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Sunspot AR2192 has erupted again with an X2-class flare on October 27th, 2014. According to Spaceweather.com, "since Oct 19th, it has unleashed 5 X-flares and a dozen M-flares."

For the first time astronomers, including SRON astronomer Woojin Kwon, have been able to capture the magnetic field in the accretion disk around a young star. The shape of the field was a big surprise. The discovery sugg...

NASA and Orbital Sciences Corp. held a pre-launch status and science briefings today to discuss the next mission to resupply the International Space Station scheduled for tomorrow Monday, October 27....

The rocket that will carry the Orbital Sciences' Cygnus cargo spacecraft will launch from NASA's Wallop Flight Facility on October 27th, 2014. This video highlights its trek from the Horizontal Integration Facility to th...

A large active region on the sun erupted with another X-class flare on Oct. 27, 2014--its fourth since Oct. 24. The flare peaked at 10:47 a.m. EDT.

Professor of Astrophysics Stephen Hawking appears to draw a link between the importance of the ISS and the colonization of the Moon and Mars in this video from 'Arrow Media.'.

Professor of Astrophysics Stephen Hawking appears to draw a link between the importance of the ISS and the colonization of the Moon and Mars in this video from 'Arrow Media.'.

The crowd at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood hung with "Interstellar" throughout its nearly three-hour length on Thursday night, even erupting in cheers at several key points during the film.

Astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata ask Stephen Hawking about micro-gravity and space colonization in this video from 'Arrow Media.'

Today: SpaceX-4 Departure Preparations: The Crew performed final cargo loading today. Once loading was complete, they egressed Dragon, closed the hatch, and configured the Node 2 vestibule which included installation of ...

On Aug. 14, 2013, the Japanese amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki discovered a "new" star that was subsequently named Nova Delphinus 2013. Now, astronomers have observed the expanding thermonuclear fireball from a nova th...

Belying its austere reputation for pure science and the search for fact, the European Space Agency (ESA) is branching out--into fantasy film-making.

Space launch operator Arianespace said on Monday that Europe had decided against hoisting two more Galileo geolocation satellites in December following a launch mishap in August.

An Antares rocket sits on the launch pad in Virginia and is go for launch tonight at 6:45 p.m. Eastern time (22:45 UTC).  The rocket will boost a Cygnus spacecraft--named the SS Deke Slayton, after the original Mercury ...

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory: These three images of C/2013 (Comet Siding Spring) were taken by the Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS) on September 26, 2014.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA is developing a new instrument that can detect heat and water stress in plants.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: Two galaxy clusters about 250 million and 50 million light years away respectively.

The International Space Station has to sidestep a piece of junk on the same day that a Virginia company is sending fresh supplies.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Goddard researchers want to define and track orbital debris using laser ranging to overcome shortfalls with passive optical and radar techniques.

In an unusually busy period of visiting vehicle activity at the international space station, one commercial cargo vehicle returned to Earth Oct. 25 as another was prepared for an Oct. 27 launch.

A fully developed elliptical galaxy is a gas-deficient gathering of ancient stars theorized to develop from the inside out, with a compact core marking its beginnings. This past August, for the first time, astronomers ca...

NASA has taken on space missions that have taken years to reach their destination; they have more than a dozen ongoing missions throughout the Solar System and have been to comets as well. So why pay any attention to the...