planet's atmosphere. Clara Moskowitz... --

Too cool and faint, many objects in the universe are impossible to detect with visible light. Now a Northwestern University team has refined a new technology that could make these colder objects more visible, paving the ...

A group of astronomers has been able to follow stardust being made in real time--during the aftermath of a supernova explosion. For the first time they show that these cosmic dust factories make their grains in a two-sta...

ESO Top News: A group of astronomers has been able to follow stardust being made in real time -- during the aftermath of a supernova explosion. For the first time they show that these cosmic dust factories make their gra...

Changes measured by the Swarm satellite show that our magnetic field is weakening 10 times faster than originally predicted, especially over the Western Hemisphere --

Roscosmos will upgrade the Soyuz and secure its supply chain by phasing out older versions in favor of the newer Soyuz-2 series to support the ISS.

ESA's Space Technology Advancements by Resourceful, Targeted and Innovative Groups of Experts and Researchers'(StarTiger) program has developed the prototype to land a rover using hazard detection and avoidance technolog...

In the middle of the 19th century, the massive binary system Eta Carinae underwent an eruption that ejected at least 10 times the sun's mass and made it the second-brightest star in the sky. Now, a team of astronomers ha...

Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has just completed the production of the two heat shields for the first European ExoMars mission in 2016....