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Astronomers have used modern techniques to visualise data from ESA's Hipparcos space astrometry mission in three dimensions. The treatment of the data has offered insights into the distribution of nearby stars and uncove...

The International Space Station has taken a power hit, and spacewalking repairs may be needed. First, though, a replacement part must be delivered via rocket.

A replica of the only privately-owned watch worn by an astronaut on the moon's surface will soon go on sale for much less than the astronomical price tag that the historic flown timepiece sold for at a recent auction.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Physicists are getting a handle on the structure of the Universe, how everything is made of something else. Molecules are made of atoms, atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons, etc. Even smaller than that are ...

The new video, which the European Space Agency (ESA) released last week, reconstructs history's first-ever soft touchdown on a comet, which was performed by the Rosetta mission's Philae lander on Nov. 12, 2014.

After several years of taking legislative dysfunction to new heights, the U.S. Congress has shown signs in recent weeks of a return to some semblance of sanity. SpaceNews.com

A windy day on HD 189733b is nothing to take lightly.

The first annual Spacecom meeting, which is being held in Houston this week, aims to help Earth-based industries take advantage of space technologies and new business opportunities in space.

In this spectucular new image of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons team used a technique called principal component analysis to process the images taken on July 14th by its spacecraft's Ralph/MVIC camera. Their goal is to ampli...

People often criticize the amount of money spent on space exploration. Sometimes it’s well-meaning friends and family who say that that money is wasted, and would be better spent on solving problems here on Earth. In f...

In the beginning, there was chaos. Hot, dense, and packed with energetic particles, the early Universe was a turbulent, bustling place. It wasn’t until about 300,000 years after the Big Bang that the nascent cosmic sou...

"We tend to think of galaxies as steady beacons in the sky, but they are actually 'shimmering' due to all the giant, pulsating stars in them," said Pieter van Dokkum, the Sol Goldman Professor and chair of astronomy at Y...

The Expedition 45 crew is wrapping up the work week on biomedical science and Cygnus mission preparations. The orbital residents also worked maintenance throughout the numerous modules inside the International Space Stat...

The service is looking for new data from commercial providers to better map satellite movements and help detect threats to U.S. military satellites. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers at Yale and Harvard have found a galaxy with a heartbeat--and they've taken its pulse.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

It should come as no surprise that this year's list of the Top 5 Companies To Watch features the entrepreneurial startups that are making their presence felt throughout the industry and a launcher sector that is undergoi...

NASA administrator's recent remarks overlook his administration's cancellation of the Constellation program and its efforts to undermine SLS and Orion, writes a SpaceNews reader in Austin, Texas. SpaceNews.com

The ice-covered Arctic Ocean is a more important factor concerning the concentration of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere than previously assumed....

This past January, scientists led by University of Birmingham astroseismologists discovered a solar system with five Earth-sized planets dating back to the dawn of the Galaxy. Thanks to the NASA Kepler mission, the scien...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: