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ESA Top News: Technology image of the week: the composer of The War of the Worlds, encounters ESA's real-life equivalent of a Martian heat ray generator

Astronomers have detected the signatures of hundreds of comets disintegrating in a distant, chaotic solar system 63 light-years away.

The “exocomets” swarming around Beta Pictoris mirror those seen in our own solar system, but for a few surprising differences. --

While space debris was the uncontrolled adversary in the award-winning space thriller film "Gravity," space debris, also known as "space junk," is an ongoing real-life concern for teams managing satellites orbiting Earth...

The sun erupted with another significant flare today, peaking at 10:28 a.m. EDT on Oct. 22, 2014.

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 9:59 p.m. EDT on Oct. 21, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is always observing the sun, captured an image of the event....

Company executives and government officials at a commercial space conference expressed a mixture of optimism and impatience.

(Phys.org) --While studying the atmosphere on Saturn's moon Titan, scientists discovered intriguing zones of organic molecules unexpectedly shifted away from its north and south poles. These misaligned features seem to d...

U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated Dava Newman to become the next deputy administrator of NASA.

For decades, astronomers and cosmologists have postulated that the Universe is filled with an invisible, mysterious mass known as “dark matter.” For decades, the search for this elusive matter has dominated the field...

Cosmonauts Max Suraev and Alexander Samokutyaev went outside the International Space Station today. They completed what was supposed to be a six-hour spacewalk in just three hours and 38 minutes.

Expedition 41 Commander Max Suraev and Flight Engineer Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency worked outside in the International Space Station on Oct. 22, 2014.

A "twisted rope" of magnetically-charged energy precedes solar storms that have the potential to damage satellites and electricity grids, French scientists said on Wednesday.

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Himalayan Mountains and captured this image of snow on the ground on Oct. 16 at 0705 UTC....

The best look yet at nearly 500 comets around a distant star reveals these alien snowballs come in very different flavors, just like comets around the sun. These "exocomets" could shed light on what the solar system was ...

Astronomers at the La Silla Observatory in Chile took a census of comets around the star Beta Pictoris (62 light-years away), discovering they belong to two families.

That’s one big, black blemish on the Sun today! Rarely have we been witness to such an enormous sunspot. Lifting the #14 welder’s glass to my eyes this morning I about jumped back and bumped into the garage. (...)Rea...

NASA Breaking News: NASA Television will broadcast live the departure of an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) Monday, Oct. 27, as well as the launch and docking of its replacem...

Beta Pictoris is a young star located about 63 light-years from the Sun. It is only about 20 million years old and is surrounded by a huge disc of material--a very active young planetary system where gas and dust are pro...

ESO Top News: The HARPS instrument at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile has been used to make the most complete census of comets around another star ever created. A French team of astronomers has studied nearly 500 ind...

Federal forecasters say a brief but strong solar flare Wednesday morning temporarily blacked out a few radio communication systems before weakening.

The satellite would use a Luxembourg government-registered orbital location over Europe to provide X- and military-Ka-band capacity for Luxembourg's own use, as well as the free-access offer to NATO.