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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion)....

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took this photograph of a sunrise over the western United States and posted it to social media on Aug. 10, 2015....

Square Kilometer Array: Dr. Maria Grazia Labate from Italy, system engineer on the SKA. Monday 7 September 2015 - Today SKA Organisation is launching SKA People, an outreach initiative aimed at showcasing the diversity o...

Thais were left stunned Monday after a suspected meteor streaked through the daytime skies in a phenomena that also quickly lit up social media.

According to a recent report by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), airports across the country are seeing record passenger numbers. Along with that comes congestion at airport terminals and runways, causing de...

Portrayed in this image from ESA's Planck satellite are the two Magellanic Clouds, among the nearest companions of our Milky Way galaxy. The Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160 000 light-years away, is the large red and or...

The scientists behind the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) telescope, last year made an extraordinary claim that they had detected gravitational waves, which are ripples in space-time. Ini...

An extremely bright fireball was seen over Bangkok, Thailand this morning (Sep. 7, 2015) at about 08:40 local time (0:40 UTC). Many witnesses saw and heard it, and it left a vapor trail as well. The video is impressive (...

Trained volunteers are as good as professional astronomers at finding jets shooting from massive black holes and matching them to their host galaxies, according to new research. Scientists working on citizen science proj...

Trained volunteers are as good as professional astronomers at finding jets shooting from massive black holes and matching them to their host galaxies, research suggests.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). It is of about the same mass and size as the Milky Way. It was fi...

If you liked the first historic images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, you'll love what's to come.

The Sentinel-2A satellite has been in orbit for only a matter of weeks, but new images of an algal bloom in the Baltic Sea show that it is already exceeding expectations. Built essentially as a land monitoring mission, S...

Space Science Image of the Week: Planck reveals an interstellar filament and our galactic neighbours, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

SpaceUpX? You mean SpaceX? SpaceUp at an unknown location perhaps? No! It is the name for the next edition of SpaceUp Paris, at the Ecole Polytechnique, that uses the X as its main logo. Registration just opened, so join...

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There will be no barbecuing on the International Space Station this Labor Day. But the orbiting lab's American crew will get a free day to relax and exercise after the excitement of welcoming three new teammates on Frida...

(Gold Communications) The 2015 Balzan Prizewinners were disclosed Monday.