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A five-year analysis of an event captured by a tiny telescope at McDonald Observatory and followed up by telescopes on the ground and in space has led astronomers to believe they witnessed a giant black hole tear apart a...

Milestone Prizes give five teams a boost to launch a commercial lunar lander by the end of 2016   --

Scientists on the Curiosity team have brought into question a recent report about potential trace fossils in the Mars rover's images of the Gillespie rock outcrop.

When is the best time to observe the moon with a telescope? Most astronomy neophytes might say it is when it's at full phase, but that's probably the worst time to look at it! The best time to see the moon is during its ...

Despite earlier reports of a possible detection, a joint analysis of data from ESA's Planck satellite and the ground-based BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments has found no conclusive evidence of primordial gravitational wa...

The signal that scientists with the BICEP2 experiment believed to be a sign of inflation in the early universe was actually light from interstellar dust. Today, scientists with BICEP2 and the Planck satellite announced t...

The head of Boeing said Jan. 28 that SpaceX's growing presence in the space industry will force his company to be more competitive in some segments of the market, but that Boeing would retain its edge in more advanced se...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Four different passes by the Aqua satellite over the course of a day results in this stitched together image of the fires that span across central Africa. The polar orbit of the Aqua s...

Satellite fleet operator SES said it's likely to trade its mid-year launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a slot later in the year rather than be the first to fly a Falcon 9 with Merlin 1D engines adjusted for impro...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

NWA 7034, a meteorite found a few years ago in the Moroccan desert, is like no other rock ever found on Earth. It's been shown to be a 4.4 billion-year-old chunk of the Martian crust, and according to a new analysis, roc...

NASA has launched several sounding rockets for scientific research in 2015. See the spectacular photos of these small rocket launches here.

Two American spaceflight companies are quietly competing in a space race for the new era. SpaceX and Boeing are vying to become the first private firms to fly astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA someti...

When more than 100 million people on Earth tune in for the Super Bowl kick-off this Sunday, NASA's astronauts in space will probably be sleeping. But they might wake up to catch the end of the game live.

Seven thousand year-old rock paintings in the Sahara desert have, somewhat serendipitously, helped uncover evidence of ancient lake beds.

The X Prize Foundation awarded more than $5 million in intermediate prizes to five teams competing in the Google Lunar X Prize competition Jan. 26, but those teams' achievements varied widely, even in the same category o...

The level of mistrust and disdain between the European Space Agency and the European Commission shows no sign of subsiding despite European governments' reaffirmation that ESA would remain an independent body. The post D...

With 4km-long lasers, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories (LIGO) may detect cataclysmic events far from Earth. This film shows how scientists bridge the gap between the special language of astrophys...

ESA Space Science: Despite earlier reports of a possible detection, a joint analysis of data from ESA's Planck satellite and the ground-based BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments has found no conclusive evidence of primordi...

Planck and Bicep2 join forces but gravitational waves remain elusive

Europe is set to send its first 3D printer into the final frontier this year to experiment with zero-gravity manufacturing on long space voyages.

New images of Messier 51 (M51), SNR E0519-69.0, MSH 11-62, Cygnus A and RCW 86 have been released for this United Nations-declared event; each a composite of varying Space-based telescopes, including Chandra X-ray, Hubbl...